February 2023, leaders from across Africa and Asia in Gabon for an international summit on the of the world's tropical forests, which experts say disappearing at an alarming rate. of the discussions focused on the Congo Basin, stores more planet-warming carbon than the but is disappearing. Congo Basin is home to the world’s largest tropical along with Brazil and Indonesia. The peat forest of the Congo Basin stores around 29 tons of carbon – approximately equivalent to years’ worth of global greenhouse gas emissions – the Basin as a whole absorbs nearly 1.5 billion of carbon dioxide a year. Basin stretches across six countries- Cameroon, African Republic, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Equatorial Guinea and Gabon. The Basin is one of the world’s last regions that more carbon than it emits. Hence option (a) is correct answer.