Latin America is the second region in the world with the highest production and use of charcoal per person. In Argentina, charcoal consumption is approximately 400,000 tons/year, equivalent to 1,000,000 tons/year of native forest wood. This technical assistance seeks to reduce greenhouse gases, avoiding illegal deforestation of native forests and proposing viable, sustainable and economically profitable productive alternatives.

This resource is only available in Spanish. The testimony that accompanies this resource is available here. An English overview of Climate Action Accelerator impacts in Latin America and the Caribbean is available here.