The Congo Basin Summit

The Congo Basin Climate Commission is a body set up in November 2016 in the Moroccan city of Marrakesh to promote blue economy programs and projects, helping to combat poverty among riparian populations and mitigate the effects climate change, with a logic of sustainable development. Composed by The blue economy is based on the use of natural resources, without damaging the ecosystems, without adverse impacts on climate change.

After the Signature

Angola's President João Lourenço signed the agreement after King Mohammed VI of Morocco, followed by host Dennis Sassou Nguesso and Rwanda's Paul Kagame. At the ceremony a protocol of understanding was also signed between the climate commissions of the Congo Basin and the Sahiel region, which aims to develop joint programs to promote sustainable development, combat poverty and environmental conservation. In Brazzaville, the presence of the statesmen of Gabon, Ali Bongo, Guinea Conakry, Alpha Condé of the Niger, Mahamadou Issoufou, Senegal, Macky Sall, Central African Republic, Faustin Touadera, and Sao Tome and Principe, Evaristo Carvalho.

President Joseph Kabila of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), the leader of the country that occupies about 40 percent of the territory of the Congo Basin, was represented at the meeting of statesmen by a member of his government. In the corridors there were those who linked Kabila's absence to the presence of Rwanda's neighbors and acting President of the African Union, Paul Kagame, due to a less good relationship with each other.

African nations are seeking to implement the global agreement to combat climate change and global warming achieved by 196 countries at the United Nations Conference on Climate Change (COP21) in the French capital Paris on 12 December of 2015. In the Paris pact, the international community pledged to limit the rise in temperature to a ceiling of 2 ° C above pre-industrial levels and to "continue efforts to limit the rise in temperature to 1.5 ° C."

The goal, according to the COP21 statement, is to reduce emissions of greenhouse gases, with measures such as energy savings, increased investments in renewable energy and reforestation.