VER: VOLUNTARY EMISSION REDUCTION
The VER is a voluntary action for the mitigation of our own carbon footprint (CO2), main cause of
greenhouse effect. The VER is joined by companies sensitive to their eco-friendly image.
BIOCHAR
The Biochar is a solid material obtained by the carbonization of biomass, The Biochar can be added to
the soil with the aim to improve soil functions and to reduce emissions of CO2 from biomass, which
otherwise would degrade naturally in greenhouse gases.
MISSION
WHERE THE IDEA OF VERFORFOOD BORN
A growing amount of companies feel the need to mitigate their carbon footprint by enabling voluntary
CO2 compensation, technically defined V.E.R. (Voluntary emission reduction).
These activities are generally related to green marketing projects, in order to improve their image in
front of their consumers, partners or customers.
For example, one of the most used action is the planting of woodlands intended, in the distant future (100
years), to absorb current emissions. An operation with such a long time can’t be spent in communication
company.
One of the emerging solutions to mitigate effectively the carbon footprint is to fix the carbon contained
in forest waste and put it back where the man took it, the earth.
All this is made possible by using Biochar, charcoal obtained by pyrolysis from agroforestry waste
which, once introduced into the soil, will always remain there.
This action (carbon sequestration) will permanently deleted the carbon fixed by pyrolysis from the
atmosphere, by decreasing the amount of CO2 in excess (the main cause of the greenhouse effect).
This thesis is supported for decades by professor eminent scientists from all continents, from universities
around the world and all independent bodies that deal with combating climate change and desertification
on the planet.
The return of carbon to the earth produces a surprising effect of soil fertility and thus contrast to
desertification, in addition to an immediate effect of cleaning of the atmosphere.
If we add carbon (biochar) to the ground of our garden, in the vessels of our flowers, or to the plants of
our orchard, we see them simply grow more lush. But if we perform this operation in a dry ground, this
will become fertile and therefore cultivable.
Since CO2 pollution has no national boundaries, the compensation of our own CO2 emissions are also
effective when performed in another place, even in another continent, where the burial of the carbon
produces effects to combat desertification and facilitate the agricultural crops.
TO UNITE IN A SINGLE ACTION THE NEEDS OF MITIGATION OF OWN
CARBON FOOTPRINT, EXPRESSED BY COMPANIES MORE SENSITIVE TO
ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUES, AS TO FIGHTING POVERTY AND HUNGER
This is the mission of VerForFood
To inspire companies
and world inhabitants
to a responsible action
of reduction its carbon
footprint, through
the implementation
of voluntary emission
reduction
To combat desertification
enhancing soils with
biochar, restoring life to the
ground
To restore fertility to the
land, to turn small plots in
fertile vegetable garden
To assign a fertile garden
to every family that
needs it, to support it in a
practical way
BIOCHAR
THE MOST IMMEDIATE SOLUTION FOR THE REDUCTION OF CO2
The Biochar (charcoal) is a solid material obtained by the carbonization of biomass, transforming
wooden waste (from pure virgin wood) through pyrolysis.
The Biochar has a very high power of carbon sequestration, thus it’s the most immediate solution
to the reduction of CO2. The green scrap (unusable forest residues) contain approximately 60%
carbon. If this material wasn’t pyrolysed, it would degrade progressively to be reintroduced into the
atmosphere as CO2.
Through pyrolysis much of this carbon is fixed, transforming it into Biochar. This action definitely eliminates
the carbon fixed from the atmosphere and returns it to the soil, where it will remain for millennia to come.
The difference between this action and that of planting is evident. In the case of insertion of Biochar in
the soil we have a sure and immediate effect. In the case of planting, the outcome is uncertain even
for the mere fact that people who decide the fate of the forest will be different from those who have
planted it, and if the obtained wood, once matured, were burned or abandoned on the field, the result
of CO2 absorption would be frustrated.
The Biochar can be added to the soil with the aim to improve soil functions and to reduce emissions of
CO2 from biomass, which otherwise would degrade naturally in greenhouse gases.
These properties of Biochar are measurable and verifiable with scientific criteria of absolute
strictness, and easily noticeable in a protocol of carbon emissions compensation.
VERFORFOOD BIOCHAR
The Verforfood Biochar is produced using only
residuals of virgin forest, through a patented process
that ensures a high quality and purity of the product.
