DRC natural resources press review of Wednesday, August 7, 2013

The Potentiel newspaper reports that  "the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) held yesterday, Tuesday, August 6 in the living Father Boka Studies Centre for Social Action (CEPAS) in Kinshasa workshop restitution of what has been the presentation of the Note Program ideas emission reduction (ER-PIN) to the seventh meeting of the participants of the Carbon Fund held in Paris from 24 to 25 June 2013. Kabengele To believe Victor, REDD National Coordinator, the restitution workshop aims to bring together all stakeholders involved in the development of ER-PIN that was presented last June in Paris at the 7th meeting of the Carbon Fund, which should be for The recall is an internal part of the World Bank. This fund finances activities to reduce emissions against payment. For REDD National Coordinator, the recommendation is the high level of referrals. To this end, participants in the 7th Meeting the Carbon Fund sought to know how the DRC has developed its level of reference and how realistic it is. because ultimately, this level of references should take into account national circumstances of the DRC. And in the opinion of the speaker It is now difficult for the historical deforestation rates hold still DRC, a country known to develop.

During the debriefing session, says the Prosperité newspaper, it is a note idea for a program of emission reduction and the DRC, which focuses on two districts Plateau and Mai-Ndombe in Bandundu province. According to the National REDD Coordinator, it is a matter of developing the program in this area which is about 12 million hectares. Several activities that address deforestation and forest degradation will be conducted jointly with several players on one side and the other, with the central and provincial government to supervise.

On another topic, Radio Okapi reported that the British NGO Greenpeace is deeply concerned by logging in Kinshasa, specifically in the town of Bandalungwa. In an interview Tuesday, August 6 at Radio Okapi, the coordinator of the association in the DRC, Raoul Monsebula is concerned that the government has never replanted in areas where trees have been cut. He cited Boulevard June 30 and woods that were located in the municipalities of Limete Kasavubu and Masina.

Returning to the statement released by Tenke Fungurume early in the week, the agency Ecofin announces that Tenke Fungurume Mining (TFM) announced in late July, have produced approximately 55,100 tonnes of copper cathode and 2,300 tonnes of cobalt metal in the form cobalt hydroxide, in the second quarter of 2013. Rapid changes in production that amounted to 30 June 2013, to 109 600 tonnes of copper cathode and 4,800 tonnes of cobalt metal in the form of cobalt hydroxide. Real booming for TFM boasts of having, DR Congo, "one of the largest deposits of copper and cobalt in the world housed in contiguous concessions covering over 1500km2" in the rich province of Katanga. The cumulative investment in TFM project located approximately 175 km northwest of Lubumbashi was approximately $ 3 billion and represent the largest private investment in DR Congo. The company expects to complete shortly the second expansion phase of this important project, which includes the optimization of existing facilities and increase capacity of the mine and mill. Construction of the mine and the plant is nearing completion and will TFM translate its ambition to increase the annual production to approximately 200,000 tonnes of copper.