🌳 Carbon Removal Breakfast Club · Grounded Solutions: Biochar’s Role in Carbon Removal
Small room. Big biochar energy.
Join us for an intimate, no-slides-needed session on scaling biochar — where the stories are real, the carbon is durable, and the breakfast smells like campfire and fresh toast.
🎯 Why biochar, why now?
Turning crop waste into stable carbon and healthier soils is no longer niche — it’s leading the delivery stats in carbon removal and catching investor attention. With new EU rules brewing and UK pilots sprouting, we’ll dive into:
• Feedstock quirks
• Pyrolyser pitfalls
• Credit quality signals
• Cashflow strategies (beyond just offsets)
Expect high-signal conversations with soil scientists, carbon developers, and the financiers rewriting the biochar playbook.
🎤 Confirmed panelist:
• Professor Colin E. Snape — Director of the EPSRC Centre for CCS and Cleaner Fossil Energy
• Zarak Pasha — Head of Carbon Finance, Standard Chartered — brings the lender’s view on what makes biochar projects bankable, from offtake stacking to risk controls.
• Henrietta Moon — CEO & Co-founder, Carbo Culture, brings the operator’s lens on scaling biochar—turning waste biomass into durable carbon and truly bankable projects.
• Julien Jacob — Head of Offtake & Investor Solutions, Puro.earth
• Oliver Erb — Co‑founder, Cula (digital MRV)
Other guests include leading financiers and corporate offtakers, more to come!
Coffee will be strong. Conversation stronger. And yes, a fresh hot breakfast spread—think shakshuka, roasted veg, and warm pastries—beats the usual "coffee-and-croissant" routine.
A huge thank you to our sponsor, Alcom, an end-to-end carbon project developer that manufactures its own pyrolysis units to produce biochar and high-quality carbon removal credits . With operational projects in the Philippines and India, they are turning agricultural waste into durable carbon removal and clean energy, focusing on decarbonizing value chains like rice and cotton
📍 Quick Facts
🗓️ Thursday 23 Oct 2025 — the morning after Carbon Unbound Europe
⏰ 09:15–11:30 BST (Doors open from 08:45)
💸 £20–30 suggested donation (covers breakfast, coffee, and fruit sticker tag!)
🌀 Want to volunteer or need help with ticket costs? Just message Lydia.
🎥 Will it be recorded? Yes — the session will be recorded, and we'll capture the best moments on camera for a fun highlight reel (but no hybrid streaming).
👕 Dress code? White & blue tones — biochar chic encouraged 😉
🗞️ Refunds? Full refund up to 48h prior. Non-refundable afterwards
🍊 Fun bit: One of your RSVP questions is about your biochar spirit fruit — because climate work is serious, but we don’t have to be.