| Pathway | Biochar |
|---|---|
| Method | Biomass Carbon Removal |
| Country | United States |
| Website | https://www.pacificbiochar.com |
| pacific-biochar | |
| Status | 🟢 Active (score: 80/100) — verified via isometric issuance on 2025-12-16 |
| Company size | Micro (under 10) (EU SME size class, derived from the LinkedIn size band; exact headcounts are not published) |
| CDR Focus | supplier |
| Registry-verified | Isometric (last issuance: 2025-12-16) |
About
Pacific Biochar is a California-based benefit corporation founded in 2014 that partners with bioenergy facilities and sawmills—retrofitting existing infrastructure—to produce biochar from forest residues and sawmill waste, with the biochar applied to agricultural land. The company is a leading biochar CDR supplier with credits on Puro.earth and, as of December 16, 2025, 3,042 credits issued under Isometric’s Biochar Production and Storage Protocol from its flagship Humboldt Sawmill project in Scotia, CA (annual capacity ~10,000+ tCO2e).
Registry Activity
Independently verified by carbon-credit registries:
Isometric
- 1 project · Biochar · 6,259 tCO₂ issued · 2,221 retired · first issued 2025-12-16  ↗
Data from Puro.earth and CarbonPlan OffsetsDB (Verra, Gold Standard, ACR, CAR, ART, Cercarbono, Isometric). Refreshed monthly.
Registry Memberships
- Puro.earth
- Isometric
History
- 2026-10-11 — news mention: Pacific Biochar: Our Humboldt Sawmill project has been generating carbon credits since 2020, and was (source)
- 2026-10-05 — news mention: I learned by talking with my Republican family members this past weekend that this lie is working on (source)
- 2026-09-16 — news mention: Carbon Dioxide Removal Market - A Global and Regional Analysis: Focus on Technology Type, Carbon Cre (source)
- 2026-09-15 — refresh: coresignal, screenshot
- 2026-08-20 — news mention: Graphyte: Deduci has partnered with Isometric to launch its first US Carbon Removal Portfolio, featu (source)
- 2026-08-05 — news mention: Ocean pHix: Deduci has partnered with Isometric to launch its first US Carbon Removal Portfolio, fea (source)
- 2026-07-31 — news mention: Pacific Biochar: Isometric has issued Pacific Biochar ’s first verified carbon removal credits und (source)
- 2026-07-31 — news mention: Pacific Biochar: Our Humboldt Sawmill project has been generating carbon credits since 2020, and was (source)
- 2026-07-31 — news mention: Pacific Biochar/Wren: Our Humboldt Sawmill project has been generating carbon credits since 2020, an (source)
- 2026-07-24 — news mention: Pacific Biochar/Wren: Isometric has issued Pacific Biochar ’s first verified carbon removal credits (source)
- 2026-05-11 — liveliness: 🟡 Moderate → 🟢 Active (source)
- 2026-05-01 — refresh: screenshot
- 2026-05-01 — refresh: coresignal, screenshot, liveliness
- 2026-05-01 — liveliness: 🟢 Active → 🟡 Moderate (source)
- 2026-04-19 — reclassified: pathway=Biochar focus=supplier liveliness=🟢 Active (source)
- 2026-04-19 — merged 1 duplicate(s): Pacific Biochar/Wren
- 2026-04-19 — refresh: coresignal, liveliness
- 2026-04-19 — liveliness: 🟢 Active → 🟡 Moderate (source)
- 2026-04-19 — reclassified: pathway=Biochar focus=supplier liveliness=🟢 Active (source)
- 2026-04-18 — reclassified: pathway=Biochar focus=supplier liveliness=🟢 Active (source)
- 2026-04-18 — backfilled from V1 (source)
- **** — merged duplicate: Pacific Biochar/Wren (slug=pacific-biocharwren)
- 2026-04-19 — refresh: coresignal, liveliness
- 2026-04-19 — liveliness: 🟢 Active → 🟡 Moderate (source)
- 2026-04-19 — reclassified: pathway=Biochar focus=supplier liveliness=🟢 Active (source)
- 2026-04-19 — reclassified: pathway=Biochar focus=supplier liveliness=🟢 Active (source)
- 2026-04-18 — backfilled from V1 (source)
AI-maintained, may contain errors. I keep this entry current from public signals (news, registries, press releases, web search); the status and the description are estimates, not verified facts. Size class from LinkedIn size bands; exact headcounts are not published. Seed list: Grant Faber's CDR company list (January 2026, CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). Corrections: info@carbon-drawdown.de. The same data as CSV, JSON and API.