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Scope zero

Is the business community aware of Scope 0? Since the Paris climate agreement in 2015, reducing greenhouse gas emissions has been prominent on the agenda of governments and businesses. If and how companies take into account cleaning up their historical emissions – aka Scope 0 – , and what vision they have for it is…

News · Scope 0 · Carbon accounting · Carbon dioxide removal · Net zero · Corporate strategy

How Paulownia trees double nature and sequester CO2

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

How to become climate positive

Scave.World: Double Nature Talk, September 12 2023Bart van Beuzekom has a regenerative farm in Portugal and also several hectares in the Netherlands. For example, he produces delicious pasta with old plant varieties. Bart has not been a farmer since childhood; he started five years ago. Because he wanted to take action against the destruction of…

Climate Cleanup · Double Nature Talk · Regenerative agriculture · Carbon credits · Soil carbon · Onsets · Land

Construction Day – Double Nature Summit 2023

The construction sector can be made regenerative with transitions in roughly three areas: energy, materials and social. On May 22 we gathered with about 80 frontrunners in the game to make the construction industry more regenerative. The main takeaways. For Day 1 of the Double Nature Summit, on Constructions, we partnered with Gideon Building Transition…

Climate Cleanup · Event · Biobased construction · Carbon storage · Construction stored carbon credits · Material transition · Carbon accounting

Double Nature Day Recap –Double Nature Summit 2023

On the final day of the Double Nature Summit – May 25 – we gathered in Amsterdam with entrepreneurs, scientists, philanthropists, policy makers, civil servants, funders, people with indigenous perspectives, NGOs, and civil society to weave all the insights together. We explored the idea of humanity as a keystone species in a stewarding role, equipping…

Climate Cleanup · Seaweed · Regenerative agriculture · Blended finance · Indigenous knowledge · Ocean

Wanted: Communicator on Doubling Nature!

Do you want to make a positive difference to the future of people and our planet? Climate Cleanup is an independent nonprofit organization that realizes scalable nature-based climate solutions that store carbon with nature(tech). Because to reverse the current climate, nitrogen and biodiversity crisis, humanity needs to restore the carbon balance in the atmosphere and…

Climate Cleanup · Job posting · Communications · Nature restoration · Carbon removal · Double nature

Double Nature: climate, nitrogen and biodiversity plan

Investors, policy makers, companies and scientists present plan to restore CO2 balance May 25, the Double Nature Plan was presented at the Double Nature Summit in the Netherlands, a four-day event that has brought together a wide range of stakeholders. The plan sets out a number of actions for the sequestration of CO2 from the atmosphere by…

Climate Cleanup · Double nature plan · Seaweed · Regenerative agriculture · Biobased construction · Enhanced weathering

Join the first Double Nature Summit

We would like to warmly invite you to the first four-day Double Nature Summit ever, organised from May 22nd to May 25th, with international partners, in the Netherlands and (partly) online. The summit is for pioneers, scientists, investors and policymakers or for those simply interested in these fields. The leading question is: how to regeneratively double nature to re-store…

Climate Cleanup · Event · ReGeneration · Double nature summit · Carbon removal · Land · Ocean · Rock

Launch ONCRA at the COP27 in Egypt

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

Book launch: Dutch translation Regeneration, ending the climate crisis in one generation

We’re very happy and proud the conversation between Lynn Zebeda and Paul Hawken at Pakhuis de Zwijger in Amsterdam, is online on our channel. Together with publisher Lemniscaat and partners we presented the Dutch translation of the book Regeneration, ending the climate crisis in one generation: Regeneration, de klimaatcrisis opgelost in één generatie, October 1 in Pakhuis…

Climate Cleanup · Event · ReGeneration · Paul hawken · Book launch · Climate solutions · Netherlands

Successes and failures 2021 / 2022

Thanks to our members we have been able to work on a lot of interventions during the year 2021 / 2022. Click and take a look at the summary.

Climate Cleanup · Carbon removal · Member update · Interventions · Impact reporting

Solar Butterfly looking for nectar in Amsterdam

June 26 the Solar Butterfly has visited climate and nature pioneers in the Netherlands. This amazing tiny house that looks like a butterfly is powered by solar and pulled by an electric car, has recently started a 4 years tour around the world, visiting 90 countries and looking for nutritious nectar at around 1000 pioneer projects….

