DRC natural resources review press of Wednesday, June 19, 2013

"50 to 60% of elephants are being decimated in the DRC over the past decade," announces the newspaper le Phare quoting Nicolas Hulot, special envoy of French President Francois Hollande for the protection of the planet, which hosted a press conference yesterday Tuesday at the Embassy of France in Kinshasa. "Poaching has changed scale, we now reached a level of organized crime (...) with practically means war, he added," the newspaper said.

Reporting the same press conference, the newspaper the Potentiel notes : "Nicolas Hulot awareness of climate change" and stressed that "the sustainability of the world of tomorrow will depend on the sound management of environmental resources today." For everyday, so this is an alarm bell What drew Nicolas Hulot, whose ultimate objective of his mission is to bring the proposals on the table Hollande to implement a more effective diplomacy oriented support issues "universal." After Africa, Nicolas Hulot will continue to raise awareness and discussion in China, Thailand, the United States. There, says tabloid environmentalist try to convince upstream to find the problems of poaching, talking with applicants ivories countries to stop asking.

Until the work of Nicolas Hulot succeed, the newspaper Potentiel reports at the initiative of the Ministry of Environment, Fair Green Economy (FEVERT) Kinshasa opened yesterday Tuesday, June 18, the Botanical Garden of Kinshasa. The newspaper pointed out that the second edition of FEVERT is under the theme "Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Social Inclusion: engines of sustainable growth." The aim is to support the transition to a more productive way, equitable and sustainable through the extension of the concept of "green economy" as an engine of sustainable development, facilitate exchanges and networking of social, economic and environmental actors; promote entrepreneurship in the green economy and support, awareness of self-care, while respecting the environment.

On another issue, citing the contract stabilization Regideso, the newspaper Potentiel reports that the "industry experts agree on trimming goals." These experts water sector and those of the Government met in a workshop to review the objectives of the contracts, including performance contract with the Government in February 2012 and the service contract with the / SDE Finagestion Group in December same year.