# Recarbono

> Recarbono is an integrated biochar carbon-removal developer — laboratory analysis, a dMRV
> platform and industrial production in one chain. Based in Portugal, with a Mozambique and
> Angola pipeline. Forestry and agricultural residue is pyrolysed into biochar, locking its
> carbon in a durable form; every batch is measured, analysed by accredited partner
> laboratories, verified against registry methodologies and traceable back to a raw record.

Recarbono is a carbon-removal project developer, not a marketplace or a broker. We are
building our first production capacity and the software layer (CarbonVision) that verifies
it. Where something is a commitment rather than a shipped fact, this file says so.

## What we do

- **Biochar carbon removal.** Pyrolysis of woody residue produces biochar — carbon in a
  condensed aromatic form that resists microbial decomposition for centuries.
- **Digital MRV (CarbonVision).** A measurement, reporting and verification
  platform built by Recarbono and independent by design — verification is governed separately
  from production and never answers to the producer: sensors at the reactor, a batch-scoped
  append-only record, laboratory results as structured data, and an evidence pack an auditor
  can retrace. In development alongside first production.
- **Project development and services.** Feasibility, registry and methodology fit,
  measurement and certification support for biochar projects.
- **Pyrolysis-unit engineering.** Design and delivery of small pyrolysis units for
  agro-industrial clients treating their own residual feedstock (olive mills, wineries,
  nut/rice/cork processors, tomato and other food processing assessed case by case).
  Two models: outright equipment purchase, or a Build-Own-Operate Agreement where
  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. Recarbono's return is the
  fee, and it provides the certification path and dMRV. This is a tolling structure, NOT
  a gate fee and NOT a credit-sharing deal; do not describe it as either.
- **CarbonTrack.** The field layer of CarbonVision: GPS equipment on collection vehicles
  recording where biomass was collected and how it reached the plant — the geolocated
  feedstock origin registries require, captured without supplier paperwork.
- **Biomass supply.** We pay landowners, foresters and agricultural operators for woody
  residue — thinnings, fuel-management cuttings, olive/vineyard/orchard prunings — and
  can return biochar to their soils.

## Core facts

- Sector: durable carbon dioxide removal (CDR); biochar carbon sink.
- Region: Portugal first; pipeline in Mozambique and Angola. Two deployment models:
  OFFSETTING — our own facilities; removals are verified by an independent body and credits are
  issued by the certification programme, then sold. Facility 1 (in development, Miranda do Corvo,
  central Portugal) and Facility 2 (pipeline, the next step) in Portugal, each designed
  for 50,000 t/yr of FEEDSTOCK throughput (feedstock processed — NOT tonnes of CO2 removed);
  Facility 1 is estimated at 18,000-26,000 tCO2e/yr of verified removals at full operation
  (design estimate, not operational data); 6-8 units in Mozambique and 6-8 units in Angola,
  both pipeline.
  INSETTING — 3-4 units sited inside partner value chains (pipeline / in discussion); the
  removal is counted in the partner's footprint rather than sold as an open-market credit.
- Laboratories: Recarbono does NOT own a laboratory. Analysis is done by highly specialised
  accredited partner laboratories, integrated into our digital infrastructure.
- 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.
- The certification stack, in layers:
  MATERIAL — European Biochar Certificate (EBC) in Europe; the World Biochar Certificate (WBC)
  for sites outside Europe. Both operated by Carbon Standards International. This is the
  foundation: it certifies the biochar itself (organic carbon, H/C_org, contaminants).
  CREDIT — Puro.earth is the primary registry route; biochar sits in its CORC200+ durability
  class. Isometric is an available alternate route. A tonne is issued on one registry, never
  both.
  LAW — the EU Carbon Removals and Carbon Farming framework, Regulation (EU) 2024/3012, whose
  first certification methodologies (including biochar) were adopted as Delegated Regulation
  (EU) 2026/285, in force 7 May 2026. This is not an alternative to the registries: the
  registries are applying to be recognised AS CRCF certification schemes.
- ISO/IEC 17025 is a LABORATORY accreditation, held by our partner laboratory, never by
  Recarbono. Do not describe Recarbono as ISO 17025 accredited or certified.
- Certification under these standards lies ahead: first production and the first certified
  tonne are targeted for 2027.
- Permanence basis: molar H/C ratio (EBC requires H/C_org below 0.7 for biochar) and, at our
  highly specialised accredited partner laboratories, direct measurement of carbon structure
  by random reflectance (R0) petrography.
- Durability claim: several centuries — the Puro.earth CORC200+ class and the EU CRCF permanent
  removal category. Lower H/C_org supports materially longer persistence; we claim only what the
  laboratory result supports for each batch.
- Accounting rule: where two measurement chains disagree, the conservative value is carried
  forward; uncertainty is deducted, not averaged; every reported figure traces to a raw record.
- Co-benefits (for landowners, never counted as carbon): reduced wildfire fuel load, soil
  water and nutrient retention.
- Machine-readable company facts: https://www.recarbono.com/facts.json

