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The latest industry news is quite char-ming, if you ask us!
AFRICA
๐ณ๐ฌ Bio-Logical, a Kenyan climate-tech startup empowering smallholder farmers to implement biochar use, has secured $1.3 million in seed funding.
๐ณ Amidst deforestation concerns, a community in North East Nigeria is transforming their waste into biochar for fertilizer use.
๐พ TheEastAfrican reports on a biochar project making big impact in the region with rice husks as feedstock.
ASIA
๐ฐ Energynews reports that Indian investors in the carbon credit sector are redirecting their funds to carbon removal projects like biochar, alongside afforestation, improved cookstoves, and REDD+.
๐๏ธ Green Valley Biochar has teamed up with Bton Group in an MOU to collaborate on supply and partnerships, focusing on using biochar in concrete production.
๐ด๐ฒ Zawya features biochar's potential for sustainable agriculture in Oman.
๐ง๐น A recent study reveals Bhutanโs potential to store 68% of its greenhouse gas emissions by converting crop residues into biochar.
โ๏ธ VeChain partners with Carboneers to offer carbon credits for biochar projects through blockchain, allowing individuals to offset their carbon footprints and earn rewards.
โป๏ธ Co-Energy has created a way of making plastic and organic waste into high-demand energy commodities like biochar.
๐ฒ๐พ Midori Climate Partner has entered into a partnership with MITSUSHO to co-develop biochar carbon removal projects in Malaysia.
EUROPE
๐ฃ๏ธ The Integrity Council for the Voluntary Carbon Market has established a new forum to ensure Indigenous peoples and local communities have a strong voice in shaping the voluntary carbon market.
โ๏ธ A consortium featuring Boeing and aviation investment firm Clear Sky is backing Firefly, a UK company using sewage as a biochar feedstock for sustainable aviation fuel.
๐ Shropshire Council announced ยฃ2million to develop a biochar pyrolysis plant in the UK county.
๐ชด Mills & Reeve partner with Aston University to produce furniture accessories made with biochar.
๐ชจ A University of Lincoln research study featuring biochar's ability to replace coal in steel production has been shortlisted for a Green Gown Awards.
๐ A Fulbright Scholar will explore turning biochar into batteries at the University of Bologna in Italy.
NORTH AMERICA
๐ฅ The 4 Corners Carbon Coalition has allocated $335,000 to four biochar projects aimed at combating climate change and reducing wildfire risks through carbon dioxide removal.
โป๏ธ A recycling company subsidiary is now offering biochar-blended compost.
โก A Rice University research team developed a rapid electrothermal mineralization process, including biochar, to remediate synthetic chemicals in soil and the environment.
๐ค U.S.-based Applied Carbon has raised $21.5 million, boosting their on-farm robot technology to produce biochar waste into biochar.
๐ฎ The University of Wisconsin-Platteville recently awarded five faculty research fellowships, with one recipient establishing biochar plots at the university's Pioneer Farm to assess long-term benefits and risks of biochar applications.
๐ธ High Plains Biochar is one of five organizations to receive a 2024 Climate Innovation Fund grants from Boulder County.
๐ The Carbon Chicken Project is working to solve pollution issues in the poultry industry with biochar.
๐ The Missouri Organic Association is producing and using biochar on four farms โ with plans to take the project to 76 additional farms over the next two years.
๐ฒ A land management company is exploring the opportunities of turning forest waste into biochar.
LATIN AMERICA
๐ต๐ช Inspiratus Technologies plans to build an industrial biochar plant in the north of Peru, the country's first.
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