Join our German Biochar Forum 2024 in Berlin and take part in shaping visions, policies and methodologies to integrate BCR into national and corporate strategies. Let us collectively develop sustainability strategies with biochar in order to promote ecologic transformation, foster environmental responsibilityand advance climate protection across the board. Let us discuss topics such as: the significance of carbon accounting combining BCR-MRV, LCAs and EPD/PEF to improve product sustainability aligning BCR methods with governmental monitoring and evaluation systems including biochar in sustainable urban development financing solutions for biochar projects and integration of CDR/BCR into business models Join us in shaping a sustainable future with biochar - on November 18 and 19 in Berlin! While it is imperative to phase out fossil fuels and drastically reduce emissions as fast as possible, the only way to reach our climate goals is additional carbon dioxide removal (CDR) from the atmosphere. Biochar carbon removal (BCR) is a CDR technology that offers several distinguished advantages: it is readily available and technologically mature (TRL 8-9), it comes with an established and reliable measuring, reporting and verification (MRV) system, and biochar is a valuable product with a multitude of material applications. Biochar-based C-sink certificates are already being traded on the voluntary market. To further advance CDR technology it is essential to develop methodologies for comparing, accounting, and integrating BCR in relevant carbon management and accounting frameworks. Since the EU and its member states currently develop carbon management and carbon removal strategies it can be expected that the currently voluntary CDR market will be transformed into a more regulated and much larger international endeavor. This leads to higher demand for BCR, a more secure outlook in terms of financing and thus promotes a quicker scale-up of BCR production capacity. We must make sure that this development will move in the right direction, so that BCR can be scaled-up in accordance with the CDR-demand of the Paris Agreement while also providing CDR in a fully sustainable manner.
