International Biochar Initiative
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| Name: | International Biochar Initiative |
| Official Abbreviation: | IBI |
| Description: | IBI is a registered non-profit organization supporting researchers, commercial entities, policy makers, development agents, farmers and gardeners, and others committed to supporting sustainable biochar production and utilization systems that remove carbon from the atmosphere and enhance the earth’s soils. |
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IBI advocates biochar as a strategy to: improve the Earth’s soils; help mitigate the anthropogenic greenhouse effect by reducing greenhouse gas emissions and sequestering atmospheric carbon in a stable soil carbon pool; and improve water quality by retaining agrochemicals. IBI also promotes: sustainable co-production of clean energy and other bio-based products as part of the biochar process; efficient biomass utilization in developing country agriculture; and cost-effective utilization of urban, agricultural and forest co products. |
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| Address: |
26 Hillside Terrace 10533 Irvington United States of America |
| Website: | http://www.biochar-international.org |
| Email: | info@biochar-international.org |
| Phone: | 914 693 0496 |
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| Type of organisation: | Non-governmental organisation |
| Partner category: | NGO |