Carboneers India Biochar

Biochar Biomass
クレジットの種類 ボランタリークレジット
認証基準
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認証基準とは

クレジットの発行元となる企業・団体・プロジェクトが実現した温室効果ガス排出削減量または吸収量を測定し、その信頼性・永続性・追加性等を独立した立場から検証しクレジットの質を保証する基準の名称(表示は略称)

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VintageYear
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VintageYear とは

クレジットの発行年度(認証基準の審査を通過し、当該クレジットの温室効果ガス排出削減量または吸収量を自社排出量に適応可能と定められた年度)

2024

購入可能なオフセット量

24,836.12 トン

1トンあたりの価格(税込)

28,796

プロジェクト概要

Together with our local implementation partners and smallholder farmer communities, Carboneers develops decentralized biochar projects with the aim to provide in much needed carbon dioxide removal. In our Indian Carboneers project, we are very proud to work with Rajesh Aggarwal. He has a lot of experience in working agricultural NGOs and farming communities throughout India. Together, we provide farmers with the right training, tools and technology, in order to convert biomass to biochar. Biochar is an inert carbonized material that is a stable carbon sink for over a thousand years!And besides being a direct carbon sink, biochar offers great beneficial characteristics in tropical agriculture; it stores nutrients, increasing crop yields; it increases the water holding capacity, aiding in climate adaptivity; and it houses microorganisms, raising the organic carbon content of degraded soils. Combined, we work with 3000 farming communities who convert their agricultural rice straw, corn, fruit tree trimmings, cotton, millet & sorghum stalks to biochar. Every step in the biochar production and application is registered by our supervisors and management team, with a Penn State University provided mobile application. The project is audited by Ceres Cert and certified by Carbon Standards International under the Global Artisan C-Sink Standard. And added together, our Ghanaian Carboneers have the capacity to sequester 75.000 tons of carbon dioxide on a yearly basis!Often, biochar is made with million-dollar installations, but in rural agricultural areas in the Global South, the infrastructure lacks to make this feasible, though there is a lot of agricultural biomass burned uncontrollably and left out for decay. Carboneers specifically focuses on decentralized biochar production the farming communities, where often climate change strikes hardest, profit the most when they produce their own biochar. Farmers profit predominantly from crop yield increase and an additional income, derived from the application of biochar to their soils and the sales of carbon credits.Carbon sequestration is for our projects a portal to open up a lot more socio-economic benefits for these communities. Benefits, that on its own, usually nobody is willing to pay for. With the ability to produce certified biochar, farming communities can escape the vicious circle of poverty and they can mitigate the detrimental effects of climate change to their soils. By providing the right handles to farming communities, decentralized biochar projects in the Global South contribute to a lot of the Sustainable Development Goals. We see this as a win-win-win situation.