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Sign upApril 19, 2024
Nespresso
Paraguaçu
The project, located in one of the major coffee hubs of Brazil, will bring together hundreds of farmers, including farmers from Nespresso’s AAA Sustainable Quality™ Programme. 16,000 tonnes of unused coffee-processing residues will be transformed into 4,000 tonnes of biochar every year, thus aiming to remove over 6,000 tonnes of CO2 from the atmosphere. This biochar will then return to the same farmers having provided the initial biomass, along a fully local and circular model, to be used as a soil amendment.
Project assessement is underway (long leadtimes to measure agricultural impact)
The Solution aims at removing atmospheric carbon and storing it away for hundreds of years, by extracting and stabilizing carbon from crop residues in tropical developing countries, in the form of a product called "biochar". Biochar can be incorporated into soils where it remains stable for hundreds of years. In parallel, incorporating biochar in soils allows to improve soil health and crop productivity, and reduces the usage of fertilizers. Last, the production process of biochar allows to generate renewable electricity.
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