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Our criteria for the certification of carbon sinks include stringent requirements such as sustainable biomass production, accounting of methane emissions in biochar production, evaluating facility energy efficiency, and meticulously tracking carbon from the atmosphere to the final sink. These are the foundational principles of our standards.
It is a demanding set of parameters that are difficult to control and even more difficult for everyone to comply with. For example, our standards do not allow the use of clearcutting forestry wood, no toxic biochar is used in agriculture, and all emissions are considered in the calculation of carbon sinks.
The precise, gapless calculation of the climate effect of C-sinks and thus the confidence of buyers are the decisive prerequisites for the development of the C-sink market. In the long run, only high-quality C-sinks will prevail on the market. This must be explained and clarified repeatedly.
Despite striving for perfection, we always keep the practical feasibility of our standards in mind. Nevertheless, only those C-sinks that guarantee added value for the climate and society should be traded.
And here is the analogy to competitive sport: you may be lucky enough to achieve a good ranking here and there, but if three C-Sink snowboards make it to the World Cup podium, then this is no coincidence, but the result of hard work and superior material design. Nobody said that winning was easy. But one thing is certain: compromising on quality is a clear indicator of imminent failure.
Of the top 16 riders in the Alpine Snowboard World Cup, 9 ride on snowboards built with EBC-certified biochar. Maurizio Bormolini, our test rider and co-developer, leads the World Cup by a large margin. Quality is no coincidence.
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