{"content":[{"text":"January 2013","bbox":{"left":0.147059,"top":0.204849,"width":0.14493100000000003,"height":0.020818000000000003}},{"text":"What will 2013 look like for IBI? \n By IBI Executive Director, Debbie Reed","bbox":{"left":0.147059,"top":0.247576,"width":0.34111700000000006,"height":0.036433999999999994}},{"text":"In this new year, IBI plans a continued focus on providing the necessary underpinnings of \n a successful biochar industry at all scales, to benefit soil health and productivity, and to combat \n global climate change. We believe that sustainable and well designed biochar systems and \n projects with measureable impacts will most benefit biochar implementation and acceptance \n worldwide by providing operational models that can be replicated. As part of this focus, we will:","bbox":{"left":0.147059,"top":0.295718,"width":0.6854039999999999,"height":0.07541300000000001}},{"text":"","bbox":{"left":0.176471,"top":0.387735,"width":0.00753100000000001,"height":0.015498999999999985}},{"text":"Soon finalize and launch the IBI Biochar Certification Program, the first such biochar \n certification program in the world, to provide additional certainty in the biochar \n marketplace; \n Continue working on a Biochar Offsets Protocol with our partners, including The Climate \n Trust, who is leading this effort (http://www.biochar-international.org/protocol), in order to \n provide the necessary technical documentation to support the inclusion of biochar \n projects in carbon markets and global climate change mitigation programs; \n Draft full IBI Biochar Sustainability Guidelines with stakeholder input, to provide additional \n guidance and certainty to the biochar community, to our stakeholders and the \n marketplace (http://www.biochar-international.org/sustainability); \n Increase biochar project and commercialization data tracking in order to describe the \n state of the biochar industry, to track its incredible growth and document success stories, \n and to provide this information to investors and potential supporters who regularly seek \n such information; \n Continue to support policy efforts which can increase support for biochar research, \n development, demonstration and deployment, at national and international levels; \n Continue to publicize leading biochar news (http://www.biochar- \n international.org/newsbriefs); projects (http://www.biochar- \n international.org/projects/practitioner/profiles); events and research (http://www.biochar- \n international.org/biblio); through our website, newsletter (http://www.biochar- \n international.org/newsletter), and regional and national conferences; and \n Continue to support and participate in the many international biochar conferences where \n the biochar community convenes and shares and learns from each other.","bbox":{"left":0.205882,"top":0.386854,"width":0.645713,"height":0.341853}},{"text":"","bbox":{"left":0.176471,"top":0.432053,"width":0.00753100000000001,"height":0.015498999999999985}},{"text":"","bbox":{"left":0.176471,"top":0.490993,"width":0.00753100000000001,"height":0.01549900000000004}},{"text":"","bbox":{"left":0.176471,"top":0.535462,"width":0.00753100000000001,"height":0.01549900000000004}},{"text":"","bbox":{"left":0.176471,"top":0.594326,"width":0.00753100000000001,"height":0.01549900000000004}},{"text":"","bbox":{"left":0.176471,"top":0.62425,"width":0.00753100000000001,"height":0.01549900000000004}},{"text":"","bbox":{"left":0.176471,"top":0.697659,"width":0.00753100000000001,"height":0.01549900000000004}},{"text":"We thank you for another year of support and mutual learning and progress, and extend our \n warmest wishes to you in 2013. We ask for your continued support as we expand the services we \n offer and create new programs. Thank you again for your support of IBI and biochar. Please feel \n free to contact me with questions or comments on IBI.","bbox":{"left":0.147059,"top":0.743521,"width":0.703762,"height":0.06094300000000008}},{"text":"Regards,","bbox":{"left":0.147059,"top":0.816097,"width":0.066353,"height":0.017383000000000037}},{"text":"Debbie Reed \n Executive Director, IBI","bbox":{"left":0.147059,"top":0.874203,"width":0.16165000000000002,"height":0.03192800000000007}}],"images_bbox":[{"left":0.147059,"top":0.068182,"width":0.720686,"height":0.118636},{"left":0.147059,"top":0.837197,"width":0.147059,"height":0.036136}],"images_bbox_not_text_overlap":[{"left":0.147059,"top":0.068182,"width":0.720686,"height":0.118636},{"left":0.147059,"top":0.837197,"width":0.147059,"height":0.036136}]}