This is the second in a two-part opinion series examining why the Congo Basin remains one of the most underfunded tropical forest regions in global climate finance.To read part 1, clickhere.
Part 1: Summary
In the first part of this series, the authors examined the numbers behind the Congo Basin’s chronic underfunding — the per-hectare finance gaps, the disbursement shortfalls, the market failures. But the disparity is not only a question of political will or misaligned incentives.
Beneath the funding gap lies a set of deeper structural deficits: hollowed-out national research institutions, diplomatic invisibility, media silence, and a carbon sink that is now showing the first…