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Hello everyone! I’m Gijs, and I am excited to share that I’ve recently joined the Oncra team at Climate Cleanup! With an academic background in entrepreneurship and sustainability, I’m passionate about focusing on climate solutions rather than problems. My primary goal is to help streamline and professionalize our processes, making the journey as seamless and…
Uncategorized · ONCRA · Founders · Team · Carbon removal · Operations
Carbon markets are one way to finance carbon removal with nature, and thus the transition from a fossil to regenerative society. With Oncra, Climate Cleanup tries to bring trust in markets, although we believe most in the role of governments to pay for removal (and thus work closely with the EU CRCF). Currently however, voluntary carbon…
Uncategorized · ONCRA · Voluntary carbon markets · Nature based removals · Carbon credits · Eu crcf
In the Dutch nature reserve De Wieden, the team of Restore Carbon is working together with Natuurmonumenten to use mowed wetland vegetation to store carbon. The plant material, rich in carbon, is collected and injected into the soil, effectively storing CO₂ and restoring the peat. It’s a promising example of how natural processes can be…
Uncategorized · Peatland restoration · Wetlands · Carbon sequestration · ONCRA · Nature based solutions
Climate Cleanup’s take on what COP29 means for carbon removal with nature Optical Illusion An “optical illusion” is how India described the agreement reached last Sunday at COP29 in Baku. The negotiating group of least developed countries (LDC), which includes 45 nations and 1.1 billion people, argued that the agreement undermined three years of discussions…
News · Cop29 · Carbon markets · Article 6 · Carbon removal · ONCRA
The National Approach to Biobased Building (NABB) is launching an innovative pilot program that offers farmers additional income for growing crops used in construction. This groundbreaking initiative, implemented through the National Green Fund, allows the Dutch government to directly reward farmers and builders for carbon storage in biobased materials. Sacha Brons, carbon certificate specialist at…
Uncategorized · Biobased construction · Carbon certificates · ONCRA · Regenerative agriculture · Policy
Gerben van Bennekom is working alongside his father, with the aim of improving the soil of their family farm in Renswoude, on the border of Utrecht and Gelderland. Gerben has been experimenting with non-inversion tillage, undersowing maize, bokashi. And has a second business branch of compost, worms and worm mulch. Gerben want “to get the…
Uncategorized · ONCRA · Regenerative agriculture · Soil health · Compost · Land
Into the Great Wide Open (ITGWO) is one of the most sustainable music festival in Europe. For one, they are the first in the world to replace all of their equipment with electrified versions. And even better; they have decided to clean up all their residual emissions with natural carbon removal. With Climate Cleanup they…
Climate Cleanup · News · ONCRA · Carbon removal · Festivals · Climate transition framework · Biobased construction · Carbon accounting
Our friend Pol Knops, co-founder of Paebbl, shares insights about his innovative company’s journey. Paebbl, founded three years ago, developed a groundbreaking process that combines CO2 with olivine to create stone powders for cement and concrete production. This technology could potentially store millions of tons of CO2 in cement, significantly reducing global emissions. Pol, who has worked…
Uncategorized · Olivine · Biobased construction · ONCRA · Regenerative agriculture · Sargassum
In an effort to introduce our entrepreneurs, ambassadors, and followers to each other, we like to feature one person (or organization) in every newsletter. Today, we’re highlighting the work of Heleen Eshuis, the founder of Stichting Bosnodig. Stichting Bosnodig is creating a food forest in the Dutch town of Voorst and has just been certified…
Agroforestry · Climate Cleanup · Entrepreneurs · Food forest · ONCRA · Carbon accounting · Land · Reforestation
Ballast Nedam Development and Climate Cleanup Foundation jointly open the internationalmarket for CO2 storage in construction and real estate projects. Ballast Nedam Development is taking the step as the first construction and development company to market CO2 storage in its housing projects, a historic moment for the real estate and construction sector. The company is…
Climate Cleanup · Event · Materials · News · ONCRA · Uncategorized · Biobased construction · Carbon accounting · Construction · Carbon certificates · Real estate
Eric Litjens is growing the fastest growing tree on earth – which also makes it the tree that is the fastest to sequester carbon. Join the 66th Double Nature Talk! Language: DUTCH Former fruit tree grower Eric Litjens is removing carbon with Paulownia trees. At the Double Nature Lunch Talk on Tuesday 26 September, he…
Climate Cleanup · Double Nature Talk · Entrepreneurs · Materials · ONCRA · Regenerators · Trees · Paulownia · Reforestation · Carbon sequestration · Timber · Land
ONCRA is out in the world. We launched ONCRA live from COP27 with co-founders and removers, from Bamboologic, The Seaweed Company, Scave, Boer in Natuur and greenSand. Take a look at the recording of the launch on our You Tube Channel. Join the ecosystem at oncra.org, and buy regenerative removal credits at onsets.org.
ONCRA · Cop27 · Carbon accounting · Founders · Regenerative agriculture
In December 2021, the European Commission adopted the Communication “Sustainable Carbon Cycles” which sets out an action plan on how to develop sustainable solutions to increase carbon removals. Climate Cleanup with ecosystem partners ASN Bank, Gideon Building Tribes and others advised the Commission on this carbon removal certification framework. This advise can be found here….
Sand / Minerals · Seaweed · Soil · Trees · ONCRA · Carbon removal certification · Policy · Carbon accounting · European commission
Thanks everyone for joining our festive online masterclass on May 26 on scalable climate solutions like seaweed, soil, regenerative (agro)forestry, circulair biobased materials, ONCRA and enhanced weathering. Take a look at the recording on our YouTubeChannel. Happy we had Paul Hawken (Drawdown / Regeneration), Damon Gameau (filmmaker 2040 Join the Regeneration), Matthea de Jong
Climate Cleanup · Club · Drawdown · Event · Sand / Minerals · Soil · Trees · Seaweed · Enhanced weathering · Regenerative agriculture · ONCRA · Biobased construction
To reverse global warming, regenerate nature and to navigate more money to natural climate solutions, we continued working on ONCRA, to the benefit of the global common (for you). Take a look at the beta version of this tool based on the doughnut model of Kate Raworth and the global sustainable development goals. It shows…
Climate Cleanup · Materials · ONCRA · Biobased construction · Carbon accounting · Natural climate solutions · Regenerative agriculture
Since the ONCRA kick-off on September 9th 2020, a lot has happened. We’re delighted to have told you more about our progress at the Double Nature Talk Wednesday February 17 at 8 pm CET. Together with our partners Province of South-Holland, Holland Houtland and NIBE, we’re developing a tool to account for the carbon stored in bio-based buildings….
Climate Cleanup · Double Nature Talk · Event · Materials · ONCRA · Carbon accounting · Biobased construction · Carbon storage · Open source