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
The European Commission has opened public consultation on the draft rules for certifying carbon farming across the EU: the Carbon Removals and Carbon Farming Regulation (CRCF). This is your chance to shape how farmers and foresters get certified and paid for storing carbon. Feedback deadline: 19 February 2026 on the EU’s “Have Your Say” portal….
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
Tijdens de eerste koolstofvastleggingstafels brachten we ondernemers, marktpartijen, beleidsmakers, investeerders en experts samen om te verkennen hoe we koolstofvastlegging met natuurgebaseerde oplossingen kunnen opschalen op Nederlandse bodem. De energie was hoog en de bereidheid om samen door te pakken is groot. Hieronder delen we de belangrijkste uitkomsten van de werksessies en de vervolgstappen. Uitkomsten werksessies…
At the end of June, the UN climate negotiations (SB62) took place in Bonn, Germany, bringing together delegates from across the globe to prepare for COP30 in Belém, Brazil (November 2025). Wietse Slob, trainer at the Clingendael Institute in The Hague and active with Climate Cleanup (that has an UNFCCC observer status), attended the talks…
Event · Policy · Cop30 · Climate finance · Loss and damage · Climate adaptation · Un negotiations
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…
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
In only 62 days we will convene with leaders in the Nature-based CDR ecosystem in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Innovative entrepreneurs in carbon removal, policy makers from the Provincial to national and European level, as well as investors across CDR buyers, philanthropy, banks and institutional investors will meet and work with you on scaling the regenerative…
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
We are happy that Carbon Dioxide Removal (CDR), the removal and storage of CO₂ from air and oceans, is gaining increasing global attention, and recently also in the Netherlands. The Ministry of Climate and Green Growth of Sophie Hermans recently presented a comprehensive National Roadmap, while Province Gelderland conducted a market surveywith other provinces, carried out by…
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…
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…
Council greenlights EU certification framework for permanent carbon removals, carbon farming and carbon storage in products On 19 November, the Council gave the final green light to a regulation establishing the first EU-level certification framework for permanent carbon removals, carbon farming and carbon storage in products. This voluntary framework will facilitate and encourage high-quality carbon…
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…
In December 2021, the European Commission adopted the Communication “Sustainable Carbon Cycles” which sets out an action plan on how to develop sustainable solutions to increase carbon removals. Climate Cleanup with ecosystem partners ASN Bank, Gideon Building Tribes and others advised the Commission on this carbon removal certification framework. This advise can be found here….
People in power have to change the world lots of people state often. Have you already seen Greta Thunberg’s speech, on July 2, 2021 at the Austrian World Summit? The role of government is often regarded as the most important one. The 49th Double Nature Talk of July 7 we gave the floor to civil servant…
Climate Cleanup · Club · Double Nature Talk · Event · Policy · Carbon sequestration · Greenhouse gas reduction · Regional government · Climate action
When discussing climate change, the words tipping points are usually used to address physical phenomena. An international scientific team, led by Ilona Otto from the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK) shows that social tipping points also cause sudden and irreversible disruption of the status quo. Just like physical tipping points do. “Social tipping points are subdomains…
Climate Cleanup · Club · Double Nature Talk · Event · Social tipping points · Emissions reduction · Policy · Systems change · Community
The Double Nature Talk of psychologist and economist Per Espen Stoknes Wednesday April 7 will be soon published on our YouTubeChannel. Going beyond the usual pro-growth versus anti-growth debate, Stoknes calls for healthy growth. Stoknes shows that we already have the tools to achieve healthy growth, but our success depends on transformations in scaling innovations,…
Together with 50+ Dutch organizations, we’ve written a manifesto for regeneration of the soil in the Netherlands. It would be great if you would also sign this manifest. Take a look on the website of Aardpeer. 21 baby’s and their parents are asking for
Doubling Nature in the Netherlands is doable by combining more issues in the same time: the lack of housing, the lack of successors in farming, the loss of biodiversity, the excesses of nitrogen and CO2, the need to retain water and the need for nature in a very densely populated country. We’re delighted two Dutchmen…
Climate Cleanup · Double Nature Talk · Event · Rewilding · Biodiversity · Land use · Regenerative agriculture · Policy
Doughnut Economics is a groundbreaking new economic story that unleashes a lot of positive energy around the world and spurs people into transformative action. Three questions are central in this Double Nature Talk: how come Doughnut Economics inspires so many people? How does it relate to Climate Cleanup and the idea of Double Nature? And…
Double Nature Talk · Event · Doughnut economics · Systems thinking · Community · Education · Policy
