The Congo Basin Blue Fund at COP 26: the latest orientations

The Commission has been working for several months on the preparation of the COP 26 with its technical and financial partners, including Brazzaville Foundation and its Founding Chairman Jean-Yves Ollivier, also ambassador of the Congo Basin Blue Fund (F2BC), in order to plead the African and global issue of the preservation of the Congo Basin.

The meeting, held in hybrid format, was attended by CBCC technical teams, focal points from CBCC member countries, and Brazzaville Foundation's Chief Executive , Richard Amalvy. Madame la Ministre conveyed the orientations of SEM Denis Sassou N'Guesso, President of the Republic of Congo, including the importance of transversality in the various preparatory works of the Commission's member states. In this case, the thematic pleas that will animate the various parallel workshops of the pavilion must be developed by the ministries in question, and derive from solutions based on nature and notions of sustainability.

Finally, based on the orientations given by the Minister in terms of advocacy, Richard Amalvy presented the technical details of the CBCC pavilion at COP 26, such as the surface area acquired from theorganisation committee, the visual and verbal concepts that will form this space, and the various administrative and budgetary aspects for which the Foundation is responsible. Within the pavilion, an important space will be dedicated to the presentation of the Congo Basin Blue Fund as a programmatic and financial instrument of the CBCC, and another to the latter, to enhance the mode of African governance desired by the seventeen member countries. The final concept will be presented to the summit of heads of state at the end of September.

Madame Minister concluded the meeting by calling on CBCC members and partners to cooperate. The African and global challenge of preserving the Congo Basin, the planet's second largest ecological lung, and the economic and social development of its populations based on green and blue economy models, must be a priority for the international community.