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This information brief recaps the opportunities for integrating poverty alleviation and climate change adaptation strategies into an ecosystem approach to regional forest policy and management, taking the Congo basin as an example. It first looks at the carbon capital of the Congo basin, and how this relates to climate change; furthermore, the paper identifies the need for safeguarding regional safety nets for adaptation, looks at the management solutions for contemporary issues and emerging opportunities for adaptation, and the potential contribution of forests to development priorities. The information brief concludes to show that there is great, unrecognized potential for climate change adaptation as well as poverty reduction and stresses the need for Policies that protect the weak and vulnerable while balancing multiple interests and activities contributing to human wellbeing and national development.