We would like to invite you to The Biochar Summit 2023, the long-awaited biochar event of the year, organized as a cooperation between the European Biochar Industry Consortium EBI, the Nordic Biochar Network, and City of Helsingborg.
Register and join us for four days of networking and intensive discussions about the future of biochar.
The Biochar Summit will take place between June 12th - 15th in Helsingborg, Sweden. The Summit starts with a Workshop day on June 12th, followed by the Main Conference on June 13th - 14th, and Study visits on June 15th.
View the full program here, learn more about the speakers here and see our different ticket options here.
June 12th - Workshops
Workshops will be held at the NSR Biochar competence centre in Helsingborg. The workshops will focus on biochar production, business models and R&D.
You will also have the opportunity to experience Helsingborg's new biochar competence center RecoPark.
June 13th - 14th - The international Biochar Conference
Hundreds of delegates will gather at the Sea U Congress in Helsingborg, about 1 hour from Copenhagen.
June 15th - Study visits [sold out]
Organized study tour to experience several biochar production plants with different technologies in the south of Sweden.
The conference is a collaboration between European Biochar Industry - EBI, Nordic Biochar Network and the City of Helsingborg.
See the full program for the summit here.
Welcome to Helsingborg, Sweden June 12th - 15th, 2023!
Biochar Summit 2023 will take place at Clarion Hotel & Congress Sea U in Helsingborg, Sweden. A central location in the city, with beautiful views of the surrounding water. Tours will also be arranged to biochar production plants in Helsingborg and the South of Sweden.
It is possible to book your accommodation at Clarion Hotel & Congress Sea U. Please visit their website here to see rates and find available rooms.
In March, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) released its AR6 Synthesis Report: Climate Change 2023 in order to provide a complete picture of climate change and the available solutions.
Dr. Oliver Geden, Senior Fellow at the German Institute for International and Security Affairs (SWP), was a lead author of the IPCC AR6 Synthesis Report (Working Group III - Mitigation of Climate Change) as well as a member of the Core Writing Team for the Synthesis Report.
Together with other researchers, he devised and convened the State of Carbon Dioxide Removal report - the first global assessment of the state of carbon dioxide removal (CDR). The project aims to build a community, bridge data gaps, and support the scale up of CDR responsibly and equitably.
Given his background and his focus on European and global climate policy, and particularly carbon dioxide removal, we are excited that we could win the policy expert and climate researcher as keynote speaker for the Biochar Summit 2023.
Chairman of the executive committee (Mayor) City of Helsingborg, Sweden
Hochschule Geisenheim University, Geisenheim, Germany
Norwegian Geotechnical Institute (NGI) and Norwegian University of Life Sciences (NMBU), Norway
Adjunct Professor at the Faculty of Environmental Sciences and Natural Resource Management.
NGI - VOW
The main objective in this project is to use biological waste to create sustainable products for soil, air and wastewater treatment. The sustainable biochar sorbents will be optimized and tested in real-world contamination scenarios. Income will be generated through clean, valuable, internationally saleable biochar-based binders. NGI - BiocharNGI - BICEPS - Biochar integration in small cropping systems
Tree specialist, Landscape Architect LAR MSA, Street Department Stockholm, Sweden
Britt-Marie Alvem has been working for the city of Stockholm as a Landscape architect since 1997. In 2007 she began working for the traffic administration, specialising in urban trees. Street tree maintenance, developing new substrates including biochar, planting and selecting trees, and building tree pits are some of her main tasks.
Her presentation at the Biochar Summit will be a summary of how biochar is used in Stockholm tree planting pits and how it is specified, what we know and what needs to be specified further.
Carbuna AG, Memmingen, Germany
Hansjörg Lerchenmüller is an entrepreneur, manager, and business angel who has co-founded/ invested in several start-ups in the fields of renewable energies and carbon removal. Hansjörg has a technical background as a physicist. He is co-initiator and chairman of the European Biochar Industry Consortium (EBI), chairman of the supervisory board of Carbuna AG, and co-founder of Carbonfuture GmbH.
