Carbon Herald just published New CATF Tool Enables Users To Evaluate Biomass Carbon Removal Protocols.
Carbon Herald reports that the Clean Air Task Force (CATF) has released a new tool designed to help users evaluate biomass carbon removal protocols. The tool targets the growing set of methodologies covering pathways such as biomass carbon removal and storage (BiCRS), bioenergy with carbon capture (BECCS) and biochar, where crediting rules differ widely across registries. The outlet frames the release as a way for buyers, developers and policymakers to compare how different protocols handle key quality questions for biomass-based removals. The available text does not specify which protocols are covered, what scoring criteria the tool applies, or how outputs are presented, so the full article is the place to look for the actual feature set and CATF’s stated intent.
Our take (Heads-up): A protocol comparison tool from a credible NGO is genuinely useful given how fragmented biomass CDR crediting has become. The open questions are methodology-relevant: does it score feedstock sustainability, counterfactual biomass use, leakage and storage permanence, and who sets the weightings? Without those details in the summary available to us, treat this as a heads-up to inspect the tool directly before relying on its rankings.
-> Read the full piece at Carbon Herald
Captain Drawdown is flagging this. The reporting is Carbon Herald’s. Go read them directly, not a rewrite from us.
Source: Carbon Herald