What's shipping. What's about to. Who's joining. The journey since 2018, in entries.
An interview with Laura Rooseboom, board member at Climate Cleanup From “boring finance” to meaningful impact “I used to work in traditional asset management,” Laura Rooseboom says with a smile. “Investing in everything and anything. But honestly? I found it quite boring.” What she was missing was purpose, and innovation. Not just new ideas, but…
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…
After 14 intense stages through the Alps, Pepijn Duijvestein reached Monaco, completing the Glorious Glacier Climate Ride. Over 1,600 kilometers and 31,000 meters of climbing later, Pepijn reflected on a journey that combined physical endurance with climate action. “I was rewarded with hours of climbing through breathtaking landscapes and the thrill of long descents,” Pepijn…
When the ground shook beneath him in China in 2008, (then) sound engineer Eddy Wijnker didn’t expect the moment to change his life. As he watched green stones tumble down a hillside during the earthquake, his curiosity took over. “I picked up a few, and my colleague told me they were olivine: a mineral that…
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…
CDR.fyi, the word’s leading CDR market analysis platform, released their 2024 Year in Review. In the review they analyses the major trends in the durable carbon removal market. It is a great resource to find data like market volume and price developments. Here are some key highlights:📈 Durable CDR purchases grew 78% to nearly 8…
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…
Hello everyone! I’m Gijs, and I am excited to share that I’ve recently joined the Oncra team at Climate Cleanup! With an academic background in entrepreneurship and sustainability, I’m passionate about focusing on climate solutions rather than problems. My primary goal is to help streamline and professionalize our processes, making the journey as seamless and…
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…
Climate Cleanup’s take on what COP29 means for carbon removal with nature Optical Illusion An “optical illusion” is how India described the agreement reached last Sunday at COP29 in Baku. The negotiating group of least developed countries (LDC), which includes 45 nations and 1.1 billion people, argued that the agreement undermined three years of discussions…
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…
Into the Great Wide Open (ITGWO) is one of the most sustainable music festival in Europe. For one, they are the first in the world to replace all of their equipment with electrified versions. And even better; they have decided to clean up all their residual emissions with natural carbon removal. With Climate Cleanup they…
Do you want to make a positive impact on our planet and our future? Climate Cleanup is an independent nonprofit organization that realizes scalable nature-based climate solutions that store carbon with nature(tech).
Do you want to make a positive difference to the future of people and our planet? Climate Cleanup is an independent nonprofit organization that realizes scalable nature-based climate solutions that store carbon with nature(tech). Because to reverse the current climate, nitrogen and biodiversity crisis, humanity needs to restore the carbon balance in the atmosphere and…
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…
Thanks to our members we have been able to work on a lot of interventions during the year 2021 / 2022. Click and take a look at the summary.
More and more scientists all over the world are doing research on all kinds of possibilities of CO2 removal by olivine and other minerals. We’ve organized on May 12, 1.30 PM – 17.30 PM CEST the second global conference to create an overview of the research and to bring the network together. An informal bespoke scientific…
Climate Cleanup founder Sven Jense was interviewed in the first podcast of Interface. Janneke Leenaars and Sven talked about removing CO2 with biobased materials. It was a great honour to kick off this podcast serie. We’re looking forward to the next episode. To listen to the Interface podcast (in Dutch) click here.
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
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…
What is happening in the EU? Join the update from Anna Dubowik of the Negative Emissions Platform on the evolving European policy framework on carbon removal technologies and solutions on Wednesday November 11, 8pmCET. The European Commission
Date: March 12, 2020 On the last day before Dutch Parliament was no longer accessible
“Doing nothing is no option.” The Dutch professor Albert van den Berg from the UT in the Netherlands (University Twente) and his BIOS group have bought 43.000 kilograms of olivine-sand to compensate the CO2-footprint of their group in 2018. Being technical minded he’s interested in the more technical solutions for the surplus of CO2 in…
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…