Biochar-based carbon dioxide removal (CDR) in Northern Ireland was explored in this report. Biochar is one of a number of ways to capture carbon from the atmosphere. Northern Ireland’s relatively large agricultural sector offers both a route to reliable and inexpensive CDR and a potential new revenue stream for the country’s farmers. The report showed that biochar offers a route to sequestering a total CO2 removal potential of 420 ktCO2e, just based on the CCC’s recommended use of land for bioenergy crops. This could create additional revenue of £300m for the NI economy, up to 2000 jobs in rural areas and could decarbonise the concrete industry in NI.
