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The Tree That Thinks in Generations

Robert Pol is 62 years old, married, and the father of thirty-year-old twins. He works as a senior innovator at Van Aalsburg, a family business now in its third generation. “A wonderful title,” he calls it himself. His work? Developing new products based on willow. “When I was six years old, I already wanted to…

Entrepreneurs · Materials · Trees · Willow · Carbon storage · ONCRA · Nature based solutions · Biobased construction

Webinar: Certificering van carbon credits in de Regeling Stimulering Vezelteelt

Dinsdag 16 december 16:00-17:00 Goed nieuws! De Regeling Stimulering Vezelteelt (RSV) gaat eind november opnieuw open. De RSV van het Ministerie van LVVN wordt uitgevoerd door het Nationaal Groenfonds en biedt financiële steun aan boeren en verwerkers die vezelgewassen telen of verwerken tot biobased bouwmaterialen. Deze gewassen – zoals hennep, vlas, wilg en miscanthus –…

Agroforestry · Event · Trees · ONCRA · Carbon accounting · Biobased construction · Fiber crops · Carbon credits

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

Input for European Commission carbon removal certification framework

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….

Sand / Minerals · Seaweed · Soil · Trees · ONCRA · Carbon removal certification · Policy · Carbon accounting · European commission

Festive masterclass on climate solutions

Thanks everyone for joining our festive online masterclass on May 26 on scalable climate solutions like seaweed, soil, regenerative (agro)forestry, circulair biobased materials, ONCRA and enhanced weathering. Take a look at the recording on our YouTubeChannel. Happy we had Paul Hawken (Drawdown / Regeneration), Damon Gameau (filmmaker 2040 Join the Regeneration), Matthea de Jong

Climate Cleanup · Club · Drawdown · Event · Sand / Minerals · Soil · Trees · Seaweed · Enhanced weathering · Regenerative agriculture · ONCRA · Biobased construction

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

reNature receives investment from Meraki Impact

It has been one-and-half-year since the launch of reNature, the growing organization received a financial boost from Meraki Impact.

Climate Cleanup · Trees · Regenerative agriculture · Agroforestry · Investment · 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