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Africa’s Green Superpower: Podcast

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The Financial Times   |  6 oct. 2021

Following on from the Finacial Times Big read, David Pilling’s discusses The Afrcian Conservation Development Group and Gabon’s environmental leadership on the FT News Briefing Podcast.

Africa’s Green Superpower: Podcast

Africa’s Green Superpower: Podcast

Today, we’re gonna take you to the Congo Basin rainforest. Our Africa editor David Pilling went there to find out about a radical plan to create value from preserving the rainforest. The problem at the moment is that the forest is really valued at zero. And when you value something at zero, the incentive is to chop it down and turn it into something that is worth something.

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