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Workers carry out maintenance on an oil pipeline in Gamba, Gabon, on Wednesday, Oct. 12, 2022. A flagship of Gabons sustainable development efforts and backed by investments from the family offices of the Westons, Fricks and Sarikhanis, the Grande Mayumba projects plans include logging, cattle farming and eco-tourism, as well as an area 37 times the size of Manhattan set aside for conservation. Gabon took the lead in August 2023 by being the first African country to embrace debt-for-nature/climate swops after the AfDB’s report advocating for them. Photographer: Guillem Sartorio/Bloomberg via Getty Images
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Debt-for-nature: Distracting African leaders from long-term climate solutions

The continent’s representatives must resist climate swops at COP28

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