Today in Biofuels Digest discussion groups: “The agency singles out the use of ‘biochar”.

At LinkedIn:

Arturo Velez, CEO and Founder, Agave Project: “The United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification proposes that the UNFCCC (United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change) recognize practical efforts to improve soils’ ability to take up and store carbon as a greenhouse gas abatement technology, and include them in the Clean Development Mechanism, currently the main financing and technology transfer vehicle for climate change mitigation projects involving both developing and developed nations. The agency singles out the use of ‘biochar,’ a form of charcoal used extensively by Amazonian Indian cultures as a soil enhancement for centuries, as one means of doing so.

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