2022 North American Biochar & Bioenergy Conference
Morgantown, WV, USA

“Decarbonizing our Economy”

Program Introduction

Dear Participants,

United States Biochar Initiative joins MASBio and West Virginia University in welcoming you to the 2022
North American Biochar & Bioenergy Conference. The biochar community has grown and matured since
our first conference in 2009. We look forward to exchanging ideas with representatives from Europe, Africa,
Asia, Oceania, and the Americas.

USBI is a not-for-profit organization promoting the production and use of biochar in North America. We
promote biochar for sustainable food security, improved soil fertility, and environmental and climate
resilience. Our vision is to leave a legacy of fertile soils and carbon sequestered by raising awareness of
and increasing the utilization of biochar through collaboration with organizations involved in production,
application, and research. We engage the scientific, agriculture, and biomass communities to use safe,
stable, and sustainable biochar. We endeavor to learn, educate, inform, demonstrate, and develop
markets, policy incentives, and quality standards. The USBI board of directors includes biochar producers,
technology developers and suppliers, research, agricultural extension, policy and education. We are
grateful for the support from our sponsors and our conference partners.

Thank you for attending. We look forward to a productive conference

Thomas Miles
USBI Executive Director