Green charcoal and Biochar

Pro-Natura Newsletter December 2008 Member of IUCN, The World Conservation Union www. pronatura. org Pro-Natura International  15, avenue de Ségur  75007 Paris  France Tel (33) 01 53 59 97 98  Fax (33) 01 53 59 94 46  Email pro-natura@wanadoo. fr... More

Pro-Natura Newsletter December 2008 Member of IUCN, The World Conservation Union www. pronatura. org Pro-Natura International  15, avenue de Ségur  75007 Paris  France Tel (33) 01 53 59 97 98  Fax (33) 01 53 59 94 46  Email pro-natura@wanadoo. fr International Charity (Association Loi de 1901 JO 23. 09. 92 N° 39) Fighting Climate Change with Green charcoal and increasing Agricultural Productivity Founded in Brazil in 1986, Pro-Natura was one of the first Non-Governmental Organisations from the South to internationalise: after the Rio Summit in 1992 Pro-Natura International was born, with its headquarters in Paris. More than 400 high-level volunteers are mobilised in programmes in the global South, bringing together the fight against poverty with biodiversity conservation and the mobilisation against climate change. Two billion people must face the problem of domestic energy needs that pushes them to deforestation, adding to the problems of drought and desertification. To fight Less