Biochar
The goal of net-zero is to achieve carbon neutrality by 2050 whereby through a raft of measures including a massive scale-up of renewable energy and achieving a renewable, circular society, the balance between the CO₂ we emit and the CO₂ absorbed out of the atmosphere is zero. So, on an annual cycle once we achieve net-zero, the ppm of atmospheric CO₂ and other damaging greenhouse gases will remain stable. But in terms of combatting climate change and staving off the worst effects, achieving the key goal of net-zero will only get us half-way there.
What we also need to be doing in parallel to achieving net-zero, is drawing down the current excess of atmospheric CO₂ and locking it away for good.
Step forward biochar.
Conferences
Biochar is one of the IPCC’s handful of recognised pathways to drawing down and sequestering excess atmospheric CO₂. The technology to do so is proven, operational today and scalable to enable the withdrawal over time of giga tonnes of atmospheric CO₂. Bio360 Expo happily “gets its hands dirty” by digging deep into the field of biochar to bring together some of the world’s foremost thinkers and practitioners from across the international biochar spectrum.
Biochar room take me there
8-9 February
Discover the possibilities of biochar across two days of dedicated, international conferences, covering a diverse range of topics including advances in the pyrolysis of biosolids, a look into the voluntary carbon credits schemes available today, perspectives for biochar across Australia and New Zealand, Italy, France, USA, Canada, case studies from a diverse range of biomass feedstocks etc.
Circular room take me there
Biochar, Greenhouses and Carbon Cascades, Hot Lime Labs
Community-scale carbon carbon and utilisation systems with biochar production, Ricardo
Green Building room take me there
Green Building : a growing number of opportunities to incorporate biochar in a range of applications in the built environment are highlighted in the Green Building conferences, including in asphalt, concrete, floor screed, lacquer, 3D printed materials, drywall and cladding.
10h00 - 11h20 Green Building : defossilising asphalt
- The use of Biochar @Scale in Pavements, Mining Roads and General Carbon Net-Negative Construction, Andre van Zyl - Founder and Director, Green Carbon Industries (au)
- Biochar and Ecofalt : the perfect match, Sander Lubberhuizen - Head of the City Engineers, The Municipality of Enshede (nl)
11h20 - 13h00 Green Building : defossilising concrete
- Biochar in floor screed - case studies, Caspar von Ziegner - CEO, Novocarbo (de)
Biochar in concrete - the key to a climate-positive construction industry, Julia Roth - Biochar Expert, CarStorCon Technologies GmbH (de)
14h00 - 17h00 Green Building : defossilising building materials- Biochar in the Built Environment - Possibilities and Progress, Kathleen Draper - Chair, IBI (us)
- Carbon storing 3D panelings and facades, Daniel Schwaag - CTO & Co-founder, Made of Air (de)
- Why living facades will conquer - now!, Lars Höglund - Director, Butong (se)
- Caspar von Ziegner - CEO, Novocarbo (de)
Biochar production utilising dried anaerobic digestate as a feedstock, Mick Jones - R&D, Woodtek Engineering