Faye Cornish, landscape photograph
Climate Cleanup

Interventions

The work we're running now, and the foundations that shaped how we think.

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CertificationOncraOpen 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 ↗
Measuring lifeLife OracleSmall solar boxes in the field listen to birds and bats and feel the soil. The Life Oracle adds what satellites see, and reads whether life is thriving there. Open standard, open software.Visit ↗
ConstructionConstruction Stored CarbonThe world's first open certification for carbon stored in buildings: bio-based materials turning the built environment into a carbon sink.Learn more →
OceanOcean Stored CarbonA certification protocol and financial metric for nature-based ocean removal: mangroves, seagrass and seaweed.Learn more →
RockRock Stored CarbonAn open protocol to measure and certify the CO₂ that crushed rock such as olivine binds as it weathers. In 2025 we took the draft to scientists at ERW25 in Antwerp and Goldschmidt in Prague.Learn more →
OceanGolden TidesOcean carbon removal on the Yucatán coast of Mexico: intercepting Sargassum before it beaches, turning a coastal blight into measurable blue carbon.Learn more →
Land and constructionFibre crops for buildingA pilot in Gelderland with Carbon Farmers and Building Balance: farmers grow bamboo, miscanthus and paulownia for bio-based building. The carbon stored in soil and materials is measured and certified, so farmers can be paid for it.Learn more →
PolicyABC Interreg: Agro Building CarbonA four-year Interreg Europe project connecting regenerative agriculture with bio-based construction across nine European regions.Visit ↗
LandKoolstofopbrengstCarbon Yield, a free tool for Dutch farmers and landowners to see what nature-inclusive farming could store, and how it can be financed.Visit ↗
GatheringNationale TopThe national summit on natural carbon sequestration, first held in June 2026: policymakers, entrepreneurs, scientists and financiers around a life-based economy.Learn more →
WorkshopLevenswerkplaatsAn open maker-space and lab at Tolhuistuin, Amsterdam-Noord, a permanent hackathon for bringing life back.Learn more →
FestivalInto The Great Wide OpenOne of Europe's most sustainable music festivals cleans up all its residual emissions with natural carbon removal. Together we built a Climate Transition Framework to organise it and report on it openly.Learn more →

Earlier interventions

Land · 2025We buy the NetherlandsCan owning land together be a systemic climate solution? An evening at the Warming Up Festival in November 2025, with Lenteland, Grond van Bestaan, De Jonge Voedselbosboeren and Climate Imaginaries at Sea.Learn more →
Gathering · 2024–2025CDR ConferenceIn 2024 and 2025, at Tolhuistuin in Amsterdam, the people who remove carbon met the people who fund, buy and regulate it. In 2025, 150 people came to talk about carbon removal in the built environment.Learn more →
Policy · 2025Input to the Dutch carbon removal roadmapWhen the ministry presented its national roadmap for carbon removal and Gelderland explored the market with other provinces, we gave our input and compared the two.Learn more →
Policy · 2023–2024Carbon sequestration in GelderlandCommissioned by the Province of Gelderland in December 2023: aligning carbon storage in soils and building materials with regional and European policy. It led to the ABC Interreg project.Learn more →
Rock · 2024Olivine boules courtsTwo jeu de boules courts at Tolhuistuin, laid with olivine that binds CO₂. Every game moves the stones and speeds the process up, a little.Learn more →
Policy · 2023Letter to Wopke Hoekstra at COP28At COP28, European Climate Commissioner Wopke Hoekstra accepted our letter on why carbon stored by nature, in soils and materials, is the basis of a circular bio-based economy.Learn more →
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