a.s.r. real estate and the Climate Cleanup Foundation announced their partnership for certifying CO₂ storage at the PROVADA real estate fair. The CubeHouse is the first building from the ASR Dutch Mobility Office Fund to receive carbon credits through the Open Natural Carbon Removal Accounting (Oncra) initiative. The partnership was signed today in the presence…
Construction Stored Carbon · ONCRA · Biobased construction · Carbon accounting · Cross laminated timber · Real estate
Ballast Nedam Development zet opnieuw een historische stap in de verduurzaming van de bouwsector. Na als eerste ontwikkelaar in Nederland CO₂-opslag uit woningbouwprojecten financieel te waarderen, biedt het bedrijf nu de bijbehorende Carbon Credits aan op de markt. Tijdens de vastgoedbeurs Provada 2025 vond een wereldprimeur plaats: de allereerste Carbon Credit afkomstig uit een woningbouwproject, het Natuurhuis, werd geveild….
News · Construction Stored Carbon · ONCRA · Biobased construction · Carbon credits · Carbon markets
Ballast Nedam Development is once again taking a historic step towards making the construction sector more sustainable. After becoming the first developer in the Netherlands to financially value CO₂ storage from residential construction projects, the company is now offering the corresponding Carbon Credits on the market. A world first took place during the Provada 2025…
News · Construction Stored Carbon · ONCRA · Carbon credits · Biobased construction · Carbon accounting
At the Enhanced Rock Weathering (ERW) conference held this week in Antwerp, colleagues Pol Knops and Lieke van Zon showcased a promising step forward in the field of carbon dioxide removal (CDR). Their poster, titled “Bridging Science and Practice: A Certification Protocol for CO₂ Uptake in Enhanced Rock Weathering,“ presents a novel approach to quantifying…
Rock Stored Carbon · Enhanced rock weathering · Olivine · Carbon accounting · ONCRA · Certification
The Interreg Agro Building Carbon (ABC) project officially launched on the 20th of May with an engaging and fruitful three-day meeting in the Province of Gelderland, marking the start of a four-year collaboration across Europe to drive climate-smart innovation at the intersection of agriculture and biobased construction. The group visited best practices such as Regenerative…
We are so grateful to have hosted our 7th annual event in Amsterdam, celebrating Nature Based Solutions, this year specifically on carbon removal finance and policy. We had over 150 representatives, bringing together entrepreneurs, innovators, investors, and policymakers to explore how carbon finance can unlock the potential of CO₂ removal. We had a great keynote…
We’re excited to announce a bold step forward for the timber construction industry: DERIX Group, one of the leading suppliers for the timber construction industry, has officially entered the world of emissions trading. Working with Oncra, our open framework for bio-based carbon removal, DERIX is now having CO₂ certificates created for considerable amounts of CO₂…
Construction Stored Carbon · Entrepreneurs · ONCRA · Carbon credits · Biobased construction · Mass timber · Emissions trading
How can we make building with wood and other natural materials economically attractive as well? That’s the question Jelle de Bijl works on every day. He works at Climate Cleanup, an organization that accelerates natural climate solutions by simply assigning them value. “What we do is facilitate carbon credits for parties that store CO₂ in…
Climate Cleanup · Construction Stored Carbon · Biobased construction · Carbon credits · ONCRA · Timber · Carbon accounting
This summer, we’re excited to present our Rock-Stored Carbon (RSC) Protocol at two major conferences: ERW25 at the University of Antwerp and Goldschmidt in Prague! This will be a great opportunity for us all to share our progress, engage in discussions and ultimately refine the protocol with the broader scientific community. You can read the current draft and share…
Rock Stored Carbon · Enhanced rock weathering · Carbon protocols · Olivine · Carbon accounting · Erw
Supported by the municipality of Amsterdam and initiated by our colleagues at Copper8, we co-authored a whitepaper on carbon sequestration in construction materials for Dutch markets and policy makers. Key insights include: Read the full whitepaper here.
