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A Symposium & Workshop
The role of charcoal in health, local
environments, climate change, and poverty
alleviation initiatives
12 – 16 June 2011
Arusha International Conference Centre, Tanzania
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The link between charcoal, poverty,
health, and climate change is
undisputed, but how can sustainable
solutions for charcoal feature more
prominently in existing policies and
initiatives addressing poverty and
climate change?
Charcoal Facts:

Charcoal is the main
energy source for more
than 90% of subSaharan Africa urban
households

Current production
and consumption of
charcoal are mostly
unsustainable

Charcoal has negative
environmental, social,
and health implications
to those who produce
and consume it
Child labor is the rule rather than the exception for many charcoal producers in the Tropics
In the last century, charcoal production and use in the
Tropics has not changed nor has it gone away.
Sudan, 2009
Charcoal remain persistent and problematic, marred by
policies that have failed to achieve their objectives over and
over and over again.
Recent initiatives to
combat climate change
and alleviate poverty
present new
opportunities to
address the charcoal
problem holistically.
The Arusha Symposium & Workshop
in June 2011 will bring a diverse
array of charcoal researchers,
producers, policy makers, and
visionaries to begin discussing these
questions and to plan International
Charcoal Conference in 2012 that
addresses key issues and viable
solutions identified in Arusha.
México, 2009
Where and When?
Highlights:
600+ participants expected
in Arusha 2011
The Symposium and Workshop will
be held as a one-day event in the
context of the Joint 2011 Meeting of
the Association for Tropical Biology
and Conservation (ATBC) & the
Africa Section of the Society for
Conservation Biology (SCB Africa)
(12 -16 June).
The workshop will be in the form of
a post-symposium meeting
designed to allow presenters and
invited guests to continue
discussions stimulated by the
presentations, identify key issues
raised by the presentations,
develop a working group to address
key issues, and begin organizing a
2012 International Charcoal
Conference
Diverse set of world renown
experts on charcoal will
present in the Symposium
Delegates from key
Tanzanian ministries dealing
with charcoal (Energy,
Environment, Forests) will
attend
East African charcoal
producers will share their
experiences and visions
Presentations on the
potential for sustainable
charcoal to participate in
carbon markets
Opportunities for
collaborations and
networking
Planning for a 2012
International Conference on
Charcoal
Symposium presentations will highlight the many facets of
an old energy problem, but inspected under the light of
new and highly innovative assessment tools and
technologies
We will identify a handful of plausible
solutions & best-options for public policy,
appropriate technologies and sustainable
forest management
Expected Outputs:
Identify key issues
raised by the
presentations
Form a working group
to address key issues
Plan a 2012
conference that
focuses on solutions
for the charcoal
sector
Publish the
Presentations in
Special Issue of an
ISI Journal