Background

    As a new frontier of bioeconomy, biochar provides a “Black for Green” solution jointly in biowastes management, climate stabilization, land degradation neutrality and food production. Agricultural application of biochar meets the goal of green transition of agricultural system, an initiation called by FAO following the UNFCCC COP 27 in 2022. Biochar can also contribute to boost soil health and food, called by the European Mission of a Soil Deal 2022. Moreover, biochar from crop residues may also help to reinforce land productivity and food production for rural agro-industry, a China national call in 2023. Meanwhile, production of biochar and biochar-based products could help to create a potential market for carbon credit exchange and trading nationally and globally. Biochar fertilizer is a nutrient-rich soil amendment that improves soil fertility and crop yield. Biochar production from diverse biowastes contributes to the green growth and circular economy.

    Norway, a leading country in bioeconomy, is cooperating with China’s partners on sustainable development of agriculture, which included biochar-based agriculture technology. NJAU and NIBIO has established collaborations with Sinograin II project. This ongoing project aims to contribute to climate smart food production for food security with the joint efforts of Norway and China. NJAU successfully organized a global conference on biochar and green agriculture sponsored by UNEP/GEF B4SS project in 2015, a global summit of Biochar for Green Development (B4GD) in 2019. For meeting the new demand for climate smart and healthy agriculture, Nanjing Agricultural University and NIOBIO are co-organizing a new international workshop on “Biochar for climate smart food production, green growth and soil health(SiNorBiochar 2023). This event is the 2nd part of the Sinograin II project annual meeting 2023, the field workshop with Chinese and Norwegian Sinograin II consortium partners. We cordially invite scientists, engineers and bioeconomy developers in biochar sector over China and beyond, to make this event successful.

Workshop theme and scope:

    The event is aimed to enhance the exchange and sharing of the state-of-art of biochar production and characterization for safe and carbon negative waste management, of innovation of functional biochars and biochar-based products, and of the effects on, and benefits for, soil regeneration with soil health and food quality as well as climate change mitigation. Special concerns are given to soil and environment friendly agriculture linked to rural development with biochar technologies. A DEMO project will be visited in a field trip.    

Conference theme：Sino-Norwegian Workshop on Biochar for Climate-smart Food Production, Green Growth and Soil Health

Dates: June 7 – 10, 2023.

Venue: International Conference Hotel Nanjing, 2 Sifangcheng, in the park of Sun Yat-sen‘ Mausoleum, Nanjing, China

Traffic information：

1. At the airport: Shuttle to downtown (25CNY single ticket) is regular in 45 min interval in day time and maximum 30 min in night time. Take a shuttle to Nanjing Railway Station, then take a taxi (about 30 CNY) directly to the hotel (NIC).

You can take a taxi directly to the hotel, costing almost120-130 CNY.

2.At Nanjing South Railway Station:

Take Metro Line 3 at Nanjing South Railway Station, get off at Daxinggong Station, transfer to Metro Line 2, get off at Muxuyuan Station, and then take a taxi (15 CNY) to the hotel.

You can take a taxi directly to the hotel, which costs about 45 CNY.

3.Nanjing Railway Station:

Take Metro Line 3 at Nanjing Station, get off at Daxinggong Station, transfer to Metro Line 2, get off at Muxuyuan Station, and then take a taxi (15 CNY) to the hotel.

You can take a taxi directly to the hotel, which costs about 30 CNY.

Meeting agenda:

Key speakers:

1.Ambassador Signe Brudeset, The Royal Norwegian Embassy in Beijing

2.Knut Arild Thonstad, Development counsellor, The Royal Norwegian Embassy in Beijing

3.Nils Vagstand, Director General, NIBIO

4.Thomas Hansteen, The Research Council of Norway

5.Yakov Kuzyakov,University of Gottingen

6.Genxing Pan, Nanjing Agricultural University (Agrochar: a green agricultural deal with healthy soil and food)

7.Weixiang Wu,Zhejiang University

8.Tao Long,Nanjing Institute of Soil Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences

9.Simon Chen,Vitol Energy Limited (China)

10.Ruy Anaya de la Rosa,Unep/Global Environment Facility, Australia

11. Ji Chen, Arhus University

12. Stephen Joseph, University of New South Wales, Australia

Sponsors:

Nanjing Agricultural University

SCOPE Soil Health Commission

NIBIO (through the Sinograin II project)

Co-sponsors:

Biomass to Biohcar (B2B）Center, IREEA, Nanjing Agricultural University

Zhishan Shiyan Cooperative Farm

Conference fee standard:

Pay before May 20th, enterprise personnel 2450 yuan/person, other personnel 1450 yuan/person; 

Pay after May 20th, enterprise personnel 2800 yuan/person, other personnel 1800 yuan/person.

Please pay the registration fee to the account of Nanjing Agricultural University

(Please note "SiNor Biochar 2023 and name of participants" when transferring)

Contact:

Xiaoyu Liu Email: xiaoyuliu@njau.edu.cn Tel：13451810912

Genxing Pan Email:gxpan@njau.edu.cnpangenxing@aliyun.com

Tian Jing Tel：13936560534

Please fill out the attached registration form and send it to xiaoyuliu@njau.edu.cn by May 20, 2023