🇦🇺 Australia's biochar potential is bigger than most people realise.

🇦🇺 Australia's biochar potential is bigger than most people realise.

📊 When Andrew Lenton at CSIRO - Australia’s science agency - ran the numbers for the first national CDR roadmap, biochar came out stronger than expected.

🔥 In Australia, over 50 million tonnes of biomass residues are currently burned, landfilled, or wasted every year. Post-cyclone timber in the north. Invasive mesquite spreading across Western Australia. Bushfire-damaged wood across the country.

🪨 Unsurprisingly, biochar entrepreneurs are already looking to turn this problem into an opportunity.

🪵 Re-Vi on Kangaroo Island is converting parts of 4.5 Mt of bushfire-damaged timber into biochar, one of the largest CDR projects of its kind in the world.

🌳 Biomass Projects in Western Australia is targeting 500,000 tCO₂/year by 2028 using invasive mesquite, with Carbonfuture infrastructure tracking every single ton.

💵 According to the Australia New Zealand Biochar Industry Group (ANZBIG) 2030 Roadmap, with the right policy tools and investment, biochar could become a $1-5 billion per year industry by 2030. It could create up to 20,000 permanent jobs (mostly in regional Australia) and reduce Australia’s net emissions by 10-15%.

🎙️ Eve Tamme and I had the pleasure of chatting with Andrew Lenton, Director of CSIRO's  on the CDR Policy Scoop to unpack Australia's roadmap and understand what its CDR potential actually looks like, and what it will take to get there.

Be sure to check out the full conversation with Andrew Lenton to learn more about Australia's CDR potential:

▶️ Watch on YouTube: https://lnkd.in/eXEJZ-nb

🎧 Listen here: https://lnkd.in/eutQnDSA

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