Construction Stored Carbon · Biobased construction · Carbon accounting · Carbon credits · Policy · Carbon sequestration
On May 15th, Carbon Farmers‘ Lars Hillewaere is committing to a crazy project: he will run 100 km along the entire shoreline of Belgium, his home country. With this act on the International Day of the North Sea, he wants to raise awareness for our oceans and their precious biodiversity. That’s why he’s also raising…
Club · Entrepreneurs · Ocean · Marine biodiversity · Ecosystem restoration · Fundraising · North sea
How can we fund entrepreneurs who remove carbon through nature? That question led to the creation of ONCRA, our initiative to help both large- and small-scale Removers quantify and monetise the carbon they store. Many frontrunners identified this as a key need, and now it’s paying off: over 80 projects have been certified, real project…
In just a few weeks, the Climate Cleanup CDR Conference will be held at Tolhuistuin, Amsterdam. Here, frontrunners of the CDR sector gather, including the provinces of North and South Holland, Utrecht and Gelderland. They support the already 6th Climate Cleanup Conference (if you count the Ambassador’s 1500 Club Launch and its first anniversary). As green carbon removal is increasingly…
Climate Cleanup · Club · Event · Cdr · Green carbon removal · Nature based solutions · Carbon finance · Conference
Green carbon removal, a €429 billion opportunity Carbon Dioxide Removal (CDR), the process of removing and storing CO₂ from air and oceans, is gaining increasing global attention, including recently in the Netherlands. Sophie Hermans, the Dutch Minister of Climate and Green Growth, recently presented a comprehensive roadmap, while the Province of Gelderland, in collaboration with…
Agroforestry · Construction Stored Carbon · News · Carbon dioxide removal · Policy · Regenerative agriculture · Biobased construction · Nature based solutions
“There’s no feeling like seeing stuff green and alive and fruit starting to form.” – Karim Kouddous Setting up a syntropic farm is like software development, Kareem ascertains while showing us the irrigation system. You have complex systems that interact, parts of the system are developed in sprints, you have to test and see how…
We are thrilled that Paul Hawken, author of Drawdown and Regeneration, has a new book out that resonates with our work at many levels: Carbon, the Book of Life. It might help us all to refrain from carbon reductionism and embrace a holistic vision: carbon not as a molecule, but as the carrier of energy,…
Stichting Re/Generatie is organizing a Regeneration Week from April 26 to May 3 (during the May holiday) in Catalunya, Spain, and there are still a few spots left! You wake up to a symphony of birdsong and step outside to find yourself surrounded by rolling hills. Everywhere you look, the vibrant green of young medicinal herbs and plants catches…
Event · Regenerative agriculture · Land · Community · Education
What is a harvest share? For one season, you can come and harvest fruit, vegetables, herbs, oyster mushrooms and flowers with us for a fixed amount per year. By buying a harvest share or several harvest shares, you will receive an e-mail every week with what can be harvested per share. A harvest share is…
Uncategorized · Regenerative agriculture · Food production · Community supported agriculture · Land · Biodiversity
CDR.fyi, the word’s leading CDR market analysis platform, released their 2024 Year in Review. In the review they analyses the major trends in the durable carbon removal market. It is a great resource to find data like market volume and price developments. Here are some key highlights:📈 Durable CDR purchases grew 78% to nearly 8…
In only 62 days we will convene with leaders in the Nature-based CDR ecosystem in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Innovative entrepreneurs in carbon removal, policy makers from the Provincial to national and European level, as well as investors across CDR buyers, philanthropy, banks and institutional investors will meet and work with you on scaling the regenerative…
The Agro Building Carbon (ABC) project receives a European INTERREG grant. The project is about sequestering CO2 (carbon dioxide) in crops and trees, which are then used as building materials. The project contributes to achieving our climate goals. ABC stands for Agro Building Carbon. This is the combination of agriculture, construction and carbon in the…
Agroforestry · Construction Stored Carbon · Materials · Biobased construction · Carbon sequestration · ONCRA · Policy · Regenerative agriculture
Bart van Beuzekom was at the European Carbon Farming Summit in Dublin, Ireland, for Scature and to represent Climate Cleanup. He reports that “the Summit featured a significant presence of scientists, which was encouraging to see. However, a notable observation was the substantial allocation of research funding towards validating already established conclusions from decades past using cutting-edge…
We are happy that Carbon Dioxide Removal (CDR), the removal and storage of CO₂ from air and oceans, is gaining increasing global attention, and recently also in the Netherlands. The Ministry of Climate and Green Growth of Sophie Hermans recently presented a comprehensive National Roadmap, while Province Gelderland conducted a market surveywith other provinces, carried out by…
This March, Climate Cleanup with partners like Oceanus International and Climate Foundation sets sail to actually sink carbon in the Caribbean, turning the problem of sargassum seaweed into an innovative climate solution. After four years of feasibility study we now think this is indeed feasible, and now need to find out what the possible positive and negative effects on…
Climate Cleanup · News · Sargassum · Ocean cdr · Seaweed sinking · Founding funders · Field pilot
