Patrick Mavinga Nsakala
As we all know, our planet is increasingly experiencing climate upheavals due to man’s impact on nature, and one of the solutions to be considered is to preserve the forests, including those in the Democratic Republic of Congo, considered to be the second largest tropical forest in the world after the Amazon in Brazil. However, the DRC faces another challenge, that of socio-economic development, the solution to which could also come from exploiting its forests. The country thus finds itself at a crossroads in that, on the one hand, it is called upon to preserve its forest for the world’s ecological balance and, on the other, it would like to exploit it to ensure the socio-economic well-being of its people. This book provides rational, plausible and balanced answers to these problems through an in-depth study of the principles of international environmental law. It points out that as long as the DRC does not receive compensation for its failure to exploit its own forest in the global ecological interest, it will find it difficult to conserve it.
