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🔥 Calling all my BIOCHARRIES 🔥
🫶 You know who you are. 📈 The 2025 Global Biochar Survey is now live. It’s our chance to understand how biochar is being produced, used, and scaled worldwide. The 2023 report highlighted: ◾Revenues from biochar exceeded $600M USD in 2023 (CAGR of 97% from 2021-2023) ◾ Revenues projected to grow further to nearly $3.3 Billion by 2025 ◾ The CDR markets for biochar carbon credits are thriving, the majority of biochar producers do not generate Biochar Carbon Removal (BCR) credi
Oct 12


🚴 Tour de Freiburg: Tyred but inspired
🔥 Biochar is about to ignite 🌲 That is my resounding takeaway from a long-needed catch-up with Hannes Junginger jungiger cycling through the gorgeous autumnal Black Forest. 📈 What has changed? Years of consistent growth and deliveries seemed to have finally turned skeptics around. And newcomers to the market - buyers and investors alike - are seeing biochar carbon removal (BCR) for what it is: the most shovel-ready, reliable, mature durable CDR technology available today.
Oct 2


🌍 Europe removed 150,000t of CO2 through biochar in 2024 🌍
📄 Just one of the many findings of the “2024 Biochar Market Report” which just dropped, now in its fourth edition. 🪨 The fundamental...
Jun 22


📽️ Have you seen “The Power of Biochar” yet? 📽️
😮 Over 15,000 people have watched this beautiful short-documentary already. It tells one of carbon removal’s most compelling stories:...
Jun 12


🔥 U.S. Senate proposes CDR Tax Credit for Wildfire Prevention 🔥
🏛️ Just a few weeks ago, I published an article on “How Biochar can Help Prevent Wildfires”, with some clear recommendations for the...
Jun 5


👀 On the lookout for CDR-tree huggers 🌲
📣 You know, the “nature-based solutions” (NBS) type. Specifically, the ones who are not afraid to get on their (ethically sourced)...
Apr 16
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📊 [POLL] What CDR Showdown do you want to see next? 📊
😮 The CDR Policy Scoop Biochar vs DAC Showdown on Monday was a huge success: more than 1,000 registered, 400 live attendees, 250 live...
Apr 7


😮💨 The gloves are off.
🤩 I am still buzzing from yesterday’s epic CDR Policy Scoop Showdown Special: Biochar vs DAC. 🏆 Votes aside, I think we can all agree...
Apr 6


🖤🌆 Biochar carbon removal and cities: a match made in heaven 🌆🖤
😍 Did you see what Minneapolis is planning? This summer, they will be opening a city run biochar facility in collaboration with Xcel...
Apr 3


👀 What you need to know about the upcoming CRCF workshop 👀
🇪🇺 The next Carbon Removal and Carbon Farming (hashtag#CRCF) Expert Group meeting (the 6th - but who’s counting?) takes place tomorrow,...
Mar 18


🥊 Let’s get ready to ruuuuuumble 🥊
🤫 No secret here: I love biochar. And I waste no opportunity to show the world just what an incredible, circular, holistic solution...
Mar 12


🇩🇰 Is the world’s most progressive CDR country on track? 🇩🇰
♥️ If you follow me, you know I LOVE writing about Denmark. No other country has done as much - comparatively - for CDR as Denmark: ▪️...
Mar 10


🤔 How much carbon removal will biochar deliver? 🤔
📊 In a recent poll, over 500 of you weighed in on what CDR tech will deliver the most volume in 2030. The clear winner: biochar carbon...
Mar 3


😶🌫️ New CDR Policy Rulebook: Don’t make it the star of the show 😶🌫️
🌲 In January, the bipartisan Fix Our Forests Act (H.R.471) was introduced by Representative Bruce Westerman into the new Congress. The...
Mar 3


😱 Stanford study: current methodologies systematically underestimate biochar’s durability 😱
🔎 Just a month ago, I shared a study proving that we had gotten biochar durability studies all wrong in the past. Now, a Stanford...
Feb 23


🇪🇺 Should biochar carbon removal (hashtag#BCR) be integrated into the EU Emission Trading System (hashtag#EUETS)? 🇪🇺
🔥 This is one of the hottest CDR topics currently being debated in Brussels and beyond. And its impact goes way beyond BCR and the EU...
Feb 10


😡 Here we go again 😡
🦴 I have a bone to pick: over and over again, modelling of carbon dioxide removal potential in policy circles neglects some of the most...
Jan 28


🌱 Turning over a new leaf
🔥 It’s no secret that I’m a die-hard hashtag#TeamBiochar. I’ve been involved with biochar carbon removal (hashtag#BCR) for years now on...
Jan 20


🤔 Quiz Monday: how much carbon will this pile of biochar remove? 🤔
[UPDATE] The correct answer is 16.5t of CO2 removed. The closest guess is shared by Martin Freimüller and Colin Malan Lindeque who both...
Jan 16


❌ New study: why we got biochar permanence so wrong in the past ❌
🪨 Back to one of my favourite, often heatedly debated topics. This time, the authors Hamed Sanei, Henrik I. Petersen, David Chiaramonti,...
Jan 7
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