Roskilde University, Roskilde, Denmark
Tobias P. Thomsen is associate professor at Roskilde University (Denmark), at the Department for People and Technology. He has a chemical engineering background with an Msc in Sustainable Energy (biofuels) and a PhD in thermochemical biomass treatment both from the Technical University of Denmark. Has 15 years of experience related to development and optimization of systems for thermochemical conversion of organic resources with focus on pyrolysis and thermal gasification.
SynCraft, Schwaz, Austria
Marcel Huber is a trained mechanical engineer and graduated in process engineering at the university of applied sciences Innsbruck (MCI). From a research assistant at the MCI, he then developed to a research area manager. In 2009 he founded the company SynCraft together with 2 former students. SynCraft is now successfully building their unique reverse power plants worldwide, which leave a climate-positive footprint thanks to their valuable by-product biochar.
Morten has over 15 years of experience building tech startups from the ground up. He is part of the business development team at Stiesdal, working on strategy, finance, IT, and policy development.
The main purpose of Stiesdal SkyClean is to develop and commercialize pyrolysis equipment for the production of energy and biochar, with a focus on industrialization, standardization, and large-scale production. Our SkyClean technology enables the production of carbon-negative fuel and biochar by pyrolyzing agricultural residues, using technology originating from the Technical University of Denmark. We have scaled up the technology and currently operate a 2 MW test unit. Our commercial-sized 20 MW pilot unit is currently being built next to a large biogas plant, where residues from the plant are used as feedstock for the pyrolysis unit. The energy generated in the form of heat is returned to the biogas plant, where it supports the separation of methane and CO2.
Helmut Gerber is one of three Managing Directors of PYREG GmbH, which he founded in 2009 as a spin-off from the Technical University of Bingen, after conducting several research projects at the university about pyrolysis and gasification since 1999. He is responsible for development, plant engineering and renewable energies at PYREG.
PYREG GmbH, Germany
Vow and its subsidiaries Scanship, C.H. Evensen and Etia are passionate about preventing pollution. The company’s world leading solutions convert biomass and waste into valuable resources and generate clean energy for a wide range of industries.
Advanced technologies and solutions from Vow enable industry decarbonisation and material recovery. Biomass, sewage sludge, plastic waste and end-of-life tyres can be converted into clean energy, low carbon fuels and renewable carbon that replace natural gas, petroleum products and fossil carbon. The solutions are scalable, standardised, patented, and thoroughly documented, and the company’s capability to deliver is well proven.
The company is a cruise market leader in wastewater purification and valorisation of waste. It provides technology and solutions which enable industries to transition towards a fossil-free future by converting biomass and waste into valuable resources and clean energy. The company also has strong niche positions in food safety and robotics, and in heat-intensive industries with a strong decarbonising agenda.
PYREG GmbH is a German NetZero Tech company and a pioneer in the field of CO2 removal (CDR) through carbonizing organic waste (biomass, sewage sludge, etc.) into CO2-binding biochar while generating renewable energy. The industry leading machine manufacturer was founded in 2009 as a university spin-off.
With its modular high-tech machines, the company offers a proven, scalable, and cost-effective solution for safely and permanently binding CO2 in the form of beneficial biochar. The targets of the Paris Agreement can only be achieved by implementing such negative emissions technologies.
Used as a soil conditioner or in other permanent material applications, biochar creates a natural, safe, and long-term carbon sink. The amount of CO2 bound by PYREG’s plants can be certified and traded. All PYREG's 50+ plants commissioned worldwide will sequester a total of 30,000 tons of CO2 per year. In 2022, the company founded its US subsidiary in Portland (Maine) - establishing both sales and technical service support for this growing market segment.
We are looking for partners for The Biochar Summit 2023. There will be four levels of partnerships: Diamond (main partner), Anthracite, Graphite, and Carbonate.
We also have a limited number of exhibition areas sized 4, 6 and 10 sqm available at the venue.
Please contact Eva Stål, to learn more at eva@biochar-summit.eu.
For questions, please contact Eva Stål at eva@biochar-summit.eu.
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