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The latest industry news is quite char-ming, if you ask us!
AFRICA
🤲 New published research explores co-designing sustainable biochar business models with sub-Saharan African communities for inclusive socio-economic transformation.
ASIA
🌾 Researchers from South China Agricultural University developed biochar from banana straw to tackle cadmium pollution and fusarium wilt. The biochar effectively eliminated fusarium wilt pathogens, ensuring it was safe for environmental use.
🇮🇳 An Amsterdam-based group called Remove launched an initiative to support Indian start-ups working on carbon dioxide removal through a network of experts, international buyers and potential funding. Indian projects are expected to focus on biochar.
EUROPE
🌟 Big Valley has been selected as one of five fund managers for the 2024 Cohort of the International Climate Finance Accelerator to advance their Ag360 Climate Fund, focus on investing in circular business models and carbon removal technologies, including biochar!
🐄 The application of biochar in field trials on UK dairy farms has shown an increase of 51% and 22% in total soil carbon and total soil nitrogen respectively.
🚧 Cemex Deutschland has partnered with recycling service provider Alba to construct a new biochar production facility that will use biogenic waste to produce biochar, aiming to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from cement production.
💰 Denmark has rolled out a number of major initiatives to cut agricultural carbon emissions and restore nature, including biochar subsidies.
🚀 Carbon removal platform Supercritical announced the launch of its live pricing and availability function for global biochar projects in support of the transparency of the budding carbon removal market.
🛣️Recent laboratory trials are believed to be the first to look at the possibility of removing microplastics from road runoff using biochar.
⭐ Carbon Brief covers biochar’s role in CO2 removal on the heels of the 3rd international conference of scientists discussing negative CO2 emissions.
💩 A consortium led by Yorkshire Water has been awarded £2.3m from the Ofwat Innovation Fund (OIF) for its Advanced Thermal Conversion (ATC) Gasification technology. The Gasification process will convert sewage sludge into usable products — like biochar! — to destroy contaminants like PFAs and microplastics.
⌛ Carbon removal registry Isometric has announced a new protocol aimed at optimizing biochar production and storage for long-lasting carbon removal.
🌳 Onnu has applied for planning permission to build a “green hub” to turn felled trees and branches into biochar while also generating energy.
NORTH AMERICA
🔚 Airex Energy has closed the first round of funding that will be spent on developing the Montreal-based company’s biocoal and biochar projects.
📑 According to a report from the Boston Consulting Group, the contribution of carbon removal towards keeping global warming at bay hinges on political support, rather than voluntary demand.
🌽 Corn kernels, when mixed with biochar, may be part of a cost-effective solution to clean up toxic PCB chemicals found all around us
💧 A new technique for producing hydrogen from water, utilizing biochar and solar electricity, has been invented by engineers at the University of Illinois Chicago (UIC). It has been reported that this new method can cut the energy needed to extract hydrogen from water by 600%.
🌱 HEMPALTA, an agricultural technology company focused on harnessing the immense potential of hemp, announced a new biochar product derived from industrial hemp.
⚡ Biochar Now has received an ISCC Plus certification for utilizing sustainable wood in its patented process to produce biochar that produces high-integrity carbon credits.
📝An op-ed in Northern Ag Network names biochar as a bi-partisan solution for rural Montana, US.
🍇 Sitos, a California-based biochar company, plans to play an increasing part in carbon removal by working closely with a vineyard operation.
🏙️ The city of Minneapolis in Minnesota, US is building a $1.5 million biochar production facility — one of the first city-owned plants of its kind — to turn wood debris into biochar.
🔥 Greenhouse Management has published a “basics of biochar” article covering the 101 on biochar use in growing media.
OCEANIA
🏗️ Biomass Projects has plans to build the world’s largest biochar production on a 225,000-hectare plot in the Pilbara, Australia, that is overrun with the country’s largest mesquite infestation, which poses a threat to the local ecosystem.
💦 In a first for New South Wales, Sydney Water will see biosolids collected from an upgraded plant and converted into biochar, to treat byproducts of wastewater treatment, within its expanding north-west growth area.
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