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….
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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
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…
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We are thrilled that Paul Hawken, author of Drawdown and Regeneration, has a new book out that resonates with our work at many levels: Carbon, the Book of Life. It might help us all to refrain from carbon reductionism and embrace a holistic vision: carbon not as a molecule, but as the carrier of energy,…
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
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…
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…
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…
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…
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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