Event · Regenerative agriculture · Nature based solutions · Founders · Outreach · Solar

Ocean stored carbon: join seaweed legend Brian von Herzen

Join our monthly Double Nature Talk featuring seaweed legend Brian von Herzen, who was recently awarded the $1M XPRIZE for his ground-breaking carbon removal project. We’re very curious to see how his Climate Foundation will be scaling up carbon removal using ocean-based solutions. Reef Ranger Amber Stapert is also joining to tell about restoring coral…

Double Nature Talk · Seaweed · Ocean cdr · Coral reefs · Xprize · Marine restoration

Input for European Commission carbon removal certification framework

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

Factsheet Double Nature Netherlands

Based on work by Griscom, WWF and others Climate Cleanup investigated how much carbon can be restored in NatureTech approaches in The Netherlands. Find the full factsheet here.

Uncategorized · Naturetech · Land · Carbon sequestration · Netherlands · Nature based solutions

Biochar adds many values to the soil

Transforming biomass into biochar is a very old way of fertilizing the soil – as well as sequestering carbon dioxide. Biochar is a booming natural climate solution. Perpetual Next’s advisor and longtime cleantech investor Albert Fischer has been working on biochar for quite some time now. He will be joined by Dutch Carboneers Berend de Haas and…

Climate Cleanup · Double Nature Talk · Event · Soil · Biochar · Carbon sequestration · Soil health · Biomass · Land

How rocks and trees collaborate in sequestering gigatons of CO2

Did you know that if we co-deploy reforestation, enhanced weathering of rocks and biochar, we might sequester up to 10 times more carbon per hectare? Wednesday 2nd of March, Future Forest Company founder Jim Mann joined us online to tell about all the ins and outs of Trees and Rocks (and even biochar and therefor mycelium). The…

Climate Cleanup · Double Nature Talk · Event · Enhanced weathering · Reforestation · Biochar · Mycelium · Co deployment

We are the mycelium

Which natural climate solutions are scalable? And how can we accelerate? Wednesday September 1 we kick off a new series of Double Nature Talks live at Tolhuistuin with this most pressing question. How will we remove 1500 gigaton by doubling nature? Mimicking nature, we consider our systemic interventions as mycelium inoculating a growth medium. We…

Climate Cleanup · Double Nature Talk · Event · Double nature talks · Seaweed · Ocean cdr · Enhanced weathering · Biobased construction

Metric enables financial sector to account construction stored carbon

ASN Bank with Climate Cleanup created a metric enabling the financial sector to account for construction stored carbon. This carbon removal metric enables financial institutions worldwide to measure the carbon stored in biobased buildings. In the Netherlands alone, this may add up to around 50 megaton carbon sequestered this decade. Take a look at the…

Climate Cleanup · Double Nature Talk · Event · Materials · Carbon accounting · Biobased construction · Financial sector · Stored carbon · Measurement

And now for something completely different: the government

People in power have to change the world lots of people state often. Have you already seen Greta Thunberg’s speech, on July 2, 2021 at the Austrian World Summit? The role of government is often regarded as the most important one. The 49th Double Nature Talk of July 7 we gave the floor to civil servant…

Climate Cleanup · Club · Double Nature Talk · Event · Policy · Carbon sequestration · Greenhouse gas reduction · Regional government · Climate action

Social Tipping Points to reverse climate change

When discussing climate change, the words tipping points are usually used to address physical phenomena. An international scientific team, led by Ilona Otto from the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK) shows that social tipping points also cause sudden and irreversible disruption of the status quo. Just like physical tipping points do. “Social tipping points are subdomains…

Climate Cleanup · Club · Double Nature Talk · Event · Social tipping points · Emissions reduction · Policy · Systems change · Community

Logic to grow bamboo

Bamboo is known as the fast growing wonder plant from Asia, but the plant does also flourish in Europe and even in the Netherlands. Joost Borneman and Brian Wennersten have devoted their lives to this multi-potent natural climate solution and were therefor asked to present their views and experiences June 23, 8 pm CEST at…

Climate Cleanup · Club · Double Nature Talk · Event · Materials · Bamboo · Reforestation · Land · Biobased construction · Founders

The role of hotspots

At the Double Nature Talk June 16, 8 pm CEST, Matthea De Jong – director Tolhuistuin – shared her vision on culture in the climate emergency and the role of hotspot Tolhuistuin in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, where Climate Cleanup is also residing. Tolhuistuin used to be the offices of Shell. More than 10 years ago…

Climate Cleanup · Club · Event · Imagination · Double Nature Talk · Storytelling · Community · Hotspots · Wangari maathai

Second global conference on enhanced weathering

More and more scientists all over the world are doing research on all kinds of possibilities of CO2 removal by olivine and other minerals. We’ve organized on May 12, 1.30 PM – 17.30 PM CEST the second global conference to create an overview of the research and to bring the network together. An informal bespoke scientific…

Climate Cleanup · Event · Materials · Sand / Minerals · Enhanced weathering · Olivine · Rock weathering · Carbon removal · Conference