Cotierras Biochar Tech Aims to Enrich Colombias Coffee Industry [Video]

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Reversing climate change and safeguarding your morning cup of coffee in a one-two punch? That’s what Cotierra, a Swiss-Colombian carbon removal and AgTech startup aim to do with the $1 million in pre-seed funding they just received from a consortium of environmental and climate-focused investors. The investment will support the development of its biochar reactor technology and Monitoring, Reporting, and Verification (MRV) system in Colombia, the world’s third largest coffee producer.

Cotierra made the case for the vast potential of biochar — the process of creating charcoal by heating biomass in a low-oxygen environment and then mixing it into soils, storing and locking away carbon for centuries. The natural process can be scaled as a significant approach to carbon dioxide removal (CDR). 

Agriculture, forestry, and other land-use sectors account for 23% of worldwide greenhouse gas emissions, according to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate …