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Biochar Media

Biochar Reports Issued by Government and Multilateral Agencies

March 2010 - Biochar and Sustainable Agriculture, prepared the National Center for Appropriate Technology (NCAT) of USDA published a new ATTRA publication on sustainable agriculture.

February 2010 - Biochar Application to Soils: A Critical Scientific Review of Effects on Soil Properties, Processes and Functions, prepared by the European Commission, Joint Research Centre Institute for Environment and Sustainability

September 2009 - Biochar and Climate Change, sent to the UK Parliament by the UK House of Commons Library. The International Biochar Initiative has delivered comments to the UK Parliament in a fully referenced document that assesses the current state of biochar research and development

September 2009 - The Basics of Biochar, prepared by the Parliamentary Research Service for the Parliament of Australia; a general overview of biochar

September 2009 - Climate Change Science Compendium 2009, prepared by UNEP as a review of major scientific contributions to the understanding of Earth Systems and climate. Biochar highlighted on pages 50 and 51 in Chapter 5, Systems Management

June 2009 - Biochar and Carbon Sequestration: A Regional Perspective, a report prepared for East of England Development Agency (EEDA)

Feb 2009 - Biochar, Climate Change and Soil: A Review to Guide Future Research, by Australia's national science agency, Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO)

Feb 2009 - Biochar: Examination of an Emerging Concept to Mitigate Climate Change, by the United States Congressional Research Service (CRS)

Biochar is all over the media, in books, newspapers, magazines and journals, films and videos, podcasts, discussion lists, and publications.

IBI is working to bring all this information into one place so the public has free and open access. Please feel free to browse the information below and download and print what you need for your continued work in supporting biochar.

Highlights include:

  • Biochar for Environmental Management, the all encompassing book on biochar, is edited by IBI Board members Johannes Lehmann and Stephen Joseph. The volume explores a diverse set of aspects needed to advance the application of biochar for environmental management.  
  • IBI Publications: featuring fact sheets, research summaries and white papers on biochar written by IBI. These are free to download and print to use as you see fit.
  • Biochar in the News: a current listing of all biochar-related stories in the news including links to the full article. Updated daily.