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All·Climate Cleanup·Regenerative agriculture·Event·ONCRA·Biobased construction·Carbon accounting·Double Nature Talk·Land·Founders·Policy
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
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…
Uncategorized·Carbon removal·Carbon accounting·Biochar·Beccs·Daccs
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…
Uncategorized·Cdr·Nature based solutions·Conference·Policy·Investors
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
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…
Uncategorized·Policy·Carbon removal·Land·Netherlands·Carbon accounting
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…
Carbon markets are one way to finance carbon removal with nature, and thus the transition from a fossil to regenerative society. With Oncra, Climate Cleanup tries to bring trust in markets, although we believe most in the role of governments to pay for removal (and thus work closely with the EU CRCF). Currently however, voluntary carbon…
Uncategorized·ONCRA·Voluntary carbon markets·Nature based removals·Carbon credits·Eu crcf
In the Dutch nature reserve De Wieden, the team of Restore Carbon is working together with Natuurmonumenten to use mowed wetland vegetation to store carbon. The plant material, rich in carbon, is collected and injected into the soil, effectively storing CO₂ and restoring the peat. It’s a promising example of how natural processes can be…
Uncategorized·Peatland restoration·Wetlands·Carbon sequestration·ONCRA·Nature based solutions
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
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
Sacha Brons on LinkedIn: “Waaa ik won gisteravond bij de Klimaattop Gebouwde Omgeving de Young Professional Award 2024! Ik sta op #10 van de Duurzame 50 in de Nederlandse bouwsector en ben daarmee de hoogst geplaatste jongere onder de 30. Gefeliciteerd aan #1 Andy van den Dobbelsteen en alle andere genomineerden. Wat een eer om…
Uncategorized·Biobased construction·Carbon accounting·Built environment·Founders·Carbon storage
Open position for Volunteer Fundraiser at Resilient Ecosystems Institute A.C. Location: Remote Compensation: Volunteer (initially). About Us Resilient Ecosystems Institute A.C., based in the Yucatán Peninsula of Mexico, is a non-profit organization committed to revitalizing tropical ecosystems, addressing climate change, and safeguarding biodiversity. Our mission is to develop impactful solutions that empower communities, restore ecological…
Uncategorized·Ecosystem restoration·Biodiversity·Fundraising·Land·Tropical forests
With Tolhuistuin (who just secured half of its much needed funding) we realised two Jeux de Boules courts that actually sequester CO2 with olivine. As the chemical process is sped up when the olivine is moved around, you can actually (to a small extent) speed up the process! We warmly invite you to visit our offices at Tolhuistuin,…
Uncategorized·Olivine·Enhanced weathering·Community·Rock weathering·Amsterdam
Hello everyone! I’m Jelle de Bijl, and I’m thrilled to join the Construction Stored Carbon team at Climate Cleanup Foundation. As a recent graduate with a degree in Forest and Nature Management from Hogeschool Van Hall Larenstein, specializing in international timber trade, I bring a unique perspective to our mission of carbon sequestration in the…
Uncategorized·Founders·Biobased construction·Timber·Carbon accounting·Construction Stored Carbon
Are you looking for a test site for your land-based removal project? Ruurd Priester, board member and co-founder of our Foundation, is inviting land-based removers to test innovations on his 4 hectare site in Scheerwolde, the Netherlands. The site has a rich history of peat production, and later (still!) reed production for thatched roofs and other…
Uncategorized·Land based removal·Biochar·Biomass·Peatland·Founders
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…
Uncategorized·Biobased construction·Carbon certificates·ONCRA·Regenerative agriculture·Policy
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…
Uncategorized·Carbon removal·CRCF·Carbon farming·Policy·Carbon accounting
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…
Uncategorized·Regenerative agriculture·Food forest·Crowdfunding·Land acquisition
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…
Uncategorized·Olivine·Biobased construction·ONCRA·Regenerative agriculture·Sargassum
Ballast Nedam Development and Climate Cleanup Foundation jointly open the internationalmarket for CO2 storage in construction and real estate projects. Ballast Nedam Development is taking the step as the first construction and development company to market CO2 storage in its housing projects, a historic moment for the real estate and construction sector. The company is…
Climate Cleanup·Event·Materials·News·ONCRA·Uncategorized·Biobased construction·Carbon accounting·Construction·Carbon certificates·Real estate
Based on work by Griscom, WWF and others Climate Cleanup investigated how much carbon can be restored in NatureTech approaches in The Netherlands. Find the full factsheet here.
Uncategorized·Naturetech·Land·Carbon sequestration·Netherlands·Nature based solutions
The island Utopia in Almere is slowly changing into an agroforestry experience, opening next year April on the occasion of the Floriade 2022. Curator Xavier San Giorgi shows how he doubles nature and grows food by regenerating 1,4 hectare of land in the centre of this Dutch city of 200.000 inhabitants. The Floriade is the Dutch…
Club·Double Nature Talk·Event·Uncategorized·Agroforestry·Regenerative agriculture·Land·Community building·Urban greening
Carbon accounting in the new nature economy Can we create a business case for nature, without exploiting nature? Better yet, can we create a business case that contributes to carbon removal and the regeneration of our land and oceans? In our brand new article we presents how it can be done.
Climate Cleanup·Uncategorized·Carbon accounting·Nature based solutions·Regenerative agriculture·Ocean·Land