About NetZero
Founded in 2021, NetZero started as a 3-generation family project to leverage the potential of biochar for carbon removal and sustainable agriculture.
Headquartered in France and operating in Brazil, the company is a leading player of biochar systems.
Our unique approach combines fully integrated industrial biochar solutions with world-class operational standards to deploy biochar in agro supply chains.
Bringing biochar at scale — for climate and people, now.
We use biochar to tackle 3 pressing challenges
Fighting climate change
- High-permanence, measurable, and certified carbon removal
- Avoided greenhouse gas emissions as co-benefits
Enabling sustainable agriculture
- Significant increase in crop yield
- Lower use of fertilisers
- Sustainable disposal of crop residues
Fostering rural development
- Increased income for farmers
- Creation of well-paid, industrial jobs
- Co-generation of renewable energy
Awards and certifications
Winner of the XPRIZE Carbon Removal, the most prestigious prize in the industry — a 4-year competition funded by the Musk Foundation whose purpose was to select the world's top 4 carbon removal projects, among 1,300+ competing projects.
Recipient of the Efficient Solution label by the Solar Impulse Foundation, awarded to sustainable solutions that meet stringent Economic, Environmental, and Feasibility criteria, assessed by independent experts.
Green Tech prize winner of the Tech for Good Awards, promoting every year at the ChangeNOW summit the most innovative start-ups using technology to serve the common good.
NetZero projects are certified under the ICROA-accredited Puro Standard, the world's leading certification standard for high-permanence carbon removal projects.
Our approach
We focus on tropical regions where residual biomass is most abundant, where biochar's agricultural potential is greatest, and where social impact is maximised.
Through own and partner-operated projects, we produce biochar at industrial scale with proprietary technology, along a local and circular approach.
Our unique approach makes biochar affordable for farmers, helps companies neutralise their unavoidable emissions, and co-generates renewable energy — all at once.