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Welcome to the Biochar Journal (tBJ)

We seek to spark innovative research to find economically and environmentally responsible uses for biochar. We seek to bring scientific content to life in a manner that inspires academics and non-specialists alike. Although we use certain elements common to scientific publications such as peer review and references, we do not aspire to be an academic journal. We use these standards as we want our readers to be confident that what is written in the Biochar Journal is based on sound science and practicality.  In the same way that we are not an academic publication, neither are we an industry journal although we hope that industry and entrepreneurial people find inspiration and ideas for new products and successful models for biochar deployment.

Fossil C – the legacy bloodline

by Hans-Peter Schmidt and Nikolas Hagemann
The combustion of fossil oil, natural gas, and coal has increased the CO2 content of the atmosphere by a solid 30%. As carbon is constantly exchanged between the atmosphere, biosphere, sea, and soil, the fossil carbon emitted initially into the atmosphere has been distributed all over the planet. Plants constantly...

Planetary Carbon Recycling - Global Cooling with Temporary C-Sinks

by Hans-Peter Schmidt and Nikolas Hagemann
Carbon from biomass and carbon that is recovered and synthesized directly from the atmosphere and oceans will become the future basis of the global economy. Carbon must be constantly recycled instead of mined fossil deposits. As long as biogenic and recycled carbon remains in forests, swamps, and materials such as...

Permanence of soil applied biochar

by Hans-Peter Schmidt, Samuel Abiven, Nikolas Hagemann and Johannes Meyer zu Drewer
An executive summary for Global Biochar Carbon Sink certification Biochar that was produced at pyrolysis temperatures above 550°C and presenting a molar H:C ratio below 0.4 is highly persistent when applied to the soil. 75% of such biochar carbon consists of stable polycyclic aromatic carbon and will persist after...

Reorganization of the EBC

Carbon Standards International AG becomes the new hub for EBC certification, climate services and the C-sink economy
  To keep pace with the rapid adoption of the EBC (European Biochar Certificate) and make the C-sink economy a success, the Ithaka Institute, the EASY-CERT Group, and the European Biochar Industry Consortium have jointly established a new company Carbon Standards International. The creation of this new entity will...

400,000 Pyrolysis Plants to Save the Climate

by Hans-Peter Schmidt and Nikolas Hagemann
To limit climate change to a temperature-rise of 2 °C, at least 220 billion metric tons of carbon must be sequestered in terrestrial C-sinks at the same time as drastic emission reductions are realized. Biochar and pyrolysis oil made from ramped up production of biomass could achieve one-third of this sink capacity...