Interventions
The work we're running now, and the foundations that shaped how we think.
Currently running
Oncra
Open Natural Carbon Removal Accounting: the missing link between the people who remove carbon with nature and the finance that should reward them. Certifies every ton Climate Cleanup backs.
Visit ↗Construction Stored Carbon
The world's first open certification for carbon stored in buildings: bio-based materials turning the built environment into a carbon sink.
Learn more →Ocean Stored Carbon
A certification protocol and financial metric for nature-based ocean removal: mangroves, seagrass and seaweed.
Learn more →Golden Tides
Ocean carbon removal on the Yucatán coast of Mexico: intercepting Sargassum before it beaches, turning a coastal blight into measurable blue carbon.
Visit ↗ABC Interreg: Agro Building Carbon
A four-year Interreg Europe project connecting regenerative agriculture with bio-based construction across nine European regions.
Visit ↗Koolstofopbrengst
Carbon Yield, a free tool for Dutch farmers and landowners to see what nature-inclusive farming could store, and how it can be financed.
Visit ↗Nationale Top
The annual summit on natural carbon sequestration: policymakers, entrepreneurs, scientists and financiers around a life-based economy.
Learn more →Levenswerkplaats
An open maker-space and lab at Tolhuistuin, Amsterdam-Noord, a permanent hackathon for bringing life back.
Learn more →Klimaatlegaat
Climate Legacy. Leave the living world better than you found it by remembering nature and climate in your will.
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Earlier interventions
Drawdown
The first comprehensive plan to reverse global warming. We published the Dutch edition and co-founded Drawdown Europe.
Learn more →Regeneration
Putting life central to everything we do. We brought Paul Hawken's Regeneration to the Netherlands with a broad coalition of partners.
Learn more →2040
Damon Gameau's documentary picturing a regenerative world in 2040: Drawdown and Doughnut Economics brought to the screen.
Learn more →Donometer
A decision-making tool, built with the Digital Society School at the Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences, that connects Kate Raworth's Doughnut Economics to real-world value chains.
Learn more →4th Global Enhanced Weathering Conference
May 4th, 2022, live from Amsterdam and online: scientists and entrepreneurs on enhanced weathering, one of the oldest scalable natural climate solutions.
Learn more →Sargassum Cleanup Feasibility Study
In 2021, with WWF Netherlands, MIIP and Stinapa, we went to the Caribbean and collected and dried Sargassum seaweed by hand, to learn whether it can remove carbon at scale. This is what we found.
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