Climate resilience & carbon removal across West Africa

More than 33 million smallholder farmers in Africa are vulnerable to the impacts of climate change

Truecoco Ghana’s mission is to improve the livelihoods and climate resilience of smallholder farmers through the creation of a high functioning circular economy that will produce biochar from agricultural waste

What is biochar? Biochar is a unique product. It is created through the pyrolysis of agricultural waste, biochar can improve soil quality and reduces soil acidity

Why in Ghana? Ghana has enormous potential to create high quality biochar due to large quantities of agricultural waste, whilst smallholder farmers suffer due to highly weathered soil with low pH values

How does biochar remove carbon? During the process of pyrolysis, CO2 is locked away in biochar, stopping the waste biomass from decaying – when applied to soil biochar captures the equivalent of 2.5 MTs of CO2.

Circular economy? Truecoco will purchase agricultural waste from smallholder farmers and return the waste in the form of biochar, for a price lower than the market rate

Based in the Western Region of Ghana, Truecoco Ghana ambition is to improve farmer livelihoods and climate resilience through the creation of a high functioning circular economy that will produce biochar.

What is biochar? Biochar is a unique product, that is created through the pyrolysis of agricultural waste, biochar can improve soil quality and reduces soil acidity

Why in Ghana? Ghana has enormous potential to create high quality biochar due to large quantities of agricultural waste, whilst smallholder farmers suffer due to highly weathered soil with low pH values

Circular economy? Truecoco will purchase agricultural waste from smallholder farmers and return the waste in the form of biochar, for a price lower than the market rate

How does biochar remove carbon? During the process of pyrolysis, CO2 is locked away in biochar, stopping the waste biomass from decaying – when applied to soil biochar captures the equivalent of 2.5 MTs of CO2.

Biochar potential & agricultural waste

Ghana is Africa’s largest producer of coconuts (>500k MT p.a), the Western Region accounting for more than 80% of production. Post smallholder processing, most waste is left to decompose in the field leading to CO2 emissions

Due to their high carbon content, coconut husks is an effective biochar, when applied to soils stores nutrients and improves water retention.

Farmer livelihoods

The average smallholder coconut farmer in Ghana earns an estimated annual return of USD 3 – 6.6k p.a

Truecoco will purchase coconut husk waste from smallholder farmers, which will grant farmers an additional revenue stream, and by returning biochar to farmers as soil conditioner, it will reduce additional input costs

Removing CO2 emissions

In the fight against climate change, it is essential that carbon removal projects are the forefront. To avoid the worst consequences of climate change humanity must achieve ‘net zero’ by 2050

Truecoco’s ambition is to remove over 250k MTs of CO2e from the atmosphere by 2030 through the creation and application of biochar. For every ton of biochar produce around 2.5 tons of CO2 are removed

Helping companies to meet NET zero targets

Leading corporates have made strong commitments to significantly reduce their CO2 emissions, and the Science Based Target Initiative (SBTi) has put an onus on companies to roughly halve their emissions by 2030

Corporations will be able to purchase Truecoco’s high quality, puro certified carbon credits that are created over the project.

Coconut and agricultural waste

Ghana is Africa’s largest producer of coconuts (>500k MT p.a), the Western Region accounting for more than 80% of production. Post smallholder processing, most waste is left to decompose in the field leading to CO2 emissions
Due to their high carbon content, coconut husks is an effective biochar, when applied to soils stores nutrients and improves water retention.

Creating carbon credits

In the fight against climate change, it is essential that carbon removal projects are the forefront. To avoid the worst consequences of climate change humanity must achieve ‘net zero’ by 2050
Truecoco’s ambition is to remove over 250k MTs of CO2e from the atmosphere by 2030 through the creation and application of biochar. For every ton of biochar produce around 2.5 tons of CO2 are removed

Additional income to local farmers

The average smallholder coconut farmer in Ghana earns an estimated annual return of USD 3 – 6.6k p.a
Truecoco will purchase coconut husk waste from smallholder farmers, which will grant farmers an additional revenue stream, and by returning biochar to farmers as soil conditioner, it will reduce additional input costs

Helping companies to meet NET Zero targets

Leading corporates have made strong commitments to significantly reduce their CO2 emissions, and the Science Based Target Initiative (SBTi) has put an onus on companies to roughly halve their emissions by 2030
Corporations will be able to purchase Truecoco’s high quality, puro certified carbon credits that are created over the project.

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