Environmental challenges around the Rhine and Yangtze rivers are very similar
The river basins of the European Rhine and the Chinese Yangtze feature similar challenges: environmental pollution, greenhouse gas emissions, biodiversity, urbanisation and climate adaptation. The...
Global roll-out of successful policies may help limit global warming to well below 2 °C
An accelerated, global roll-out of good practices in reducing greenhouse gas emissions may help to limit global warming to well below 2 °C, as agreed in the Paris Agreement on climate change. This is...
Climate target 2030 requires vigorous implementation of existing and new policy
Taking adopted and proposed policies as the point of reference, Dutch greenhouse gas emissions are expected to decrease by between 38% and 48% in 2030, compared to 1990 levels. This means that the...
Five years after the Paris Agreement: Large gap between promises and current implementation
Achieving the overall goals of the Paris Agreement will require a deep reduction in global greenhouse gas emissions, ideally by around 40%–50% by 2030. An international study involving modelling teams...
EU Emissions Trading System: effective and credible way to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, PBL researchers conclude
Overall, the EU Emissions Trading System (EU ETS) is an effective instrument for reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. In an article published today in the ifo DICE Report, researchers Herman...
In the scientific journal Nature Climate Change, researchers from PBL Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency and Utrecht University are presenting a new meta-model for estimating the costs of...
Emissions: four times the work or one-third of the time to comply with the Paris Agreement
New synthesis shows what a wasted decade means for the climate pact made in Paris. New research shows that nations must now do much more and much faster to limit global warming to well below 2 °C, let...
Half of major emitting countries still not on track to reach Paris climate proposals
In the Paris Climate Agreement, which went into effect on 4 November 2016, countries promised to implement policies to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions. A report by NewClimate Institute, PBL...
Update of stocktake tool hosted by PBL measures progress towards Paris goals
The Paris Agreement’s objective is to keep global warming to well below 2 ˚C or even 1.5 ˚C. Now, 4 years after Paris, the question arises whether countries are indeed doing enough to achieve this...
Integrated scenarios to support analysis of the food–energy–water nexus
There is strong interdependency between the use of food, energy and water resources and it is closely linked to environmental challenges, such as climate change and loss of biodiversity. These...
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