Biochar in the News
What's hotter than your pyrolysis unit? This biochar and carbon removal news!
🐂 Bloomingberg says the world needs to be more bullish on biochar.
🔄 The World Economic Form shares why carbon dioxide removal will transform the carbon market — including biochar.
AFRICA
🍃 An environmental engineer is utilizing biochar to address deforestation in Cameroon.
🍊 Local enterprise WICCARE-Africa is converting biodegradable waste from nearby markets into renewable energy sources such as briquettes, biochar, pellets, ethanol and organic fertiliser.
ASIA
🐫 HyveGeo is startup aiming to turn the desert green — using biochar — with a pilot site in Abu Dhabi.
🌱 Carbon removal technology company G6T Group and environmental management firm Kyoto Network have agreed to co-develop, finance, and implement waste-to-value plants, the first of which will produce biochar.
🍍 Researchers at Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati have discovered a cost-effective way to eliminate toxic chemicals from industrial waste using fruit waste-derived biochar.
🚧 CS Tech Solution is recycling wood waste from construction sites and turning it into biochar; they launched their first batch of eco-bricks containing biochar in March.
🔥 Check out how a doctor-turned-entrepreneur is fighting forest fires with biochar in the Himalayas.
💰 Patch and Varaha have announced a new multimillion-dollar deal to support carbon removal projects, including biochar, that help small farmers across Asia.
EUROPE
✅ A biochar production plant has been recommended for approval in Shropshire, UK.
🏗️ Heriot-Watt University has launched a two-year study into the potential use of biochar as a building material to boost sustainable construction goals.
NORTH AMERICA
🌎 A team of UConn researchers is developing a fuller picture of biochar's environmental and agricultural benefits.
⬇️ Stanford researchers are testing biochar to expand carbon reduction, aiming for more accurate measurements.
📝 Washington State University has launched a six-year research initiative to study the combined effects of biochar and hemp rotations on agricultural crops.
👍 CarbonScape has secured a patent for technology to convert biochar into graphite.
🛣️ The Cook County Highway Department in Minnesota is looking to remove miles of invasive plant species and turn them into biochar as part of its invasive species management plan.
🌳 CMI Orchards and Royal Family Farming will break ground on The Soil Center later this spring, using biochar and other strategies to build sustainable amendments.
💵 Verde Resources Inc. announced the completion of its proof-of-concept project at the National Center for Asphalt Technology Test Track, resulting in the issuance and sale of the world’s first-ever Biochar Carbon Removal Credits from asphalt applications.
➕ A mixture of compost and biochar could boost carbon sequestration by crushed rock based on a new California grassland study.
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