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From the Ocean Floor to the Carbon Sink: How Pablo Besquin Is Working with Nature to Protect Our Coasts

Somewhere off the coast of Mexico, a vessel moves slowly through open water. It’s not fishing. It’s not surveying. It’s hunting seaweed. Why? To take carbon out of the atmosphere, while buying fragile coastlines a little more time. That vessel is the latest chapter in a story that started 25 years ago, underwater. A career…

Entrepreneurs · ONCRA · Seaweed · Ocean · Coastal resilience · Carbon sequestration · Founders

Lars runs for the International Day of the North Sea

On May 15th, Carbon Farmers‘ Lars Hillewaere is committing to a crazy project: he will run 100 km along the entire shoreline of Belgium, his home country. With this act on the International Day of the North Sea, he wants to raise awareness for our oceans and their precious biodiversity. That’s why he’s also raising…

Club · Entrepreneurs · Ocean · Marine biodiversity · Ecosystem restoration · Fundraising · North sea

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

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

“Azolla” Bram working on the Sargassum Cleanup

One of our pioneer members is Bram Geers (33), also known as Azolla Bram. Raised in and around greenhouses with all kinds of cactusses (!) in the Westland in the Netherlands, Bram decided to study

Climate Cleanup · Club · Double Nature Talk · Event · Seaweed · Sargassum · Ocean · Carbon sequestration · Founders

Our story about Sargassum Cleanup

How to turn a huge problem into a climate solution? On January 13 2021 we presented an update on our Sargassum Cleanup project during our Double Nature Talk at 8 pm CET. Around 40 people attended. In the last decade Sargassum Seaweed has become a plague in the Atlantic Ocean, the Caribbean and Gulf of…

Climate Cleanup · Double Nature Talk · Event · Sargassum · Seaweed · Ocean · Carbon removal · Ecosystem restoration

The business case for nature

Carbon accounting in the new nature economy Can we create a business case for nature, without exploiting nature? Better yet, can we create a business case that contributes to carbon removal and the regeneration of our land and oceans? In our brand new article we presents how it can be done.

Climate Cleanup · Uncategorized · Carbon accounting · Nature based solutions · Regenerative agriculture · Ocean · Land

Seaweed life’s building block

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

Climate Cleanup Sargassum Team on Saint Martin

Two members of our Sargassum Cleanup Expedition Team, Peter Lindeman and Fons Janssen, have safely arrived on Saint Martin on Augustus 31 2020. For two weeks they’re observing the Sargassum seaweed

Climate Cleanup · Seaweed · Sargassum · Ocean · Field research · Stakeholder engagement

Sargassum Cleanup – from plague to climate solution

Finally, the time was right to tell the world about our Sargassum Cleanup project. Seaweed is potentially a super scalable climate solution with incredible benefits.

Climate Cleanup · Seaweed · Sargassum · Ocean · Carbon sink · Feasibility study

Seaweed Company Climate Entrepreneur

Beautiful portrait of seaweed sea-eo and co-founder Joost Wouters as climate entrepreneur.

Climate Cleanup · Seaweed · Founders · Ocean · Entrepreneurship

Seaweed Scaling Lab opened in Port of Amsterdam

Our seaweed lab is growing and growing. We started growing Ulva Lactuca (sea lettuce) with one basin from Hortimare (thanks!) and we completed our lab with 6 basins this week. Together with the port of Amsterdam, we’re aiming to scale up the growth of seaweed in Dutch waters and abroad. The Climate Cleanup Capacity of…

Climate Cleanup · Seaweed · Ocean · Carbon removal · Scaling · Port of amsterdam