Double Nature Summit
Planning for regeneration and natural
carbon restoration at scale
May 22-25, 2023
4 days of collective inspiration and action to double nature
The Double Nature Summit is a 4-day participatory platform bringing together a diverse range of stakeholders, including regenerative pioneers, investors, scientists, businesses, policymakers, non-governmental organizations, indigenous people, and local communities. Our common goal is to double nature – applying regenerative practices to re-store carbon dioxide in the land and oceans. We think this can be done best with entrepreneurial drive and distributed scaling and we work towards a regenerative economy with which we can live in fairly distributed prosperity within planetary boundaries.
Learn about current ecosystem challenges, get inspired by pioneers and innovations, exchange knowledge and expertise, grow collaborations, and contribute to the design of new initiatives that help nature grow twice as big and strong. Join the community of regenerators!
Who you will meet
Program
09:00 Celebrating the regeneration movement in the Netherlands
A warm welcome in the day, with moments to celebrate all together.
CELEBRATING LIFE
Climate Cleanup is……. We are three years 1500 Club Double Nature Ambassadors.
What has happened and what is ahead?
Sven Jense (Climate Cleanup)
ECOSYSTEM REGENERATION – BAMBOO ON THE RISE
The extraordinary and fast renewable plant bamboo is mainly common in Asian countries. But also in other continents and countries, the plant is on the rise. Like Europe and the Netherlands.
@ Joost Borneman (BambooLogic)
@ Sophie Wisbrun-Overakker (Doing Business, Doing Good)
@ Lars Hillewaere (Carbon Farmers)
@ Sven Jense (Oncra)
ECOSYSTEM REGENERATION – 4 DOMAINS 1 MISSION
Sector insights from the 4 domain-specific days: the state of regeneration in the Ocean, Rock Weathering, and Bio-based Construction.
@ Eelco Leemans (Oceans)
@ Pol Knops (Rock Weathering)
@ Sacha Brons (Bio-Based Construction)
@ Bart van Beuzekom (Land)
10:30 Workshops
Learn practical skills from in-depth workshops to achieve your regenerative goals. You can choose to join one of the following workshops:
BLENDING FINANCE: PHILANTHROPY AND EARLY INVESTING
Apply the principles of regeneration to the practice of finance. How can our financial system be redesigned inspired by the science of living systems?
@ Frank van Beuningen (PYM)
@ Michiel Toneman
@ Jarno van den Heuvel (Lucy)
REGENERATIVE LEADERSHIP
WITH PURPOSE
How can founders and their teams unleash their regenerative potential & accelerate their sustainable transformations by activating their purpose and creating nature positive impact?
@ Sophie Wisbrun-Overakker (Doing Business, Doing Good)
@ Victor Broers (The Navona Network)
ENERGY TO DOUBLE NATURE
Energy is needed for everything. How is energy integrated within the development of nature-based solutions?
@ Ruud Koornstra (National Energycommissioner, Chairperson Climate Cleanup, Stichting SCO)
DECOLONIZING OUR WORK IN REGENERATION
In this session, we invite you to emotionally connect to the experiences of Indigenous Peoples, who are defending life on earth with their own lives. We also go back to our own roots and connect with the wisdom of our ancestors while imagining what the future will look like if we truly transform our societies.
@ Martine Doppen (Reclame Fossielvrij)
@ Raki Ap (Ministerie van Binnenlandse Zaken)
STORYTELLING FOR REGENERATION
Stories change reality. Stories form a culture. Change the Story uses storytelling to create a regenerative culture in the Netherlands, by presenting a regenerative future.
How can storytelling help to Double Nature? How do we tell that story? To whom? At what places? –Session in Dutch
@ Jeppe van Pruissen (Change the Story)
CREATING SELF GOVERNING COMMUNITIES
Many great initiatives have come to fruition because of one driving force, a visionary, entrepreneur… you name it. Yet when they step down the project windels down. By introducing the case study of Utopia Eiland we will discuss and investigate what is needed to create a self governing community which can move forward even when the instigator steps down.
@ Xavier San Giorgi (Stichting Weerwoud)
REGENERATIVE FINANCE AND THE GOVERNANCE LADDER
In this Workshop we will share with you in depth our lessons learned on new blended and regenerative finance en governance in the last 10 years in regions in the world.
What are the principles for the transition towards new blended and regenerative finance and governance?
