One of the following regions has the world’s largest tropical peatland, which holds about three year

Question

One of the following regions has the world’s largest tropical peatland, which holds about three years worth of global carbon emissions from fossil fuels; and the possible destruction of which can exert detrimental effect on the global climate. Which one of the following denotes that region?

Accepted Answer

The Congo Basin is home to the world’s largest tropical peatlands, along with Brazil and Indonesia. The peat swamp forest of the Congo Basin stores around 29 billion tons of carbon – approximately equivalent to three years’ worth of global greenhouse gas emissions – while the Basin as a whole absorbs nearly 1.5 billion tons of carbon dioxide a year.The Basin stretches across six countries:CameroonCentral African RepublicDemocratic Republic of the CongoCongoEquatorial GuineaGabonThe Congo Basin is one of the world’s last regions that absorbs more carbon than it emits. Hence option (b) is the correct answer.