FAQs

A PBiA network is comprised of local, usually municipal level organizations from at least three sectors: a) farmers organization, b) the local government unit, c) a rural development non-government organization (NGO). This network is the one that actually produces the biochar, incorporates it in the soil, validates and verifies the quantity and the location of the farmland, and reports to the PBiA every 1 ton or 1,000 kilos of activity.

To have local biochar networks all over the country so that the sight of burning rice hulls and rice straw will be a thing of the past and instead these by-products are converted into biochar and incorporated into the soil of small farmers to help improve their productivity without raising their cost of production.

At PBiA we want to not only lock away 1 ton of carbon dioxide per sticker, but we want to do it in a way that uses agricultural by-products that are now being burned, and at the same time have this biochar improve the small farmers production.

You may compute it as follows: 1 liter of gasoline emits .65 kilos of carbon dioxide while 1 liter of diesel emits .735 kilos of carbon dioxide as per the U.S. Department of Energy. Therefore, you may compute your vehicles carbon emissions by determining how many kilometers you get per liter and then determining how many kilometers you operate the vehicle in a year. In effect, if a gasoline powered vehicle gets 8 kilometers per liter, then for every 12,300 kilometers, it generates 1 ton of carbon dioxide. This means that if you want to be carbon negative, you have to purchase 1 sticker for every 10,000 kilometers or less, depending on how negative you want to be.