Climate and Environmental Sustainability

Climate and Environmental Sustainability

The Charcoal Crisis: How Eastern Congo’s Trade Fuels Conflict and Environmental Degradation

More than 90% of the population in the Democratic Republic of Congo rely on charcoal for their energy needs, driving the pervasive logging of forests across the country Deep within the war-scarred forests of eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, a silent industry is thriving. Not the sound of gunfire, but the crackle of burning timber.