2023-06-09 15:46:15
This project, for an amount of approximately 2.5 billion FCFA (€3.8 million) from funds from the third phase of the Debt Reduction and Development Contract (C2D), was signed on Friday June 9, 2023 at 11 a.m. in the meeting room of the cabinet of the Ministry of Economy, Planning and Regional Development (MINEPAT) in the presence of the Minister of Scientific Research and Innovation, Dr. Madeleine Tchuinté, master of work of the said project.
The signing of this agreement between MINEPAT and AFD (Agence Française de Développement) constitutes an important and concrete step towards the establishment of a scientific infrastructure of international standard which aims to strengthen capacities in terms of scientific research in the Central African sub-region. For the operationalization of the project, an agreement will be signed very soon with the IRD, historical partner of MINRESI, within the framework of the creation and development of the Center for Environmental Biogeosciences (CBE).
With an inter- and transdisciplinary vision, and a regional and international scope, this center of excellence, unique in Atlantic Central Africa, will endeavor to study, at different scales of time and space, the interrelationships between climate change and land use through the dynamics of plant cover and biogeochemical cycles (carbon, water, nutrients, etc.). This work will deal in particular with the socio-ecosystems of the Congo-Ogooué forest basin and around the Gulf of Guinea, often bordered by mangroves in estuarine areas. The center’s flagship actions will concern the cycles of carbon and bioactive elements in order to better understand the mechanisms and extent of storage and greenhouse gas emissions. This will contribute to global models and initiatives to limit atmospheric CO2 and mitigate its effects.
Sources : Communication Unit/MINRSI
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