Why Uganda
An ideal jurisdiction for durable, community-anchored carbon removal
An ideal jurisdiction for durable, community-anchored carbon removal
Uganda combines the three things a biochar carbon removal project needs most: a large, renewable and currently underused residue stream; farming systems that gain immediate agronomic benefit from biochar; and a national climate framework that gives carbon projects a defined route to market.
Agriculture employs the majority of Uganda's workforce and dominates land use. Coffee, banana, maize, rice, groundnut and sugarcane systems generate millions of tonnes of residue every year — much of it burned, dumped or left to decompose.
Coffee husks, peanut and rice husks, maize cobs and bagasse are concentrated at processing points, making them cheap to aggregate and ideal pyrolysis feedstock — with no land-use change and no competition with food production.
Widespread soil acidity, nutrient depletion and erosion across Ugandan smallholder farmland mean biochar delivers measurable yield and water-retention gains, not just carbon storage. Climate benefit and farmer benefit point the same way.
Uganda's National Climate Change Act and its accompanying regulations set out a formal process for approving carbon projects and authorising credit transfers, including under Article 6 of the Paris Agreement. Projects have a defined regulatory counterparty.
An established network of cooperatives and processing hubs makes it possible to contract feedstock supply, return biochar to the same communities, and evidence chain of custody at scale.
Woodcross Resources already runs industrial operations in Mbarara, giving Kaboni local engineering, logistics and workforce capability from day one — a substantial de-risking factor for a first-of-a-kind facility.
Provides the legal basis for Uganda's participation in international carbon markets and for the domestic approval of mitigation projects.
Projects are registered and assessed under the national regulations, with a Letter of No Objection providing host-country recognition.
Uganda has actively engaged with Article 6 cooperation, supporting authorised transfers of mitigation outcomes to international buyers.
The project is being developed to Verra's Verified Carbon Standard, so credits carry both host-country recognition and independent verification.