Kinshasa, March 30th,2026 (CPA).– The President of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Félix Tshisekedi, received on Monday in Kinshasa the Brazilian Minister of Foreign Affairs, Mauro Vieira, who conveyed an invitation from his counterpart Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva for a State visit to Brazil, as part of environmental cooperation between the two countries, according to the Congolese Presidency. “The head of Brazilian diplomacy praised President Tshisekedi’s commitment to climate issues at the core of his ‘DRC, solution country’ vision, before delivering an official invitation from his counterpart Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva for a State visit to Brazil,” the statement read. “Faced with global climate challenges, the DRC and Brazil, the two largest tropical forest basins in the world, are mobilizing around shared priorities. It is in this context that the audience granted by the President of the Republic, Félix Tshisekedi, on Monday, March 30th, at the City of African Union to the Brazilian Minister in charge of Foreign Affairs, Mauro Vieira, took place,” the Presidency added.
At the initiative of the two leaders, the DRC and Brazil have, since 2023, strengthened their environmental cooperation to form a united front (with Indonesia) as major holders of tropical forests. This cooperation was further consolidated during a bilateral meeting held on the sidelines of COP30 in November 2025 in Belém, Brazil. It aims to enhance their forest basins (Amazon and Congo) through biodiversity protection, sustainable forest management and the fight against climate change. The DRC, described as a “solution country” to climate challenges, has several programs aimed at preserving biodiversity and the global ecosystem, including “The Forest is Us” and the “Kivu–Kinshasa Green Corridor.”