ABSTRACT
Sustainable Development Resource Center
provides guidance to staff on environmental policies, links to relevant environmental information networks and training to member counties to protect and restore the environment. It also houses the African regional office of the
U.N. Convention to Combat Desertification
. Recently approved projects for sustainable development include
The Regional Environmental Information Management
project for the Congo Basin focusing
FIGURE 8.1
Protecting Africa’s forest and savanna resources is a growing priority of development agencies like the African Development Bank. In satellite image, only the dark grey area just under the bulge and on its southern coast is forest. The cloud-like lighter areas are savannas. The light gray area across the northern half of the continent is desert or sparsely vegetated (NASA Goddard Space Center Scientific Visualization Studio, with permission).
