'It's madness,' said Greenpeaceafric. 'These plans must be scrapped immediately.'
"The polluting Global North countries are refusing to transition away from fossil fuels and countries like the DRC are left to fend for themselves," Ayoub wrote on Twitter.
That argument was echoed by others on social media, who highlighted the case of Ecuador. In 2007, then-President Rafael Correa"set up a trust fund that the international community could finance to stop the country from exploring an oil block in the Yasuní National Park, one of the most biodiverse regions in the world," thereported."The goal was to raise around $3.6 billion. Years later, it had only raised $13 million.
Already, the mining of cobalt and lithium—minerals that are crucial to the green energy industry—has failed to improve living conditions in the DRC, as Faustin Nyebone from AICED pointed out on Monday. ."The country is ranked 182 in good governance, while its population lives on less than $1 a day even in the town of Walikale, where cobalt is mined.""With the auction of oil blocks, local communities are taken hostage by politico-economic elites," said Mutabesha."Congolese oil will mean the disappearance of immense parts of the biodiversity which 100 million people depend on for fishing, agriculture, and other traditional practices.
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