An interview with Laura Rooseboom, board member at Climate Cleanup From “boring finance” to meaningful impact “I used to work in traditional asset management,” Laura Rooseboom says with a smile. “Investing in everything and anything. But honestly? I found it quite boring.” What she was missing was purpose, and innovation. Not just new ideas, but…
Board member · Climate Cleanup · Club · Carbon removal · Impact investing · Founders · Carbon credits · Scaling
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
What if the problem is not that we don’t know enough, but that we’ve forgotten how to truly see? For Marie-Claire Greve, photographer and long-time ambassador for Climate Cleanup, the starting point is not urgency, but attention. Not crisis, but connection. And, more fundamentally, a renewed sense of value. “The moment people begin to feel…
Climate Cleanup · Club · Entrepreneurs · Regenerative agriculture · Land · Soil health · Nature connection · Founders
(6 months project base or freelance) Profile We are looking for a highly climate-ambitious person to bring structure, clarity and CRCF-aligned professionalism to all core methodology related processes within Oncra. Oncra.org is a nature-based carbon removal certification service and financing platform built to align fully with the EU Carbon Removal Certification Framework (CRCF). It provides…
Climate Cleanup · ONCRA · CRCF · Carbon accounting · Nature based solutions · Jobs
We nodigen je van harte uit om op 19 november om 19.30 uur naar Wij kopen Nederland vrij! te komen tijdens het Warming Up Festival. Een programma dat we met veel plezier organiseren samen met partners zoals Lenteland, Grond van Bestaan, De Jonge Voedselbosboeren, en Climate Imaginaries at Sea Collective. Kan collectief grondbezit een systemische…
We warmly invite you to join us for Wij kopen Nederland vrij! on November 19 at the Warming Up Festival. A program we wholeheartedly organize together with our great partners like Lenteland, Grond van Bestaan, De Jonge Voedselbosboeren, and Climate Imaginaries at Sea Collective. Can collective landownership be a systemic climate solution? Together with pioneers…
Agroforestry · Climate Cleanup · Event · Regenerative agriculture · Land · Collective ownership · Biodiversity · Food systems
After 14 intense stages through the Alps, Pepijn Duijvestein reached Monaco, completing the Glorious Glacier Climate Ride. Over 1,600 kilometers and 31,000 meters of climbing later, Pepijn reflected on a journey that combined physical endurance with climate action. “I was rewarded with hours of climbing through breathtaking landscapes and the thrill of long descents,” Pepijn…
At their farm Horaholm, in the northern Dutch village of Hornhuizen, Erwin Westers and his father have spent over 20 years exploring how to work with nature instead of against it. Their efforts show how farming can heal both the land and the climate. By restoring soil life, inviting biodiversity back, and capturing 5,273 tons…
When the ground shook beneath him in China in 2008, (then) sound engineer Eddy Wijnker didn’t expect the moment to change his life. As he watched green stones tumble down a hillside during the earthquake, his curiosity took over. “I picked up a few, and my colleague told me they were olivine: a mineral that…
🌱 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
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…
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
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
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
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…
Do you want to make a positive impact on our planet and our future? Climate Cleanup is an independent nonprofit organization that realizes scalable nature-based climate solutions that store carbon with nature(tech).
Climate Cleanup · Internship · Team · Founders · Nature based solutions · Carbon removal
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 Liesbeth van Bemmel, the founder and farmer of Voedselbos Benthuizen. Voedselbos Benthuizen is a food forest that allows members to “come to harvest, plant trees,…
Agroforestry · Climate Cleanup · Entrepreneurs · Food forest · Regenerative agriculture · Land · Founders · Community
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…
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…
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…
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…
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
