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🤔 My two cents on the ongoing biochar permanence debate 🤔
🔥 The topic that keeps giving… how permanent is biochar? 📄 A paper recently appeared challenging that soil-applied biochar can be permanent for 1,000s of years. It generated lively discussions and several folks asked me for my take. 🧪 First things first: I am not a scientist, and this is a matter that needs to be settled 100% by science. However, the latest paper is explicitly a policy commentary. So allow me to weigh in. My main observations: ⚖️ The debate is not on wheth
Dec 9, 2025


📣 🇪🇺 Calling for tech-openness in the EU ETS 🇪🇺 📣
💬 The European Commission is currently consulting on the future of the Emissions Trading System (ETS) – and whether, how, and WHICH...
Jun 9, 2025


🇪🇺 Hot off the press: Key takeaways from CRCF Expert Group meeting on permanent carbon dioxide removals (CDR) 🇪🇺
👇 Another step closer to having the world’s first government certification scheme for durable CDR. I had the pleasure of participating...
Mar 20, 2025


😱 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, 2025


🧐 New blog: What does durability of carbon removal even mean? And why does it matter? 🧐
🌍 If you’re reading this, you already know that carbon dioxide removal (hashtag#CDR) is essential to achieving global net-zero targets....
Nov 10, 2024
![📊 [Poll] Is biochar carbon removal (hashtag#BCR) an open or closed systems carbon dioxide removal (hashtag#CDR) method? 📊🔦](https://static.wixstatic.com/media/8f3c9d_8ae9852800864f598fe313beb0352489~mv2.jpg/v1/fill/w_333,h_250,fp_0.50_0.50,q_30,blur_30,enc_avif,quality_auto/8f3c9d_8ae9852800864f598fe313beb0352489~mv2.webp)
![📊 [Poll] Is biochar carbon removal (hashtag#BCR) an open or closed systems carbon dioxide removal (hashtag#CDR) method? 📊🔦](https://static.wixstatic.com/media/8f3c9d_8ae9852800864f598fe313beb0352489~mv2.jpg/v1/fill/w_514,h_386,fp_0.50_0.50,q_90,enc_avif,quality_auto/8f3c9d_8ae9852800864f598fe313beb0352489~mv2.webp)
📊 [Poll] Is biochar carbon removal (hashtag#BCR) an open or closed systems carbon dioxide removal (hashtag#CDR) method? 📊🔦
🔦 Like many of you, I followed the discussions around BCR on Monday during the carbon removal and carbon farming (hashtag#CRCF) expert...
Oct 30, 2024
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