{"id":7983,"date":"2019-09-23T18:25:14","date_gmt":"2019-09-23T18:25:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/africa\/?p=7983"},"modified":"2019-11-06T08:21:37","modified_gmt":"2019-11-06T08:21:37","slug":"president-tshisekedis-noble-ambitions-in-new-york-require-tough-action-in-kinshasa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/africa\/en\/press\/7983\/president-tshisekedis-noble-ambitions-in-new-york-require-tough-action-in-kinshasa\/","title":{"rendered":"President Tshisekedi\u2019s noble Ambitions in New York require tough Action in Kinshasa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><b>Kinshasa, 23 September 2019<\/b> &#8211; President of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) Felix Tshisekedi spoke today (Monday) at the UN Secretary General\u00a0 Climate Action Summit of the strategic value of the Congo Basin rainforest, its vast reservoirs of peatlands and its crucial role in storing global carbon emissions. Greenpeace Africa calls on President Tshisekedi to translate his noble ambitions for the forest into concrete actions: pulling out all illegal logging concessions from the rainforest and in particular declaring the peatlands a no-go-zone for all industrial activity.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cPresident Tshisekedi impressed international donors today in New York with great mastery of the climate science and the role of Africa\u2019s rainforest. Tomorrow in Kinshasa the citizens of the DRC expect tough action,\u201d said Irene Wabiwa Betoko, Senior Forest campaign Manager of Greenpeace Africa. \u201cThe new government must immediately cancel any new industrial operations in the rainforest and end the rampant illegal logging in it. It must further recognize that the key to real forest protection and national development lies with forest communities &#8211; not with international exploitative industries,\u201d concluded Wabiwa Betoko.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><strong><span class=\"s2\">Contact for interviews and more information<\/span><span class=\"s1\">:<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"p4\"><span class=\"s1\">Ir\u00e8ne Wabiwa Betoko, Greenpeace Africa Senior Forest Manager, <a href=\"mailto:irene.wabiwa@greenpeace.org\">irene.wabiwa@greenpeace.org<\/a>, +243 976756102\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p5\"><span class=\"s1\">Tal Harris, Greenpeace Africa International Communications Coordinator, <a href=\"mailto:tal.harris@greenpeace.org\">tal.harris@greenpeace.org<\/a>, +221 776730496<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kinshasa, 23 September 2019 &#8211; President of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) Felix Tshisekedi spoke today (Monday) at the UN Secretary General\u00a0 Climate Action Summit of the strategic&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":7637,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"p4_og_title":"","p4_og_description":"","p4_og_image":"","p4_og_image_id":"","p4_seo_canonical_url":"","p4_campaign_name":"","p4_local_project":"","p4_basket_name":"","p4_department":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[24,46,47],"p4-page-type":[14],"class_list":["post-7983","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-protecttheenvironment","tag-forests","tag-greenpeaceafrica","tag-drc","p4-page-type-press"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/africa\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7983","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/africa\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/africa\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/africa\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/africa\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7983"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/africa\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7983\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7985,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/africa\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7983\/revisions\/7985"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/africa\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7637"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/africa\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/africa\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/africa\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7983"},{"taxonomy":"p4-page-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/africa\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/p4-page-type?post=7983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}