@ Caroline van Leenders (RVO)
@ Dennis Kerkhoven (YesAndMore)
12:00 Morning Closing
12:30 Lunch
14:00 Keynote – Humanity as Keystone species
@ Lyla June Johnston (online)
15:00 Collaborate on Regenerative Actions – Actshops
How can we see, think and act in a way that respects and builds on the potential of the places we live in, while benefiting social and ecological systems? Through a series of Actshops, participants have the opportunity to collaborate on specific case studies provided by enterprises, aided by principles of regenerative community design. You can choose to work with one case study.
@Josine Bakkes (Architects of Communities)
CO-CREATING THE COMMONS
Voedselpark Amsterdam is an alternative to the outdated plans for a distribution center on the last fertile soil of Amsterdam. They aim to create an ecological living lab and regenerative food hub on 60 hectares, on the edge of Amsterdam.
Challenge: How might we create a commons mindset in politics and municipal governments?
@ Natacha Hulst (Voedselpark Amsterdam)
@Bonnie Chopard
(Inlandschap)
DOUBLE NATURE AND MANGROVES
Bonaire hosts the largest mangrove forest within all of the Dutch Caribbean. These forests provide immense biological, economical and cultural value to the island.
Challenge: How might we restore mangrove forests and the communities around them to preserve one of the most important and threatened ecosystems on the planet?
@ Eelco Leemans (Climate Cleanup) @ Sabine Engel (Stinapa)
BIO-BASED BUILDINGS STORE CARBON, SOCIAL AND DISTRIBUTED
Easy Housing co-creates circular-, regenerative and disaster-resilient homes in collaboration with communities in the Global South.
Challenge: How might we scale up our housing technology service through inclusive home financing and carbon credits?
@Niels van den Berge (Easy Housing)
WEAVING THE TRIBES OF EUROPE AND TURTLE ISLAND
Lyla’s doctoral research focused on exploring the ways in which pre-colonial Indigenous Nations shaped large regions of Turtle Island to produce abundant food systems for humans and non-humans.
Challenge: How might we weave together indigenous nations across turtle island and Europe?
@ Lyla June Johnston (Lyla June)
LIFETIME CARBON CLEANUP
All of us have benefitted from the use of fossil fuels. However, we now know this has enormous consequences for our planet.
There are changemakers they however are not being financed. How can we pay them for the service of cleaning up the climate and double nature?
Challenge: How can we make cleaning up lifetime emissions using nature-based carbon removal as normal as health care?
@ Bart van Beuzekom (Scave.World)
THE FUTURE MACHINE
The Future Machine is an exhibition showcasing the miracles of people, nature, and technology. An immersive meeting place for innovators, entrepreneurs, and creators. Right here at Tolhuistuin.
Challenge: How might we find business partners who want to showcase their work and co-create the Future Machine?
@Matthea de Jong (Tolhuistuin)
BE AN OCEAN FARMER
Current developments within seaweed farming, are opening up a whole new industry of low trophic oceanic agriculture. An immense potential for the good of the planet.
Challenge: How might we roll-out the oceanic agriculture industry, so that it maximizes positive impact, while also distributing its profit to as many people as possible?
@Alexander Ebbing (Hortimare)
RESTORE LANDSCAPES VIA LOING TERM PROCESS FUNDING
Commonland works all over the globe with a diverse range of partners to protect and restore landscapes and to build sustainable business cases which generate an income for local communities.
To be successful, landscape restoration takes 20 years. This means that Commonland focuses on funders who are willing to commit themselves for a longer period to fund local organizations, offices, and other overhead costs vs funders who are only interested in short-term projects and results.
Challenge: How can we act together to shift funder’s preference from short term project to long term process funding?
@Mariken van den Boogaard (Commonland)
@Eva Cappon (Commonland)
17:00 Launching “Pathways to Double Nature Plan”
Double Nature Actions, the DNA of our plan, are place-based, regenerative and systemic actions that contribute to doubling nature. Double Nature is a radically positive plan to reverse climate change. It is not about doing less, but about doing more. It brings health, restores carbon and regenerates life.
@Tijn Tjoelker, Climate Cleanup
@Hanny van Hout, Climate Cleanup
18:00 Drinks
Celebration of three years 1500 Club of Double Nature Ambassadors
Who made Double Nature Day
Some of the issues we’ll be looking into
Summit Tickets
Please note, this is a not for profit event. Prices just cover costs for catering, locations and organising. Climate Cleanup Foundation is grateful to the members and partners who enable and co-create this conference.
We don’t want the ticket price to hinder anyone. This is why the (strongly) reduced price applies to pioneers and students in the emerging regenerative economy. We can provide scholarships, so if you can’t afford the ticket but know you’d be valuable on the field, please contact us for a discount using the form below.
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