Bio360 Europe - Speakers - William HOWE

From 05/02/2025 to 06/02/2025   Venue : Parc de la Beaujoire, Nantes

William HOWE
Impact Investment
Big Valley
 

Biochar in the Global South : from current experience to gigatons of carbon removed
05/02/2025 at 15:00

Biochar Carbon Removal (BCR) potential in the Global South is enormous given plant growth rates in the tropics. That potential is now beginning to be realized as the world’s largest biochar facility is in Bolivia with many new and planned production facilities coming on-line across Latin America, Africa and Asia. In addition to its climate benefits, tropical soils can benefit substantially from the additional of biochar as soils in many parts of the Global South are often depleted

15:00  Panel one will highlight the insights of six/seven biochar producers that are converting agricultural and wood residues into biochar at industrial scale.
The Panelists
Mash Makes (dk/in) : Rohit Nagargoje
ReyCoal (de/ke) : Johannes Kern
NetZero (fr) : Axel Reinaud
ARTi (us) : Lissete Davila
Ankur Scientific (in) : Ankur Jain

16:30  break

16:40  
Panel two will include stakeholders in the biochar industry that are facilitating scaling in the Global South. Carbon markets are a key driver to enabling economically sustainable biochar production and contain a growing variety of service providers including companies that develop and ensure biochar quality standards, crediting standards and registries, digital management, reporting and verification providers, consultants assisting companies to commence biochar production and verification of its impacts on greenhouse gas emissions and, critically, investors willing to structure appropriate financing to support biochar production.
The Panelists
Carbonfuture (de) : Marcel Eichler
Puro.Earth (fi) : Julien Jacob
Big Valley GmbH (de): William Howe
Oiko Credit (lu) : Beryl van Andel
DSS+ Consulting (us) : Merce Domenech
Carbon Standards International (ch) : Dominic Hafner

 
Bio360 Europe - Speakers - William HOWE