Community action/DR Congo
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| Location | Democratic Republic of the Congo |
| Coordinates | 2° 58' 53.16" S, 23° 49' 20.15" E |
The aim of this page is to recognise, celebrate and encourage the self-empowerment of community agency networks (CANs) and community groups' activism for climate, environment and many other sustainability topics across DR Congo.
News
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Congo’s communities are creating a 1-million-hectare biodiversity corridor, news.mongabay.com (Dec 18, 2025) - Climate disasters displaced 250 million people in past 10 years, UN report finds, theguardian.com (Nov 09, 2025) — Floods, storms and droughts have uprooted people across the globe as rising temperatures intensify conflict and hunger
- DRC Joins Pacific Island Nations In Call For An International Crime Of Ecocide, stopecocide.earth (Oct 31, 2024)
- Young South Africans take up sustainable agriculture for food security, climatechangenews.com (Jun 02, 2026) — Aquaponics is seeing a revival in South Africa’s schools, boosted by government support and climate concerns
- Introducing Katcha: An African Democratic Innovation Network, demnext.substack.com (Feb 19, 2026)
- One of Africa’s Most Important Water Sources Just Got Some Very Good News, insideclimatenews.org (Feb 05, 2026) — Angola’s vast highland wetlands feed rivers that deliver freshwater to millions. They just gained global recognition that could help keep it that way.
- Why I choose to build commons, rather than being an ‘activist’, growingcommons.substack.com (Sep 06, 2026) — And why I think you should, too, Dil Green
- What Brazil’s supercentenarians can teach us about living to 120, positive.news (Sep 02, 2026)
- How a South African town cleaned up its polluted river using stones, wood and sand, theguardian.com (Aug 31, 2026) — Scientists say system to treat contaminated wastewater offers a model for ensuring food security in a fast-warming climate
Networks and sustainability initiatives
[edit | edit source]- Green Congo Initiative, added 15:00, 4 May 2023 (UTC)
International events
[edit | edit source]Global or International events
Sep 15, 2026 (Tue) — Free Money Day, Global invitation for people to explore, in a liberating and fun way, what it might be like if our relationship to money was a little different. Sep 15, annually, freemoneyday.org- Sep 18, 2026 (Fri) — Park(ing) day, global, public, participatory project where people across the world temporarily repurpose curbside parking spaces and convert them into public parks and social spaces to advocate for safer, greener, and more equitable streets for people, myparkingday.org
- Sep 21-27, 2026 (Mon-Sun) — Global Week Of Action For Peace And Climate Justice, climatemilitarism.org
- Sep 21, 2026 (Mon) — International Day of Peace, Globally shared date, Sep 21 each year for all humanity to commit to Peace above all differences and to contribute to building a Culture of Peace, internationaldayofpeace.org
2021-2030, UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration, International community action events
Community energy
[edit | edit source]Because of sunlight, potential for solar development is very high in the DRC. Already there are in DRC about 836 solar power systems, with a total power of 83 kW, located in Equateur (167), Katanga (159), Nord-Kivu (170), the two Kasaï provinces (170), and Bas-Congo (170). Also, the 148 Caritas network system has a total power of 6.31 kW7. W
Biodiversity
[edit | edit source]The rainforests of the Democratic Republic of the Congo contain great biodiversity, including many rare and endemic species, such as the common chimpanzee and the bonobo, the African forest elephant, mountain gorilla, okapi and white rhino. Five of the country's national parks are listed as World Heritage Sites: the Garumba, Kahuzi-Biega, Salonga and Virunga National Parks, and the Okapi Wildlife Reserve. The Democratic Republic of the Congo is the most biodiverse African country. W
News archive
[edit | edit source]- DRC Joins Pacific Island Nations In Call For An International Crime Of Ecocide, stopecocide.earth (Oct 31, 2024)
- Women in the Democratic Republic of the Congo are pushing for land rights, and curbing gender-based violence in the process, positive.news (Mar 29, 2024)
2011-2023
- Green Congo Initiative: a Youth Engagement for the Climate in the Heart of Africa, happyeconews.com (Apr 28, 2023)
- Mountain gorillas: The ripple effect of conservation, BBC News (Jun 20, 2022)
- How to capture satellite images in your backyard – and contribute to a snapshot of the climate crisis, The Conversation (Feb 23, 2022)
- Urban horticulture in the Congo reaps $400 million for small growers, cityfarmer.info June 10, 2011.
About Democratic Republic of the Congo
[edit | edit source]The Democratic Republic of the Congo's major environmental issues include:
- deforestation
- poaching, which threatens wildlife populations
- water pollution
- displaced refugees, who cause or are otherwise responsible for most of these problems: significant deforestation, soil erosion, wildlife poaching
- mining of minerals (coltan - a mineral used in creating capacitors, diamonds, and gold), causing environmental damage W
The Democratic Republic of the Congo (French: République démocratique du Congo), also known as DR Congo, DRC, DROC, RDC, Congo-Kinshasa, or simply Congo, is a country located in Central Africa. It is the second largest country in Africa by area, the largest in Subsaharan Africa, and the eleventh largest in the world. With a population of over 75 million, the Democratic Republic of the Congo is the most populated officially Francophone country, the fourth most populated nation in Africa and the nineteenth most populated country in the world. W
| Authors | Phil Green |
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| License | CC-BY-SA-3.0 |
| Cite as | Philralph (2014–2026). "Community action/DR Congo". Appropedia. Retrieved September 8, 2026. |