New Study Indicates Biochar Carbon Removal (#BCR) Can Mitigate 3% to 7% of Global Anthropogenic CO2 Emissions

🌏 We need to remove 10Gt of CO2 per year by 2050. To achieve this, we will need a portfolio of carbon dioxide removal (#CDR) technologies at scale. BCR will have an important role to play, and a new joint research collaboration between the SLU - Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, The Nature Conservancy, Cornell University, and Yale School of the Environment has provided new insight into the potential of BCR as a climate change mitigation strategy. 

🚜 If all crop residues generated by agriculture globally were utilised for biochar production, the theoretical potential could reach a maximum of one billion metric tons of carbon stored per year, equivalent to all emissions from the world's crop production!

👏 As nice as that would be, in the real world, the study estimates that biochar’s 100-year carbon storage capability falls within 0.36–0.72 gigatons per year which accounts for 3% to 7% of current annual global anthropogenic CO2 emissions just from crop residue alone. 

🇧🇹 🇮🇳 The study also highlights 12 countries that have the potential to sequester more than one-fifth of their current emissions as biochar from crop residues, with #Bhutan (68%) and #India (53%) having the largest potentials.

🔥 Biochar is on fire! Along with our post on the recent study by the @international biochar Initiative on the global scaling potential of BCR, it is fantastic to see more evidence coming in demonstrating the vital role BCR can play in climate change as a carbon removal solution. 

Want to learn more or join in on #TeamBiochar? Learn more at European Biochar Industry Consortium (EBI) 🇪🇺 or US Biochar Coalition (USBC)  🇺🇲

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