Closing the DAta gap to develop Land Surface MOdels for COngo Basin forests - DAMOCO Ghent University
The importance of accounting for ecosystem services was massively acknowledged on COP26. More than 100 World leaders promised to stop deforestation by 2030, and the EU specifically pledged to focus on protecting Congo Basin forests. This revealed an increasing global awareness that protecting climate-resistant, diverse, carbon-rich and CO2-absorbing areas such as the Congo Basin, is one of the most important nature-based solutions to halt ...