The Ministry of Environment, Nature Conservation and Tourism of the Democratic Republic of Congo obtained the support from the CASCADe initiative (Carbon Credit for Agriculture, Silviculture, Conservation and Action against Deforestation) funded by the “Fonds Français pour l’Environnement Mondial” (FFEM) and coordinated by the United Nations Environment Program. This initiative offers a support to project sponsors who wish to mitigate their Green House Gas emissions in the scopes of agriculture, bioenergy and forest in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

The aim of the initiative is involved these projects in the Clean Development Mecanism (CDM) of the Kyoto Protocol or in the Voluntary Markets of Carbon. A workshop for project sponsors will be organized from the 24th to the 28th of September 2008 in Kinshasa. Three days will be dedicated to the different aspects of the Clean Development Mecanism and the Voluntary Markets of Carbon. Two days will be specifically dedicated to the projects of the participants. Project sponsors are kindly invited to contact as soon as possible ONF International which is in charge of the initiative in the Democratic Republic of Congo in order to consider the possibility to get support from CASCADe and participate to the workshop.

Contact :

Julien Demenois

ONF International

Tel : +33 1 40 19 71 89

Mail : julien.demenois@onf.fr