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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
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…
Climate Cleanup · Materials · Rock Stored Carbon · ONCRA · Olivine · Enhanced weathering · Carbon removal · Rock weathering
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
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
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
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
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
Embodied beauty is what Interface calls its carpet tiles which store more CO2 than ever before. This global flooring company creates interior spaces with a positive impact on people and planet. How does Interface double nature and when is the company going to be climate positive? The recording of our online Double Nature Talk by…
Climate Cleanup · Club · Double Nature Talk · Event · Materials · Biobased construction · Carbon storage · Flooring · Climate positive · Embodied carbon
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
Climate Cleanup founder Sven Jense was interviewed in the first podcast of Interface. Janneke Leenaars and Sven talked about removing CO2 with biobased materials. It was a great honour to kick off this podcast serie. We’re looking forward to the next episode. To listen to the Interface podcast (in Dutch) click here.
Climate Cleanup · Imagination · Materials · Biobased construction · Carbon removal · Founders · Podcast · Land
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
The benefits of biobased constructions are enormous. For people. For nature. For the climate. People have evolved in nature, in the forests and in the fields. Wooden architecture brings nature back into our artificial built environment. We start to feel better: invigorated, healthier and with an increased sense of well-being. As we know, trees
Climate Cleanup · Double Nature Talk · Event · Materials · Biobased construction · Timber · Biosequestration · Biophilic design · Land
It seems like seaweed has almost infinite possibilities. It sequesters CO2 faster than plants and trees. A real carbon sucker and regenerator of the oceans. All kinds of value chains become more and more feasible, like BlueBlocks.
Climate Cleanup · Double Nature Talk · Event · Materials · Seaweed · Ocean · Carbon sequestration · Biobased construction · Food systems
Dutch people know hemp quite well, but not as much as a nature-based solution to reverse climate change. During our Double Nature Talk on October 7 Matej Prokop, the founder of the NGO Hemp the Climate will share his vision
Climate Cleanup · Double Nature Talk · Materials · Soil · Hemp · Regenerative agriculture · Biobased construction · Nature based solutions · Founders
It’s no joke. Today we launch, in public beta, CO2 Open. An open invitation to entrepreneurs (companies, organisations) and initiatives that remove CO2 with nature-inspired methods to come together. Our first collective action is to secure funding from the Dutch government (SDE++, klimaat enveloppe). Next we will open up towards a global scale, as the…
Climate Cleanup · Materials · Sand / Minerals · Soil · Trees · Co2 open · Funding · Olivine · Seaweed · Reforestation
Together with Port of Amsterdam CEO Koen Overtoom (left), today we opened the Climate Cleanup Expo. Our ‘museum of the future’ in Prodock, the innovation hub of the port of Amsterdam, shows all kinds of natural Climate Cleanup methods like olivine, seaweed and trees-growing methods.
Climate Cleanup · Drawdown · Materials · Sand / Minerals · Soil · Trees · Seaweed · Olivine · Reforestation · Enhanced weathering · Expo