{
  "@context": "https://schema.org",
  "@type": "Organization",
  "name": "Recarbono",
  "url": "https://www.recarbono.com",
  "email": "info@recarbono.com",
  "legal_entity": {
    "registered_name": "Recarbono Next, Lda",
    "trading_as": "Recarbono",
    "company_number": "519019571",
    "registered_office": "Estrada Malveira da Serra, n.º 920, Aldeia de Juzo, 2750-834 Cascais, Portugal",
    "jurisdiction": "Portugal"
  },
  "description": "Integrated biochar carbon-removal developer — accredited laboratory analysis, a CRCF-native dMRV platform and industrial production wired into one accountable chain. Woody residue is pyrolysed into biochar; every batch is measured, analysed by accredited partner laboratories, verified and traceable.",
  "sector": "Durable carbon dioxide removal (CDR)",
  "method": "Biochar carbon sink (pyrolysis of biomass residue)",
  "region": "Portugal first; development pipeline in Mozambique and Angola.",
  "stage": "Pre-first-production; building initial capacity and the CarbonVision dMRV platform",
  "deployment_models": {
    "offsetting": "Recarbono-owned facilities. We produce, verify and sell the credits on the open market.",
    "insetting": "Units sited inside a partner's value chain, converting the partner's own residue. The removal is counted in the partner's footprint rather than sold as an open-market credit.",
    "engineering": "Design and delivery of small pyrolysis units for agro-industrial clients treating their own residual feedstock (olive mills, wineries, nut/rice/cork processors and similar). Two commercial models: outright equipment purchase, or a Build-Own-Operate Agreement in which Recarbono finances, builds, owns and operates the unit on the client's site and the client pays per tonne of residue processed. Under BOTH models the client keeps the outputs — biochar, recovered heat and the carbon removal (a tolling structure, not a gate fee). Recarbono provides the certification path and the CarbonVision dMRV that make the client's removal claim defensible."
  },
  "pipeline": {
    "portugal_facility_1": "Miranda do Corvo, Coimbra district (central Portugal) — 50,000 t/yr feedstock throughput (feedstock processed, NOT tCO2e removed); estimated 18,000-26,000 tCO2e/yr of verified removals at full operation (design estimate, not operational data) — in development. The municipal protocol covers siting and permitting only; it is not a feedstock supply agreement.",
    "portugal_facility_2": "50,000 t/yr feedstock throughput — pipeline (the next step after Facility 1)",
    "mozambique": "6-8 units — pipeline",
    "angola": "6-8 units — pipeline",
    "insetting_units": "3-4 units in partner value chains — pipeline / in discussion"
  },
  "laboratories": "Recarbono does NOT own a laboratory. Analysis is performed by highly specialised accredited partner laboratories, integrated directly into our digital infrastructure — the chain of proof.",
  "carbontrack": "The field layer of the CarbonVision platform: GPS equipment on collection vehicles that records where biomass was collected and how it travelled to the plant — the geolocated feedstock origin the registries require, captured without supplier paperwork.",
  "carbonvision": {
    "note": "CarbonVision is a dMRV platform built by Recarbono and independent by design: verification is governed separately from production and never answers to the producer. It is in development and planned to open to other developers. It is one company today."
  },
  "sameAs": [
    "https://www.linkedin.com/company/recarbono",
    "https://www.youtube.com/@recarbono",
    "https://x.com/recarbono"
  ],
  "team": [
    {
      "name": "Gonçalo Lopes",
      "role": "Co-founder & CEO"
    },
    {
      "name": "Nuno Giraldo Torres",
      "role": "Co-founder & COO"
    },
    {
      "name": "Tiago Quelhas",
      "role": "Co-founder & Chief Legal Officer (CLO)"
    }
  ],
  "feedstock": [
    "Forestry residue (thinnings, fuel-management cuttings, harvest leftovers)",
    "Agricultural prunings (olive, vineyard, orchard)",
    "Wood-processing by-products (sawmill offcuts, bark, chips)"
  ],
  "standards_built_to": [
    {
      "name": "European Biochar Certificate (EBC)",
      "url": "https://www.european-biochar.org",
      "role": "Production and material quality; H/C_org below 0.7 to qualify as biochar; contaminant panel"
    },
    {
      "name": "World Biochar Certificate (WBC)",
      "url": "https://www.carbon-standards.com/en/home",
      "role": "The global counterpart to the EBC, for production facilities outside Europe — the certification path for the Mozambique and Angola units"
    },
    {
      "name": "Puro.earth biochar methodology",
      "url": "https://puro.earth",
      "role": "CORC issuance route; biochar sits in the CORC200+ durability class (several centuries) under the Biochar Methodology Edition 2025"
    },
    {
      "name": "Isometric",
      "url": "https://isometric.com",
      "role": "Second registry route; strict, science-led verification"
    },
    {
      "name": "Regulation (EU) 2024/3012 (CRCF)",
      "url": "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/eli/reg/2024/3012/oj",
      "role": "EU certification framework for carbon removals"
    },
    {
      "name": "Delegated Regulation (EU) 2026/285",
      "url": "https://data.europa.eu/eli/reg_del/2026/285/oj",
      "role": "The first CRCF certification methodologies (DACCS, BioCCS, biochar), in force 7 May 2026. Requires H/C_org at or below 0.7 for any unit to be issued; permits biochar storage in soils and in cement, concrete or asphalt only."
