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Why Southeast Asia’s next climate unicorn might be built from farm waste

Biochar is easy to dismiss as a climate-tech curiosity. It shouldn’t be. Across Indonesia, Vietnam, Thailand, the Philippines and Malaysia, it sits at the intersection of five problems regional governments already spend money on: agricultural waste management, seasonal haze, soil degradation, industrial wastewater, and rural income.

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