The Standard for Technically Advanced Biochar Kilns (TAK)

The TAK Standard is developed by those who made biochar production and CDR a global reality. With deep knowledge of the technology in all its stages, from highly automated to artisanal, we know how to certify it without overclaiming, without double counting, and without copy-pasting from other standards. The science that established pyrolytic carbon as a persistent C-sink, the flame-curtain kilns that carried biochar production to farmers on every continent, and the certification frameworks the industry now works from were developed here - by Carbon Standards International and the Ithaka Institute, across two decades of field work and open-access, peer-reviewed publications. Others apply that science, use those kilns, and adapt those frameworks; TAK breaks the trail.