About Recarbono
We turn biomass into permanent carbon storage
Recarbono is a carbon removal project developer: we engineer, build and operate durable removal, biochar first, starting in Portugal and built to deploy anywhere residue is worth more as stored carbon than as fuel, verifying every tonne end to end. We bring rigour to a young market so durable removal earns the trust it needs to scale.
Integrity drives value. Our mission is to make carbon removal something buyers can verify (tonne by tonne, from the biomass in the field to the retired credit) on digital infrastructure we build ourselves.
The market shift
The market stopped paying for volume
For a decade the carbon market rewarded tonnage. Cheap credits, generous assumptions, and a buyer base that had not yet been asked hard questions. That era is over, ended not by idealism but by scrutiny: journalism that took claims apart, ratings agencies that scored them, and finance teams that discovered a retired credit can become a liability.
What replaced it is a market that pays for carbon it can verify. Value now concentrates in projects with environmental integrity, robust certification, transparent governance and rigorous measurement backed by full traceability. This is the deeper transformation in climate finance: capital is moving toward measurable outcomes, regulatory certainty and long-term environmental value, and away from everything else.
The frameworks are converging on the same answer. The EU's CRCF is writing quantification, additionality, storage duration and sustainability into law. ICVCM's core principles set a quality floor for the voluntary market. CORSIA eligibility and alignment with Article 6 of the Paris Agreement define what a credit must satisfy to count in compliance contexts.
None of these reward volume. All of them reward proof.
So the implication for us is not subtle: we are not building for volume alone, but for the quality, credibility and transparency of every project we develop. Scientific rigour, internationally recognised standards, transparent governance and high-quality dMRV are what position a supplier in the premium end of this market, attract long-term capital, and earn trusted partnerships across both voluntary and compliance markets. That is the challenge, and it is the opportunity.
A note on precision, since this page is about integrity: those frameworks describe the standard we build to satisfy, not designations we already hold. Biochar removals are not currently CORSIA-eligible, and Article 6 alignment requires host-country authorisation. We will say so plainly on the day that changes, and not before. See our explainer on the EU CRCF.
What we stand for
Principles before promises
Scientific rigour
Permanence measured from the material itself, not inferred from process settings: R₀ petrography and per-batch laboratory analysis.
Conservative by design
We apply the conservative rules of the certification methodology we adopt, based on accredited laboratory analysis. Uncertainty is deducted, never averaged.
Recognised standards
Built to the strictest reading of the frameworks that matter (EBC and WBC, the Puro.earth and Isometric methodologies, and the EU's CRCF), so every tonne stays defensible as the rules harden.
Transparent governance
Verification that does not answer to production. Every reported figure traces back to a raw record an auditor can retrace, on demand.
Engineered in-house
We design, build and operate our own pyrolysis and dMRV stack: control over quality, uptime and data integrity.
Rooted locally
Fire-risk biomass sourced within a short radius of our sites; value (jobs, soil, heat) returns to the territory it came from.
Team
Who is building this
Executive Team
Gonçalo Lopes
Co-founder & CEO
Co-responsible for Recarbono's strategy, he leads in particular business development, financial structuring and the scaling of projects, contributing to the integration of production, certification and Recarbono's own dMRV platform. A petroleum engineer with an MBA and an Executive Master in Finance, he built an international career in the energy sector, with experience in more than twenty countries. At Recarbono, he applies that experience to structuring carbon removal projects that are sound, measurable and financeable.
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Nuno Giraldo Torres
Co-founder & COO
Co-responsible for Recarbono's strategy, he leads in particular project execution, from the development, construction and commissioning of the units to building the network of feedstock, suppliers and engineering partners. A mechanical engineer with a postgraduate degree in Management and more than two decades in execution engineering, he brings a consolidated portfolio in solar generation, EPC, renewable energy, energy efficiency and thermal systems, experience he applies to developing and operating Recarbono's carbon removal infrastructure.
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Tiago Quelhas
Co-founder & CLO
Co-responsible for Recarbono's strategy, he leads in particular the company's legal, regulatory and corporate structure, including contracts, permitting, governance and the CRCF framework, laying the foundations the projects need for certification and financing. A jurist with experience in the financial, energy and environmental sectors, he also leads Recarbono's institutional relations and the development of its strategic partnerships.
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Luís Gil
Chairman of the Board of Advisors
João Bernardo
Advisor
CBE – Centro da Biomassa para a Energia
Carlos Coelho
Advisor
Greenvolt
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The facilities, the timeline, and the journal of the build as it happens.