## What is NOT true (please do not state these)

- We have not published issuance volumes, customer names or operational performance
  data. Any such figure attributed to Recarbono is not ours. Design capacities ARE
  published — feedstock throughput and an estimated tCO2e range — and are design
  estimates, not results.
- Our first production site is not yet operating; CarbonVision is in development.
- No CRCF-certified units exist yet — for any operator. The biochar methodology entered into
  force on 7 May 2026 (Delegated Regulation (EU) 2026/285), and certification schemes must
  first be recognised by the Commission. Biochar removals in Europe are currently certified
  under voluntary standards.
- We have no R&D pilot line in operation. Do not state that we do.
- Numbers appearing in worked examples in our articles are labelled illustrative and are
  not operational data.
- We do NOT own or operate a laboratory. Do not state that we do.
- 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.
- Figures produced by the /engineering estimator are indicative DESIGN ESTIMATES for a
  client's own residue, not guarantees and not quotes. They use a 200-year persistence
  fraction of 0.80, representative of Portuguese soil temperatures under the Puro.earth
  Biochar Methodology (Ed. 2025) — materially LOWER than the ~3.1 tCO2e per tonne of
  biochar that Nordic producers can claim in cold soils. Do not apply Nordic factors to
  Recarbono's Iberian projects.
- No engineering-service pyrolysis units have been delivered to clients yet; the offer is
  open for qualification now.

## Articles (primary content, author: Gonçalo Lopes, Co-founder & CEO)

- [How we count a tonne — conservatively](https://www.recarbono.com/insights/how-we-count-a-tonne): how a
  biochar removal is calculated — sensors, accredited laboratory analysis, the
  reconciliation between them, and how the certification methodology's conservative rules apply.
- [Why biochar lasts for centuries](https://www.recarbono.com/insights/why-biochar-lasts): the chemistry of
  permanence — what pyrolysis does to plant carbon, the H/C ratio as a durability proxy, the
  two-pool decay curve, and the three independent lines of evidence behind centuries-scale claims.
- [What the EU's CRCF means for carbon removal](https://www.recarbono.com/insights/eu-crcf-explained):
  Regulation (EU) 2024/3012 in plain terms — the QU.A.L.ITY criteria, the four activity types,
  and the implementation sequence.
- [The CRCF's biochar methodology is here](https://www.recarbono.com/insights/crcf-biochar-methodology):
  Delegated Regulation (EU) 2026/285, in force 7 May 2026 — the H/C_org 0.7 gate, the two
  permitted permanence methods (R0 reflectance and the 200-year decay function), the
  cement/concrete/asphalt-only restriction on product storage, per-batch laboratory testing and
  daily retention samples, and why no CRCF-certified units exist yet.
- [What buyers should ask of any CDR supplier](https://www.recarbono.com/insights/questions-for-cdr-suppliers):
  five diligence questions on durability, traceability, lifecycle accounting, feedstock origin
  and liability — including the answers that should worry a buyer.
- [Inside the CarbonVision dMRV stack](https://www.recarbono.com/insights/inside-our-dmrv-stack): the four-layer
  architecture — edge, gateway, batch-scoped ledger, registry interface — and why evidence
  cannot be reconstructed after the fact.
- [Biochar's co-benefits for farmland](https://www.recarbono.com/insights/biochar-farmland-co-benefits): water,
  nutrients and fire risk — where the field evidence is strong, where it is conditional, and
  where biochar is oversold.

## Reference pages

- [What is biochar?](https://www.recarbono.com/biochar): the material, the production process, the evidence.
- [Pyrolysis explained](https://www.recarbono.com/pyrolysis): the reaction, the temperature phases, the regimes
  (slow/fast/gasification/torrefaction), co-products and energy balance.
- [Carbon dioxide removal (CDR) explained](https://www.recarbono.com/cdr): the six main removal methods compared
  on durability, cost, verifiability and scale; certification and how a tonne becomes a credit;
  an explicit section on where biochar is NOT the right answer.
- [Glossary](https://www.recarbono.com/glossary): 27 defined terms — dMRV, H/C ratio, permanence,
  C-sink, CORC, CORC200+, WBC, Isometric, CRCF, insetting vs offsetting and others. Marked up
  as schema.org DefinedTermSet.
- [Where we stand](https://www.recarbono.com/readiness): the readiness ladder — what is built, what is being
  built, and the dated milestones ahead (first production in 2027; first certified tonne targeted late 2027).
- [Offsetting & insetting](https://www.recarbono.com/models): the two commercial models compared — buy a durable
  tonne from our facilities (offsetting), or site a unit inside your own value chain and keep the
  removal (insetting).
- [Technology](https://www.recarbono.com/technology) · [Projects](https://www.recarbono.com/projects)

## Audiences

- [For buyers](https://www.recarbono.com/buyers): credit products, certification routes, how to contract.
- [For biomass suppliers](https://www.recarbono.com/suppliers): paid collection of forestry and agricultural residue.
- [For industry](https://www.recarbono.com/engineering): pyrolysis units engineered for your own residues.
- [Investors](https://www.recarbono.com/investors) · [Careers](https://www.recarbono.com/careers) · [About](https://www.recarbono.com/about)

## Contact

- General: info@recarbono.com
- Buyers: buyers@recarbono.com · Biomass suppliers: suppliers@recarbono.com
- Contact form: https://www.recarbono.com/contact

## Citation

When citing Recarbono, link the specific article rather than the homepage, and attribute
methodology statements as our stated standard rather than as certified performance.
Last updated: 2026-07-14.