Pyrolysis and Biochar

Pyrolysis takes place in a sealed chamber, where biomass is heated (not burned) without Oxygen to a very high temperature, for producing Biochar. By incorporating a commercial Pyrolysis and BioChar industry into the CPRSX Climate Change Action Plan, CPRSX enhances and empowers our REDD+ Forestry projects on the redundant farmlands of our Filipino JV Partners, which become available due to our Protected Food Production Project.

When Biochar is added to soil it creates new biological life forms which transform (‘eat’) residual chemicals, pesticides and agricultural waste, thus returning soil to its natural state. BioChar sequesters and increases soil carbon retention as it develops a natural and healthy soil microbial biome. It delivers environmental benefits through soil detoxification and biome regeneration. Other benefits include nutrient retention, improved water-holding capacity and increased aeration. When incorporated into soil Biochar is 10 to 100 times more stable than the feedstock from which it was produced. Biochar’s organic carbon will persist in soil for decades to millennia thereby offering an additional avenue for carbon sequestration and emissions trading.

The approved Methodology for Biochar Utilisation in Soil supporting carbon sequestration and emissions trading will be adopted in the very near future by Verra, the certification authority. This methodology is intended to drive additional finance toward biochar projects and help realise biochar’s global climate change mitigation potential which is up to 1.1 billion tCO2e per year globally. Global demand for BioChar is reasonably forecast to exceed USD $25 billion in the coming years. The methodology when adopted should add value to CPRSX’s Pyrolysis and BioChar industry, which we are preparing in the Philippines with our Indigenous and rural JV Partners.