We focus on tropical developing countries for 3 main reasons.

1. Agriculture is usually one of the predominant economic sectors and generates massive amounts of crop residues, for which few valorisation schemes exist. This gives us access to abundant and cheap feedstock for biochar production while ensuring no land-use change.
2. Biochar's agricultural effects are most effective on tropical crops (Jeffery et al., 2017), thus improving farmers' income. Additionally, farming costs can be reduced since biochar reduces the need for synthetic fertilisers; in some cases, biochar can even allow for a transition to fully organic farming.
3. Producing electricity from the excess gases of our pyrolysis process provides a stable source of power in rural and often poorly electrified areas.

Therefore, our geographic approach maximises biochar's agricultural and social impact, while optimising our economics.

While pyrolysis is a well-known technology, long mastered industrially, there are many areas of potential improvement to optimise biochar production along NetZero's model.

We have launched an ambitious R&D programme to optimise the underlying technologies, to simplify installation and operations, and to ensure we meet the highest standards of reliability, quality, and security.

NetZero aims at forging long-lasting partnerships with companies serious about their net-zero trajectory, in particular those active in the agricultural sector in tropical developing countries.Through these partnerships, we seek to maximise the climate and social impact of our model, and facilitate our geographical expansion.

We are also partnering with research institutes to further study biochar in a wide range of agronomic conditions.