    }
  ],
  "laboratory_accreditation": "ISO/IEC 17025 is held by our partner laboratory, not by Recarbono. Recarbono is not an accredited laboratory and does not claim to be. Accreditation is granted per test method; a claim of accreditation applies only to methods inside the laboratory's accredited scope.",
  "measurement": {
    "unit_of_truth": "batch",
    "chains": [
      "Continuous sensor data at the reactor (mass, temperature, moisture, run boundaries)",
      "Accredited laboratory analysis per batch (organic carbon fraction, H/C ratio, contaminant panel)"
    ],
    "permanence_basis": "Molar H/C ratio as durability proxy (must be at or below 0.7); direct measurement of carbon structure by random reflectance (R0) petrography at highly specialised accredited partner laboratories",
    "durability_claim": "Several centuries — the Puro.earth CORC200+ class and the EU CRCF permanent-removal category. Lower H/C_org supports materially longer persistence; only what the laboratory result supports for a given batch is claimed.",
    "reconciliation_rule": "Where chains disagree, the conservative value is carried forward. Uncertainty is deducted, not averaged. Every adjustment is logged.",
    "lifecycle": "Process, logistics and energy emissions are deducted; a removal is reported net."
  },
  "co_benefits": {
    "note": "Real value for landowners. Never counted as carbon; removals are calculated from durable carbon only.",
    "items": [
      "Reduced wildfire fuel load (residue removed from the land)",
      "Soil water retention, particularly in sandy and drought-stressed soils",
      "Nutrient retention (increased cation exchange capacity), less leaching"
    ]
  },
  "audiences": {
    "buyers": "https://www.recarbono.com/buyers",
    "biomass_suppliers": "https://www.recarbono.com/suppliers",
    "industry_engineering": "https://www.recarbono.com/engineering",
    "investors": "https://www.recarbono.com/investors"
  },
  "content": {
    "llms_txt": "https://www.recarbono.com/llms.txt",
    "glossary": "https://www.recarbono.com/glossary",
    "articles": "https://www.recarbono.com/insights",
    "sitemap": "https://www.recarbono.com/sitemap.xml"
  },
  "not_established": [
    "No published issuance volumes, customer names or operational performance data. Design capacities ARE published (feedstock throughput, and an estimated tCO2e range) and are labelled as design estimates, not results.",
    "First production site is not yet operating; first production follows in 2027.",
    "CarbonVision is in development, not a shipped product.",
    "CRCF certification is still ahead, for the whole industry: the biochar methodology entered into force on 7 May 2026, and certification schemes must first be recognised by the Commission before any operator can hold CRCF-certified units.",
    "Recarbono does not own or operate a laboratory. Any claim that it does is incorrect.",
    "Recarbono has no R&D pilot line in operation. Any claim that it does is incorrect.",
    "The 50,000 t/yr figure is feedstock throughput per facility, not carbon removed. The 18,000-26,000 tCO2e/yr figure for Facility 1 is a design estimate, replaced by measured data once the site operates.",
    "No engineering-service pyrolysis units have been delivered to clients yet; the offer is open for qualification now.",
    "Worked examples in Recarbono articles are labelled illustrative and are not operational data."
  ],
  "goal": "1,000,000 tCO2e per year of certified removals (CORCs) issued at full scale — the 10-year vision. The currently disclosed pipeline is the first wave and does not by itself reach this figure; further units are planned.",
  "last_updated": "2026-07-14"
}