How does Carbonscape’s charcoal fit within international agreements?
Carbonscape offers several recognised solutions in the international arena; some are under development and others are already part of the exponentially growing global carbon market (last year was estimated to be worth between US$60 to US$70 billion). Some examples include: • Non-Kyoto market: The major policy focus for countries such as the USA is mitigation of climate change through the development of new technologies. This is a major market for solutions such as that offered by Carbonscape which can provide commercial-scale production of charcoal and an alternative economic solution to Carbon Capture and Storage that is ready now. • Kyoto compliant market: Permanently sequestering carbon dioxide is already recognised as a valid mitigation response. The rules that govern sequestering carbon dioxide permanently ‘are under development’ in a number of ways. For example, the debate about sequestration is currently being reframed in terms of storing charcoal in soil (better known as biocha
