Carbonized Rice Hull (CRH)

Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme
Jerome Mathews, Australian Biochars www.Biochars.com September 28, 2008
Submission by Australian Biochars Pty Ltd

At the Government seminar to introduce the Government’s Green Paper on the Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme (CPRS) held in Brisbane on the 18th July, 2008 Australian Biochars was invited to present a submission as to whether, in its opinion, it would be a viable option to include the use of biochar in some way in the CPRS.

For the reasons set out below, it is submitted that such a use would be both viable and effective because:
• Biochar sequesters and stores greenhouse gasses for far longer than forests are able so to do;
• Biochar does not require tending, watering or fertilising, unlike forests;
• Biochar is not subject to the vagaries of disease, fire or weather, unlike forests;
• Biochar increases crop yields;
• Biochar use makes for easy accounting;
• Biochar use is open to participation from multinational corporationsdown to individual users;
• Biochar has high water retention properties and is beneficial in drought conditions.