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Burundi is losing its trees: how to break heavy charcoal use and tree clearing through climate reforms

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par Kikelomo Kila, Senior Lecturer in Law, University of Huddersfield

Burundi faces serious climate and environmental challenges. The biggest is the country’s overdependence on the use of biomass (firewood). The second is outdated agricultural practices that have led to deforestation. In turn this has increased the country’s vulnerability to climate shocks.

A landlocked country on the north-eastern shores of Lake Tanganyika, Burundi is extremely poor, with 76%…

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