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Opening the Waterways, Congo River ...

A video about the collaboration between VMC (Voies Maritimes CongolaiseS) and Maersk Line on deepening a section of the Congo River, enabling larger vessels to sail the ports of Boma and Matadi. This video is presented by Maersk Line and gives you an insight into the world’s largest container shipping company... By Maersk TV

Congo’s $80BN Proposal for the World's Largest Dam

Congo is considering building the largest hydropower station in the world, the Grand Inga Dam. The project, which would cost $80 billion USD and generate 40 GW of power, would sit along the Congo river just 220 kilometers from Kinshasa. If built, it would provide green power to millions of Africans, increasing the standard of living and positively affecting the environment. Nevertheless, a smaller project could benefit the region and be worth building. And eventually, once the demand is in place, a Grand Inga Dam could finally come to fruition... By Futurology TV

Minerals, Society, and the Environment in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), a Chatham house interview ...

The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) is pivotal to the fight against climate change, with the Congo Basin rainforest – 60 percent of which lies in the DRC – reported to absorb around 4 percent of the world's annual carbon emissions. The country also holds minerals critical to the transition to a low-carbon future, including cobalt and copper as well as lithium for sustainable battery technologies. However, the extraction of green minerals brings its own environmental and developmental risks, including pollution and stress on ecosystems and communities, and a complex policy challenge to ensure that benefits and jobs accrue to Congo's people. Despite producing 70 percent of the world’s cobalt, the DRC captures only 3 percent of electric vehicle battery value chains. At this event, HE Mr. Félix Tshisekedi, President of the Democratic Republic of Congo, discussed the country’s policy vision for balancing the imperatives of economic development and quality job creation with environmental protection and sustainability.

Chinese firm to invest $147m in copper project in DRC

China’s Zhejiang Huayou Cobalt Co will invest $147.2 million to build a copper project in Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), as it extends the exploration of its mining assets in the country, the company said in a filing to the Shanghai stock exchange on Tuesday. The project will be located in the Lukuni region in the south of DRC, and will have annual electro-deposited copper production capacity of 30,000 tonnes.