Moderator:
Emira Woods, Executive Director, Green Leadership Trust

Panelists:
Samuel Yagase, Group of Village Organizations for Self-development
Dorothée Lisenga, Women’s Coalition for the Environment and Sustainable Development
Ovide Emba Botuli, Research Scientist, Institut Supérieur De Mbandaka, DR Congo

Hear from Dorothee Lisenga, advocate for women's land rights and winner of the 2018 WEDO Gender Justice Climate Solutions Award, Ovide Emba Botuli, research scientist specializing in the Congo Basin peatlands and Samuel Yagase Bayombe, community leader mobilizing rural communities for human rights and self-determination in the face of extractive industries in the Congo Basin.

This forum will address key issues of concern to the inhabitants of the Congo Basin Rainforest:

• DRC government auctioning of oil blocks in the rainforest

• Preserving the ‘Carbon Bomb’ of the peatlands

• Challenges of indigenous communities and frontline advocates living in the rainforest

• The responsibility of western nations in curbing pollution and delivering on their financial commitments to preserve the second largest rainforest in the world