The 1500 Club

Invitation

Climate Cleanup Foundation reverses global warming by removing carbon dioxide with natural methods. The 1500 Club enables the Foundation to clean up 1500 gigatons of CO₂.

The 1500 Club is by and for investors, entrepreneurs, parents, children, and decision makers. By joining us you help to develop natural climate solutions, and you immediately become climate positive because we remove your carbon footprint.

Natural carbon removal can be done in three simple ways: by planting trees, growing seaweed, and using olivine. We are entrepreneurial pioneers who actually remove CO₂ with nature through these methods. Together we build the new sector of natural carbon removal. And you can help.

Join the club! (1420 of 1500 membership positions left)

Strategy

We have exponential impact because we develop business and enable the pioneers who work on natural carbon removal methods. We develop earthshots projects like seaweed sinking, and Green Beaches (see below). Furthermore we enable the sector by developing carbon accounting, policy tweaks, publicity, and investments in actual CO₂ removal. We arrange for what is needed to make the natural carbon removal sector grow as fast as possible.

Impact

We need to clean up 1500 gigatons of CO₂ to stop and reverse climate change. That is a lot, so we choose methods that are physically and economically scalable and strengthen nature. We work through interventions that support the sector’s growth in several connected ways.

In our first year of existence we accomplished:

• • Removal of 40 tons CO₂ with olivine
  • 15+ Climate Cleanup entrepreneurs united
  • Cleanup Solutions Lab with Port of Amsterdam
  • Develop seaweed-to-biochar prototype with Utrecht University
  • +1 Million people informed through media outreach
  • Established foundation with board and team
  • Organised two deep strategy weekends
  • Publishing of Drawdown in Dutch
  • Establishement Drawdown Europe
  • Donometer tool prototype to develop business within dougnut economy frame
  • Map leading narratives on climate solutions
  • And more

Agenda

In working towards the removal of 1500 gigatons CO₂, we will next develop one systemic intervention (accounting process for carbon removal) and two earthot projects (on seaweed and olivine).

Doughnut Accounting for Carbon Removal. Climate Cleanup entrepeneurs all deal with the problem of how to measure and account for the tons of CO₂ they remove – in a nature-inclusive way (doughnut-proof). Developing a doughnut-accounting method and standard that is simple, transparant and widely adopted will help thousands of entrepreneurs to close their business cases, because funders of all kinds then can quantify the positive climate impact of their donations and investments.

The Grand Atlantic Sargassum Cleanup. Removing CO₂ and restoring nature through helping the Sargassum Bloom resume its natural carbon cycle. Goal: removing carbon and learning how to harvest and sink seaweed into the ocean, while strengthening and restoring sea life.

Green Beaches of the World. Using olivine sand to protect coastlines will at the same time de-acidify the oceans and clean up many tons of CO₂. Partners: GreenSand, Project Vesta. Potential partners: RWS (Dutch government), Deltares, Nioz.

Quantified goals

Mt = megaton or a million tons. Gt = gigaton or 1000 megatons. A gigaton in weight can be pictured as an icecube measuring one by one by one km. Global yearly human CO₂ emissions are about 40Gt. Removing 1500Gt while stopping emissions in 2050 will restore the natural carbon balance (see our Plan).

Benefits for members

• Yearly club meeting 
• Updates on our progress
• Establish Climate Cleanup Foundation
• Priority position when Cleanup Companies raise capital
• Remove your emissions and invest in natural carbon removal

Climate Cleanup Foundation is a Public Benefit Organisation (ANBI) so your membership fee is tax deductible if you support for five years or more. Yearly or five-yearly payment is possible. Please contact us for assistance and details.

As a bonus, you receive the Climate Cleanup Pin that gains you access to all our events. As we like to meet you, the pin will be handed out when you first visit an event.

The membership fee starts at €30 per month. That’s less than a cup of coffee a day.

Join now!

Welcome,

Harm Edens, Maurits Groen, Sven Jense, Ruud Koornstra, Eelco Leemans, Peter Lindeman, Pedram Muurlink, Ruurd Priester, Marcel Schuttelaar, Roy Straver, Linda Vosjan, Joost Wouters, Eddy Wijnker

P.S. Gift action! When you give away a membership to a friend, you both receive a copy of Drawdown – The Most Comprehensive Plan to Reverse Global Warming (in Dutch or English).

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