About project
Carboneers have upgraded their artisanal biochar production by adopting “Earth Kilns” developed by High Plains Biochar. This enhanced technology improves worker safety, reduces methane emissions, and enables more accurate emissions tracking. It ensures stable and consistent production while preserving key co-benefits for agricultural systems and maintaining a strong focus on equality and women’s empowerment.
About supplier
Carboneers develops smallholder farmer biochar projects in the Global South, where biomass is more abundantly available and often goes to waste. By training rural farmer communities to convert their own agricultural waste biomass to biochar, socio-economic value can be created in these communities. Biochar is a stable form of carbon for over a thousand years and thus a solid carbon sink with which carbon credits can be created. The vision of Carboneers is to provide farmers with more economic stability, while enhancing soil fertility and contributing to several of the Sustainable Development Goals, such as gender equality and food security.
Benefits of project and method
- Offers ex-post credit, representing carbon that has already been removed and verified.
- The project converts rice straw, which would otherwise have been burnt, into a biochar, safely storing the carbon for hundreds of years.
- The improved technology will provide more accurate in operational data (eg: production emissions, pyrolysis temperature), ensuring the project has a positive impact with high integrity.
- Carboneers utilises a comprehensive and robust monitoring system with weekly app updates, GPS-verified photos, and rotating supervisors to ensure transparency and accountability.
- The "Earth Kilns" improves worker safety by reducing their exposure to open flames.
- The projects reduces gender inequality in the area enabling them to become artisans, supervisors, managers, and gives them control over their own income.