Carbon removal · Southeast Asia
Every harvest, Southeast Asia burns what it cannot use. Reclimate pyrolyses that residue into biochar — carbon locked in a solid lattice for over a century — then verifies the removal and routes the finance back to the people who grew it.
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A rice mill in Kedah produces husk faster than anyone can use it. It piles up behind the dryer until someone sets it alight, and a season of captured carbon goes back into the air in an afternoon. Multiply that by every mill, estate and smallholder from the Peninsula to Sulawesi.
That residue is not waste. It is feedstock. Heated without oxygen it becomes biochar, and the carbon the plant pulled down last season stops being temporary. We build the kilns, measure what comes out of them, and make the removal bankable — on the same ground the biomass came from.
How the process works
The problem
Carbon removal works. Access to it does not. Project development costs six figures before the first tonne is verified, methodologies are written for consultants, and registries expect documentation a smallholder cooperative has no way to produce.
So the market consolidates around a handful of large operators, and the communities living with the emissions — the ones with the biomass, the land and the most to gain — are priced out of the thing designed to pay them.
The method
Biochar is only a removal if you can prove it stayed put. Five controlled stages turn loose residue into a carbon lattice soil microbes cannot easily break down — each one instrumented, sampled and written to the registry record.
Palm EFB, rice husk and forestry residue that would otherwise decompose or burn. If the biomass had another life, it does not qualify.
Eligible streams EFB · husk · forestry
Mechanical processing to a uniform particle size, then solar and waste-heat drying until moisture falls below the pyrolysis threshold.
Moisture < 10%
Held in a low-oxygen chamber at target temperature. Higher, steadier heat builds a more stable chemical lattice and a higher fixed-carbon fraction.
Target 600–900 °C
Immediate water quenching arrests the reaction and fixes the structure. Nutrient inoculation happens here, before the char leaves the site.
Cooling Immediate quench
Lab analysis against the durability benchmark confirms carbon stable beyond a century. Verified removals are issued on a global registry.
Permanence 100+ years
Biochar is recognised as a durable removal pathway by the IPCC, the EU CRCF, the ICVCM Core Carbon Principles and SBTi.
Certified, rated and audited under
Who we work with
Waste is a resource
Your residue already has volume, consistency and a disposal cost attached. We site the pyrolysis unit at the mill, take the feedstock off your hands, and share the carbon revenue it generates — no capital outlay from you.
Soil first
Biochar returns to the land it came from. It holds water through dry spells, carries nutrient rather than leaching it, and lifts yield on tired ground — while the carbon underneath is what the market is buying.
Durable removals
Engineered, century-durable removals with elemental analysis behind every batch and a traceable line back to the feedstock. Contract forward on named projects instead of buying from an anonymous pool.
Scope 3
If your agricultural inputs come from this region, the removal can happen at the same mills you already buy from — emissions addressed where they occur, with a story your sourcing team can actually tell.
Diversion
Organic waste heading for open burning or landfill becomes a measurable removal instead of a methane source. We take the tonnage and the paperwork that proves where it went.
The platform
Most projects die between the kiln and the registry. We run all three layers ourselves, which is why our tonnes arrive verified instead of pending.
We design and build on the ground with local partners — siting, equipment, operator training and the offtake relationships that keep a unit running after year one.
Production, sampling and lab results captured at the source and carried through to issuance. One record per batch, auditable without a site visit.
Issuance, buyer matching and settlement — with the revenue split defined before the first tonne is produced, so the farm side is not the part that gets renegotiated.
Where it happens
Our first operating programme. Mill residue across peninsular and Bornean sites converted on location, with the char returning to surrounding farmland.
Project detail
Scaling the model across Indonesian smallholder networks — distributed units, shared MRV, one issuance pipeline serving many sites at once.
Project detailThe company
Reclimate started as one biochar project in Malaysia, built to make climate action reachable for farming communities rather than for the institutions around them. It now runs across the Global South, helping producers remove carbon, cut emissions and bring tired farmland back.
Methodologies grounded in rigorous science and verifiable data. We bring receipts for everything.
Smallholders get real access to the carbon economy — profiting from the fight, not just surviving it.
Built for people who actually work the land. Easy, transparent and fair by default.
What was burned last season becomes stored carbon, better soil and income this one.
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Contact
Tell us which door you are coming through and the email opens ready to send. Feedstock owners, biochar buyers and corporates with a removal target all start here.
