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EU CRCF Update: Report from European Farming Summit

Bart van Beuzekom was at the European Carbon Farming Summit in Dublin, Ireland, for Scature and to represent Climate Cleanup. He reports that “the Summit featured a significant presence of scientists, which was encouraging to see. However, a notable observation was the substantial allocation of research funding towards validating already established conclusions from decades past using cutting-edge…

Uncategorized · Regenerative agriculture · Reforestation · Carbon accounting · Eu policy · CRCF

BambooLogic Field Update

Working to store carbon with nature means constant adaptation. Last year, BambooLogic had a lot of rain in the Alcoutim region and this has benefited growth last year. The plants are producing shoots up to one and a half metres from the plant and more than two metres tall. Slowly but surely, a bamboo forest…

Uncategorized · Bamboo · Reforestation · Carbon sequestration · Land · Portugal

Planet Healers at the Resilient Ecosystem Institute

“As large as my fist,” Lovael (8) describes the Tarantula. And his brother Elouan (5) is keeping an eye on it. They found it under a boxing ball, the springy kind mounted on a stand. It is where the spider chose to feel at home here in the Northern part of the Yucatán. Life feels…

Agroforestry · Entrepreneurs · Ecosystem restoration · Reforestation · Land · Carbon finance · Biodiversity

Remover Spotlight

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…

Agroforestry · Climate Cleanup · Entrepreneurs · Food forest · ONCRA · Carbon accounting · Land · Reforestation

How Paulownia trees double nature and sequester CO2

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

How rocks and trees collaborate in sequestering gigatons of CO2

Did you know that if we co-deploy reforestation, enhanced weathering of rocks and biochar, we might sequester up to 10 times more carbon per hectare? Wednesday 2nd of March, Future Forest Company founder Jim Mann joined us online to tell about all the ins and outs of Trees and Rocks (and even biochar and therefor mycelium). The…

Climate Cleanup · Double Nature Talk · Event · Enhanced weathering · Reforestation · Biochar · Mycelium · Co deployment

Logic to grow bamboo

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

How Land Life Company doubles nature

Trees are great “tools” to remove carbon from the atmosphere, revitalize nature and tackle climate change. This is why it’s Land Life Company‘s mission to restore the 2 billion hectares of degraded land in the world. Land Life was founded in 2013 on the idea that a business approach and technology can drive

Climate Cleanup · Double Nature Talk · Soil · Trees · Reforestation · Land restoration · Nature based solutions · Carbon removal · Community engagement

How Africa Wood Grow doubles nature

Most people are starting their decade of ecosystem restoration right now. The Dutch foundation Africa Wood Grow has already finalized a decade of regeneration in Kenia. During our online Double Nature Talk of January 20 founders Roeland Lelieveld and Daniel Muvali presented the Africa Wood Grow regenerative farms near the Tiva river. How does Africa…

Climate Cleanup · Double Nature Talk · Event · Trees · Regenerative agriculture · Reforestation · Biodiversity · Land · Founders

Land Life Company project best practice at Dubai Expo 2020

As announces at the UN General Assembly SDG Summit in New York, a partnership project between Land Life Company and the UNHCR was selected for the Global Best Practice Programma of the Dubai Expo 2020.

Climate Cleanup · Trees · Reforestation · Land · Unhcr · Partnerships · Restoration

CO2 Open is open

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

Climate Cleanup Expo launched

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