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Isometric recently developed a protocol for durable carbon removal through Biogenic Carbon Capture and Sequestration (BCCS) that has now entered public consultation.
The Protocol details how BCCS can be monitored, reported on and verified so that buyers can purchase BCCS carbon credits with confidence.
In BCCS, sustainably sourced biomass—such as waste from agriculture or forest management—powers an industrial process that generates carbon dioxide. Through a chemical process, this carbon dioxide is separated from other components of the flue gas, captured and durably stored deep underground.
Isometric’s BCCS Protocol provides the most detailed, robust requirements on the market for how suppliers should sustainably source biomass. This can give buyers of biomass-based carbon dioxide removal credits confidence that all biomass used in the BCCS process does not contribute to deforestation or changes to land use that would create further emissions.
Arbor Energy is the first supplier signed on to have credits issued against this protocol. Arbor uses technology that produces low cost and scalable bioenergy that also captures and locks away carbon dioxide for thousands of years.
All Isometric protocols are developed in line with the Isometric Standard, which is the world’s most rigorous set of rules for carbon removal. This Protocol was created by Isometric’s in-house Science Team and now enters a peer review process with more than 200 climate experts in Isometric’s independent Science Network.
This brings the total number of published Isometric protocols to six: Biomass Geological Storage, Bio-oil Geological Storage, Direct Air Capture, Enhanced Weathering, Ocean Alkalinity Enhancement and now Biogenic Carbon Capture and Sequestration.
The publication of the BCCS Protocol is another step towards building trust and transparency in carbon markets. This is what is required to help carbon removal scale to the level that the planet needs and is what Isometric was founded to do.
