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DESTRUCTION BY NUMBERS LOGGING ROADS TO CLIMATE RUIN UP TO 25% OF GREENHOUSE GAS EMISSIONS COMES FROM TROPICAL FOREST CLEARANCE Up to a quarter of all greenhouse gas emissions are almost exclusively linked to tropical deforestation, often for conversion to pastureland and agricultural plantations. The figure excludes – because the numbers simply have not been calculated on the global scale – the emissions from forest fragmentation and degradation resulting from the creation of logging roads and other industry related infrastructure. The area of forest cleared for these roads can be wider than some of Europe’s major motorways. 34 BILLION TONNES OF CO 2 Predictions for future deforestation in Central Africa estimate that by 2050 forest clearance in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) will release up to 34.4 billion tonnes of CO 2 , roughly equivalent to the UK’s CO 2 emissions over the last sixty years. The DRC risks losing more than 40% of its forests, with transport infrastructure such as logging roads being one of the major drivers. 50 MILLION HECTARES OF RAINFORESTS BEING CARVED UP 50 million hectares of rainforests in Central Africa are controlled by logging companies. That is an area the size of Spain currently being carved up by logging roads and other infrastructure. 30% (some 15 million hectares) of this is held by logging companies in the DRC whose logging contracts were signed after a 2002 moratorium on new contracts or the renewal or extension of existing ones. 8% OF GLOBAL CARBON STORES 8% of the earth’s carbon that is stored in living forests worldwide is stored in the forests of the DRC – that is more than any other country in Africa and makes the DRC the fourth largest forest carbon reservoir of any country in the world. CLEARANCE FOR LOGGING INFRASTRUCTURE CAUSES 2.5 TIMES MORE EMISSIONS THAN SELECTIVE LOGGING ITSELF Greenpeace’s calculations, based on analysis of one 170,000 hectare logged area, suggest that emissions from logging roads and infrastructure will be 2.5 times greater than emissions resulting from the selective logging itself. The emissions for the area are estimated at an average of 10 tonnes of CO 2 per hectare.
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: WHAT A CARVE UP – KEY FACTS ABOUT DRC RAINFOREST DESTRUCTION AND KEY QUESTIONS FOR THE WORLD BANK 1 Putting it all in perspective 1 What’s at stake? 2 What impact has the World Bank had in the DRC? 2 Has it brought the logging industry under control and slowed its expansion? 2 A review of the 156 contracts under review – Greenpeace’s key findings: 3 Challenges for the Legal Review 4 Has it raised money for development and provided public services to forest dwelling communities? 5 Has it achieved rainforest protection for people, wildlife and the global environment? 6 What future for the DRC’s rainforests? 7 THE WORLD BANK CONDONES LOGGING AS A POTENTIAL QUICK FIX … IN THE NAME OF DEVELOPMENT 10 The DRC: largest stronghold of Central Africa’s globally significant Congo rainforests 12 The battle for the DRC’s resources: winners and losers 13 After the war, a new fight for control of the rainforest 14 DRC rainforest destruction: The World Bank is a powerful player 16 The World Bank holds the purse strings but who calls the shots? 16 Greenpeace investigations expose the flaw in World Bank strategy 17 Taxes or private income? 17 Social responsibility contracts are little more than licences to loot 17 The reform process: a catalogue of delays and failures 18 Without enforcement, World Bank-led forestry initiatives can make poverty worse 22 The moratorium has failed to prevent millions of hectares of logging titles being awarded 23 Nord-Sud timber cashes in on 3 million hectares of rainforest in breach of the moratorium 24 The Legal Review: will it launder illegal titles and leave corruption unchallenged? 26 The World Bank leaves the implementation of measures to mitigate social and environmental impacts largely to the industry itself 27 ITB sees forest management plans as a paper exercise ‘to please the World Bank’ 28 Unimplemented and unenforced, the Forestry Code will not stop rainforest plunder or contribute to poverty alleviation 30 CON IN THE CONGO – THE MORAL BANKRUPTCY OF THE WORLD BANK’S INDUSTRIAL LOGGING MODEL 32 Industrial logging is sustaining corruption in the DRC 33 How do tax breaks for Trans-M’s rainforest plunder support poverty alleviation? 34 ITB gets its logging titles thanks to friends in high places 35 NST ‘enjoys the protection of top political authorities’ from law enforcement 36 Has NST been rewarded for its wartime contribution? 36 Will politically ‘protected’ operations pass the legal review? 37 The World Bank group and German Government fund Olam’s illegal logging operations 38 Logging in rebel-held territory – paying the ‘administration’ 40 Industrial logging-led poverty alleviation is a charade 42 Tipping the scales: the cost of industrial logging far outweighs its contributions to development 43 Logging at Lake Tumba is destroying forest community resources 44 Further social exclusion for hunter-gatherer communities 45 Tree of Life: indigenous uses for the Sapele Tree 45 Taxing credibility: the revenue from logging will not go far… from Kinshasa 46 ‘Social responsibility contracts’ – the charity of loggers is a poor substitute for genuine development 48 Trans-M’s deals are a ‘swindle’ 50 Trans-M’s illegal logging is causing conflict in Lomako 50 Trans-M is destroying community forest resources in Kisangani 51
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