Archinect - News 2024-11-08T10:54:09-05:00 https://archinect.com/news/article/150160823/eu-to-pay-gabon-to-preserve-its-tropical-rain-forests EU to pay Gabon to preserve its tropical rain forests Antonio Pacheco 2019-09-23T19:34:00-04:00 >2019-09-23T21:31:04-04:00 <img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/51/51c5c166274f5454abc4f3673373a3c3.jpg?fit=crop&auto=compress%2Cformat&enlarge=true&w=1200" border="0" /><em><p>Gabon will become the first African nation to receive funding to preserve its rainforests to mitigate the effects of climate change. [...] Norway will pay $150 million to Gabon to battle deforestation and reduce greenhouse gas emissions. The deal is part of the Central African Forest Initiative [...] The partnership sets a carbon floor price of $10 per certified ton and will be paid on the basis of verified results from 2016 through to 2025.</p></em><br /><br /><p>According to&nbsp;<em>QZ,&nbsp;</em>since 2000, Gabon has created more than a dozen new national parks to help preserve the country's forests. Roughly 12-percent of the Congo Basin Forest, the second-largest tropical rainforest behind the Amazon, is located within Gabon's borders.</p> https://archinect.com/news/article/60932053/assembly-hall-for-the-2014-summit-of-the-african-union-by-workac Assembly Hall for the 2014 Summit of the African Union by WORKac Alexander Walter 2012-11-07T21:01:00-05:00 >2012-11-08T17:08:54-05:00 <img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/lp/lpj2ysrp9ni9zk4l.jpg?fit=crop&auto=compress%2Cformat&enlarge=true&w=1200" border="0" /><em><p>The proposal "L'Assembl&eacute;e Radieuse" by NYC's WORK Architecture Company has recently been named winner in the international competition to design a new Assembly Hall in Libreville, Gabon for the 2014 Summit of the African Union.</p></em><br /><br /><!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/loose.dtd"> <html><head><meta></head></html>