This production process, and the same Biochar, are
certified by national and international independent
agencies.
The carbon content of VerForFood Biochar is
always greater than 80%; the remainder is ash, that is
very useful for fertilization of agricultural plot.
The Biochar Verforfood, thanks to its beehive structure, hosts colonies of bacteria that naturally work
to provide nourishment for plant roots. The increased water retention preserves the plant from periods
of drought. The use of charcoal is a very ancient and absolutely natural way to fertilize the acreages;
moreover it’s very effective and long lasting, and its effects are scientifically documented.
VERFORFOOD
USE OF BIOCHAR IN THE FOOD FIELD
Verforfood is an original and innovative project covered by copyright, which aims to hold responsible
the producers of CO2, making them do:
• a concrete act of reduction of their carbon footprint through the use of Biochar
• an action of humanitarian support that improves the quality of life of disadvantaged
people who live in poor countries.
Verforfood project expects to use Biochar
in countries where desertification makes
cultivation impossible, returning land to
sustainable agriculture and giving them to families
that will use them to sustain themselves.
The cooperative that holds the rights of the
project commits to reinvest part of the income
on the land that generated them, enlarging the
solidarity chain.
VERFORFOOD’S RESULTS
Immediate
Each tonne of Biochar
introduced in the soil equals
to remove immediately and
definitively carbon (CO2) from
the atmosphere.
Measurable
Each tonne of Biochar
introduced in the soil equals to
3,5 tonnes of CO2 taken away
from the atmosphere.
Long lasting
The Biochar introduced in the
soil has a duration measurable in
centuries.
VERFORFOOD HELPS DEVELOPING COUNTRIES
By joining VerForFood project both companies and consumers will help populations of developing
countries, as for example Africa, through the creation of fertile gardens made available to families
resident in disadvantaged areas of the world.
A fertile garden is a piece of land adequate to start a micro-business, filled with enough Biochar to
make it naturally fertile for years to come.
This way the company that joins the project, or any other National or International corporation, will be
able to check directly the complete chain of the project, knowing the exact geographic position of their
fertile garden and using this information to promote their image.
Every single piece of land in which will be added a tonne of Biochar will become a fertile garden and will
take the name of the society which wanted to compensate their carbon footprint in that place. The
place can be identified in an univocal and precise way thanks to the geographical coordinates.
Every year an independent agronomist will certify the production originated from the rural activity of the
company that joined the initiative and possessor of VER.
The first project will be launched in 2015, in partnership with Namibia, where some hectares of
land have been made available to create 1000 agricultural micro-businesses to commit to just as many
families.
BIOCHAR’S BENEFITS
Many scientists around the world argue that the use of Biochar is the only concrete action that can
mitigate (or reverse) the process of CO2 pollution of the atmosphere, opposing greenhouse effect, the
main cause of climate change.
The insertion of Biochar in the soil (even in small percentages of 5%, namely from 5 to 7 tons per
hectare) makes it fertile for a long time, countable in centuries, because it improves the structure of
the soil thanks to the inclusion of carbon.
It increases the ability
to retain water and
nutrients
It increases the
microbial activity
It increases fertility with
production increases
that reach even to 30%
It reduces the need
for use of chemical
fertilizers
It improves defense
skills against many
plant diseases
It improves aeration,
structure, porosity,
arability and pH of the
soil
It increases the cation
exchange ability
It reduces the leaching
of soil nutrient factors
The use of Biochar in agriculture is therefore an action of “CARBON SEQUESTRATION,
LAND REMEDIATION, SUSTAINABLE AGRICOLTURE” that fights climate change and
desertification, restoring agricultural land to farm sustainably.
ADVANTAGES
A USEFUL PRODUCT FOR BUSINESS AND CONSUMERS
By joining the project through the purchase of a fertile garden every business can reach three main
objectives:
1. Contrast climate change
2. Balance out effectively and immediately the debts of carbon by reducing voluntarily
their carbon footprint on earth
3. Humanitarian support to less advantaged populations
CONTACTS
GREEN BIOCHAR S.C.A.R.L.
Carbon Sequestration, Land Remediation, and Sustainable Agriculture
VIA PARINI N° 5 – 10121 TORINO
CEL 339.2830038 | P.I. 11022770017
[email protected]