Throughout the project, Planboo’s digital Measurement, Reporting, and Verification (MRVin) system will capture data points from the production of biochar to the calculation of carbon removals.

This end-to-end software accurately calculates waste inputs, biochar volumes, carbon removals, and in turn streamlines the availability of carbon data. The quantification of carbon reductions and removals using this data will create new income streams for communities.

Freddie Catlow, Founder of Planboo, said: “Cotton farmers are sitting on an unrealised asset, their crop residues, currently going up in smoke.With Planboo’s MRVin technology, farmers can learn, burn and earn by turning their waste into biochar. This durable, accredited form of carbon removal, builds resilience into soils, supporting farmers, the foundation of the cotton textile industry.”

The project will conclude in 2026 at which time BCI will share project learnings and outcomes with its members.The project will measure how biochar influences key agricultural indicators such as crop yield, water retention, as well as data on reduced farm level emissions and carbon removed.

In the longer term, both BCI and Planboo will assess the potential to take this approach to scale by demonstrating the value it can provide from environmental and economic improvements at the field level to Scope 3 reduction data and carbon credits.