What does it take to transform the way we build, grow food, and relate to the planet? In this conversation, Jelle de Bijl (Certification Manager at Construction Stored Carbon) and Gijs Tolmeijer (Business Developer for both Climate Cleanup and Oncra), both working at Climate Cleanup, sit down to talk about their work, what drives them,…
Climate Cleanup · Club · Intervention Team · Regenerative agriculture · Biobased construction · Food forest · ONCRA · Founders
What if the problem is not that we don’t know enough, but that we’ve forgotten how to truly see? For Marie-Claire Greve, photographer and long-time ambassador for Climate Cleanup, the starting point is not urgency, but attention. Not crisis, but connection. And, more fundamentally, a renewed sense of value. “The moment people begin to feel…
Climate Cleanup · Club · Entrepreneurs · Regenerative agriculture · Land · Soil health · Nature connection · Founders
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….
We nodigen je van harte uit om op 19 november om 19.30 uur naar Wij kopen Nederland vrij! te komen tijdens het Warming Up Festival. Een programma dat we met veel plezier organiseren samen met partners zoals Lenteland, Grond van Bestaan, De Jonge Voedselbosboeren, en Climate Imaginaries at Sea Collective. Kan collectief grondbezit een systemische…
We warmly invite you to join us for Wij kopen Nederland vrij! on November 19 at the Warming Up Festival. A program we wholeheartedly organize together with our great partners like Lenteland, Grond van Bestaan, De Jonge Voedselbosboeren, and Climate Imaginaries at Sea Collective. Can collective landownership be a systemic climate solution? Together with pioneers…
Agroforestry · Climate Cleanup · Event · Regenerative agriculture · Land · Collective ownership · Biodiversity · Food systems
At their farm Horaholm, in the northern Dutch village of Hornhuizen, Erwin Westers and his father have spent over 20 years exploring how to work with nature instead of against it. Their efforts show how farming can heal both the land and the climate. By restoring soil life, inviting biodiversity back, and capturing 5,273 tons…
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…
How can we fund entrepreneurs who remove carbon through nature? That question led to the creation of ONCRA, our initiative to help both large- and small-scale Removers quantify and monetise the carbon they store. Many frontrunners identified this as a key need, and now it’s paying off: over 80 projects have been certified, real project…
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
“There’s no feeling like seeing stuff green and alive and fruit starting to form.” – Karim Kouddous Setting up a syntropic farm is like software development, Kareem ascertains while showing us the irrigation system. You have complex systems that interact, parts of the system are developed in sprints, you have to test and see how…
Stichting Re/Generatie is organizing a Regeneration Week from April 26 to May 3 (during the May holiday) in Catalunya, Spain, and there are still a few spots left! You wake up to a symphony of birdsong and step outside to find yourself surrounded by rolling hills. Everywhere you look, the vibrant green of young medicinal herbs and plants catches…
Event · Regenerative agriculture · Land · Community · Education
What is a harvest share? For one season, you can come and harvest fruit, vegetables, herbs, oyster mushrooms and flowers with us for a fixed amount per year. By buying a harvest share or several harvest shares, you will receive an e-mail every week with what can be harvested per share. A harvest share is…
Uncategorized · Regenerative agriculture · Food production · Community supported agriculture · Land · Biodiversity
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
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…
Farmer Jeroen van Steen gives his farmland back to the earth. For a healthier society and a more equal society. “The sky and sun belong to everyone. Why is the earth divided into compartments? That’s actually quite weird,” says former dairy farmer Jeroen van Steen. “I own land because I have been lucky in my…
Uncategorized · Commons · Land stewardship · Regenerative agriculture · Community land · Flevoland
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…
Stichting Onze Groenteboer, founded by Fabio and Anna, is launching their second crowdfunding campaign to purchase land for a new regenerative agriculture project. Their goal is to raise between €50,000 and €100,000 to buy land near a city like Utrecht, Den Haag, Rotterdam, or Nijmegen for developing either a food forest or another regenerative food…
Gerben van Bennekom is working alongside his father, with the aim of improving the soil of their family farm in Renswoude, on the border of Utrecht and Gelderland. Gerben has been experimenting with non-inversion tillage, undersowing maize, bokashi. And has a second business branch of compost, worms and worm mulch. Gerben want “to get the…
Uncategorized · ONCRA · Regenerative agriculture · Soil health · Compost · Land
Our friend Pol Knops, co-founder of Paebbl, shares insights about his innovative company’s journey. Paebbl, founded three years ago, developed a groundbreaking process that combines CO2 with olivine to create stone powders for cement and concrete production. This technology could potentially store millions of tons of CO2 in cement, significantly reducing global emissions. Pol, who has worked…
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 Liesbeth van Bemmel, the founder and farmer of Voedselbos Benthuizen. Voedselbos Benthuizen is a food forest that allows members to “come to harvest, plant trees,…
Agroforestry · Climate Cleanup · Entrepreneurs · Food forest · Regenerative agriculture · Land · Founders · Community
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…
Scave.World: Double Nature Talk, September 12 2023Bart van Beuzekom has a regenerative farm in Portugal and also several hectares in the Netherlands. For example, he produces delicious pasta with old plant varieties. Bart has not been a farmer since childhood; he started five years ago. Because he wanted to take action against the destruction of…
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…
