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Robert Pol is 62 years old, married, and the father of thirty-year-old twins. He works as a senior innovator at Van Aalsburg, a family business now in its third generation. “A wonderful title,” he calls it himself. His work? Developing new products based on willow. “When I was six years old, I already wanted to…
Entrepreneurs · Materials · Trees · Willow · Carbon storage · ONCRA · Nature based solutions · Biobased construction
What does it take to transform the way we build, grow food, and relate to the planet? In this conversation, Jelle de Bijl (Certification Manager at Construction Stored Carbon) and Gijs Tolmeijer (Business Developer for both Climate Cleanup and Oncra), both working at Climate Cleanup, sit down to talk about their work, what drives them,…
Climate Cleanup · Club · Intervention Team · Regenerative agriculture · Biobased construction · Food forest · ONCRA · Founders
Woody Builders creates commercial buildings that work with nature instead of against it. Using wood, technology and bio-based materials, they design structures that store CO₂, reduce emissions and offer healthier, more inspiring places to work and live. Thanks to their Oncra certification, their wooden designs are not only environmentally sustainable, but also financially sound and future-proof, giving…
Construction Stored Carbon · ONCRA · Biobased construction · Mass timber · Carbon storage · Commercial buildings
Last week, our Construction Stored Carbon lead Sacha was in Brussels to attend the EU Expert Group on Carbon Removals. Under the Carbon Removals and Carbon Farming (CRCF) Regulation, the EU will enforce certification methodologies for permanent carbon removals (1), carbon farming (2) and carbon storage in (building) products (3). These methodologies are developed in…
Agroforestry · Construction Stored Carbon · ONCRA · Rock Stored Carbon · Carbon accounting · Policy · Biobased construction · Carbon storage · CRCF
To maximise the amount of carbon your store in a biobased building, it is key to calculate the carbon storage of different designs quickly, easily and accurately. Having an accurate and understandable calculation method also enables everyone in the value chain, from developer to tendering municipality, to set clear goals. These two worlds, of design and goal-setting,…
Construction Stored Carbon · Carbon accounting · Biobased construction · Carbon storage · Construction · Policy
🌱 De toekomst van bouwen is biobased. Ben jij klaar om de bouwsector te verduurzamen met data én praktijkervaring? Wij zoeken een Medior Certification & Data Manager die impact wil maken met biobased bouwen & Nature Based Solutions! Over ons Om de huidige klimaat-, stikstof- en biodiversiteitscrisis te keren, moet de mensheid de koolstofbalans in…
Intervention Team · Construction Stored Carbon · ONCRA · Biobased construction · Carbon certification · Jobs
Dinsdag 16 december 16:00-17:00 Goed nieuws! De Regeling Stimulering Vezelteelt (RSV) gaat eind november opnieuw open. De RSV van het Ministerie van LVVN wordt uitgevoerd door het Nationaal Groenfonds en biedt financiële steun aan boeren en verwerkers die vezelgewassen telen of verwerken tot biobased bouwmaterialen. Deze gewassen – zoals hennep, vlas, wilg en miscanthus –…
Agroforestry · Event · Trees · ONCRA · Carbon accounting · Biobased construction · Fiber crops · Carbon credits
🌱 De toekomst van bouwen is biobased. Ben jij klaar om de bouwsector te verduurzamen met data én praktijkervaring? Wij zoeken een stagiair(e) die impact wil maken met biobased bouwen & Nature Based Solutions! Wil jij bijdragen aan de transitie naar een duurzame bouwsector? Wij zijn actief in de innovatieve wereld van biobased bouwen en…
Climate Cleanup · Construction Stored Carbon · Intervention Team · Biobased construction · Carbon accounting · Nature based solutions · Data analysis · Internship
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
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…
Climate Cleanup · Policy · Biobased construction · Regenerative agriculture · Carbon sequestration · Interreg
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
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
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
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
Climate Cleanup Foundation reacts to an internet consultation by the Dutch government, arguing that adding natural carbon removal to the Climate Plan‘s section on removal offers many opportunities for not only removing and storing carbon, but also for restoring nature, human and animal health, and developing the regenerative circular biobased economy. Read the reaction here…
News · Policy · Carbon removal · Regenerative agriculture · Biobased construction · Nature restoration
Sacha Brons on LinkedIn: “Waaa ik won gisteravond bij de Klimaattop Gebouwde Omgeving de Young Professional Award 2024! Ik sta op #10 van de Duurzame 50 in de Nederlandse bouwsector en ben daarmee de hoogst geplaatste jongere onder de 30. Gefeliciteerd aan #1 Andy van den Dobbelsteen en alle andere genomineerden. Wat een eer om…
Uncategorized · Biobased construction · Carbon accounting · Built environment · Founders · Carbon storage
Hello everyone! I’m Jelle de Bijl, and I’m thrilled to join the Construction Stored Carbon team at Climate Cleanup Foundation. As a recent graduate with a degree in Forest and Nature Management from Hogeschool Van Hall Larenstein, specializing in international timber trade, I bring a unique perspective to our mission of carbon sequestration in the…
Uncategorized · Founders · Biobased construction · Timber · Carbon accounting · Construction Stored Carbon
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
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
This weekend at COP28, European Climate Commissioner Mr. Wopke Hoekstra accepted our letter on how carbon sequestration with nature is the basis for the circular biobased economy (in other words: a future for our kids). It is about entrepreneurial people restoring carbon in soils and materials, and about what our lives will look like when…
Climate Cleanup · Cop28 · Carbon sequestration · Biobased construction · Regenerative agriculture · Policy