European Biochar Industry Consortium (EBI)

Biochar has emerged as the most mature and scalable solution for long term carbon dioxide removal (CDR), with a potential of gigatons of CDR per year.

The industry is at a crossroad, and it needs now to shift up a few gears if it wants to live up to its promise and to contribute significantly to the net-zero target in 2050.

In this session we will explore some of the critical questions facing the biochar industry:

• What is the long-term potential of biochar as a CDR solution? What are the most promising geographies and sources of feedstock?
• What is the current landscape of biochar industry?
• How to engage in a sustainable way the agri-supply chains, upstream for biomass supply and downstream for biochar usage?
• What are the business models with most potential to scale?
• What are the barriers that need to be overcome in the next few years?
• How to keep high integrity and trust in what is fundamentally a highly decentralized CDR model?
• Where do we see the industry 10 years from now?