Transcript Democratic Republic of the Congo

INITIAL NATIONAL
COMMUNICATION
DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF THE
CONGO
Submitted to COP8 THROUGH THE
UNFCCC/ Secretariat, October 2002
CONTENT
1. Geography
 Location of the country
 Environmental overview
2. Socio-economic overview
3. Result of the GHG Inventory
4. Vulnerability & Adaptation
5. Difficulties, Recommendations & Projects
1. GEOGRAPHY
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Location of the country
Equatorial Africa
2.345.409 km2
Environmental overview
Central basin of Congo,
second in the world for
its flow on average
45.000 m3 /sec
2.ENVIRONMENTAL
OVERVIEW
• Vegetation: very complex spectrum, from
forests to savannas, which, according to
FAO(1990), includes 113.275.000 ha of
the forests.
• Biodiversity : many endemic species and
national parks
2.ENVIRONMENTAL
OVERVIEW (2)
• Climate :- a very broad range with
equatorial, tropical and mountains
- Precipitations : Between 800 to
2,000 mm / Yr
- Temperature : 15 to 20 ºC as
minimum / Yr ; 30 to 35 ºC as maximum
- relative humidity : seldom < 70%
3. SOCIOECONOMIC
OVERVIEW
• Population : 42.7 million inhabitants
- Urban population : 30 %
- Population growth rate : 3.4 %
• Economic situation :
# GDP : 138.5 $US of GDP / capita
# Agriculture = 53.4 % of val.GDP
3. SOCIOECONOMIC
OVERVIEW (2)
• Energy potentiality
# Hydroelectricity (only INGA ) : 46.103 TOE /yr
# Crude oil : 730.106 Barrels ( proved reserve)
# Coal : 720.106 TOE / yr
• Consumption of Energy
# Firewood and charcoal : 80 % inhbts
/ Yr
# hydroelectricity : 5 million MWh / Yr
3. SOCIOECONOMIC
OVERVIEW (3)
• Heath
# Malnutrition : 30 to 50 %
# Maternal Mortality : 200 – 300 Women /day
# Deprives of Vitam. A : 61.1 % of children
P.S. : AN ALTTOGETHER
CATASTROPHIC SITUATION
SOCIOECONOMIC WHICH IN WAS
WORSENED MORE BY THE WAR
WHICH HAS OCCURRED SINCE 1998.
4. RESULTS OF THE NATIONAL
GHG INVENTORY
• Methodology
# The data used were collected, by sector, by
the national consultants and other experts
attached to the public and private
Institutions, and NGOs. They were then
validated with ordinary statistical tests.
# The methods used is the revised 1996
IPCC guidelines.
RESULTS
5.VUNERABILITY &
ADAPTATION RESULTS
• Methodology
#The validation for Magicc Scengen
scenarios was centered in monthly rainfall
records since 1931.
# The software above was used in fine meshes
of 0.25° x 0.25° in concordance with SADC
# One obtained best simulations with the
models of Hadley (GCM Had CM2
MS 92a)
(5). Results
5. Vulnerability & Adaptation
• Agriculture
• Water problem in the towns
• To safeguard the capacity of sequestration
of the RDC
• To improve the lived daily of the most
stripped population
6. RECOMMENDATIONS
• The country has a Plan of Action
with 11 Projects about those
vulnerabilities :
# For Agriculture
# For Resource Water
# For its costal zone
# For Energy
6.DIFFICULTIES
• The revised IPCC Guidelines of GHG raised
difficulties for the access to synthesis tables
because of the use of Visual Basic with Excel
software ( Please more information in the Help
windows)
• Also, most of parameters are estimated by default
• Magicc- scengen can’t be used for fine analysis
• Inaccessibility of one part of the country because
of the war.