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The latest industry news is quite char-ming, if you ask us!
⚡ IBI respectfully disagrees with Heatmap's recent article framing that no one seems to care about biochar as a climate change solution — as we have seen quite the opposite regarding the industry's enthusiastic growth!
🇬🇭 The Council for Scientific and Industrial Research of the Savannah Agricultural Research Institute has trained around 120 smallholder farmers, mostly women in northern Ghana, to adopt the use of compost and biochar in farming activities.
💸 IMEX is working with Cloverly, a platform for climate action, to give attendees the opportunity to buy carbon credits from a choice of impactful sustainability projects — including biochar.
🇨🇦 An advanced thermal processing plant in Canada would convert biosolids into biochar or biofuel.
🐮 A research team from the Clean Air Research Laboratory of the Korea Institute of Energy Research have developed a process that immediately converts livestock manure into biochar at livestock farms. Using the process developed by the research team, it is possible to convert 10 tons of livestock manure into biochar in a single day.
🌱 A cannabis farming cooperative in Ecuador’s northern Amazon will work with German specialists to optimize biochar production for carbon dioxide removal and soil regeneration.
🏙️ Biochar's role as a powerful tool with the potential to transform urban areas into greener spaces was featured in The Debrief.
🤝 Ronitron Company Limited (RONITRON) and Nex Energy Systems Global Limited (NESG) have officially entered into a partnership with Charoen Pokphand Foods Public Company Limited (CPF) to jointly spearhead the production of biochar, green hydrogen, green naphtha, and sustainable aviation fuel.
⭐ Biochar, and our friends at USBI, are featured in an NPR profile on a Missouri, USA farmer's application and process.
🚢 Evac Group is providing cruise ships with a solution that helps turn their wet waste from wastewater and restaurants into biochar.
📂 Zopeful (a platform offering high quality carbon removal portfolios) and Carboneers (a developer of smallholder farmer biochar projects in the Global South) announced a new partnership making Carboneers part of Zopeful’s Carbon Removal Portfolios.
🌳 Oregon State University Extension Service is exploring biochar as a solution to an oak death disease that has killed thousands of tanoaks on Oregon’s south coast.
🏗️ An interior building products maker delivers a 43 percent reduction in embodied carbon in their ceiling panels by using new technology that includes sustainably sourced, wood-generated biochar.
✈️ UK startup Firefly has announced its intention to commercialize a unique pathway to sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) production, using processed human sewage as feedstock for producing biocrude and biochar.
🔺 Novocarbo has announced the kick-off for its largest Carbon Removal Park (CDR-Park) in Germany to date. Stadtwerke Bochum is the first municipal utility in a major German city to use climate-neutral heat from biochar production to make its district heating network greener.
🇦🇺 Radial Timber in Australia has installed a pilot plant that uses pyrolysis technology, with the aim to harness the biochar, energy, and wood vinegar for community benefit.
🌍 The BIO4Africa project in Côte d’Ivoire is a four year, EU-funded project transferring small-scale bio-based technology to rural Africa by helping farmers produce a broader range of high-value products using local biomass — including biochar!
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