In the Spring of 2012, PBL held a survey among 1868 scientists studying various aspects of climate change, including physical climate, climate impacts, and mitigation. The main results of the survey...
Environmental damage and energy tax reform: the Dutch challenge
The ‘green result’ of the Dutch energy tax system could be significantly improved by better aligning the tax structure with overall environmental damage costs. For some energy products, such as...
PBL contributes to recently launched Aqueduct Global Flood Analyzer
The Aqueduct Global Flood Analyzer is a web-based interactive platform which measures river flood impacts by urban damage, affected GDP, and affected population at the country, state, and river basin...
PBL contributes to the European Environment State and Outlook (SOER) 2015
‘The European environment – state and outlook 2015 report’ (SOER 2015) provides a comprehensive assessment of the European environment’s state, trends and prospects, and places it in a global context...
The Netherlands National Energy Outlook reveals that objectives for renewable energy and energy saving cannot yet be achieved, but climate targets will be. Employment in the energy sector is shifting...
Climate researcher wins wager with climate sceptic
Late 2009, in the run-up to the international climate conference in Copenhagen, PBL climate researcher Bart Strengers had an online discussion with climate sceptic Hans Labohm on the website of the...
A clean, healthy and safe human environment calls for strong policy today
The Netherlands is still not fully prepared for the far-reaching chances in demography, climate, biodiversity and resource availability that may become reality over the coming decades. In order to...
Global CO2 emissions increase to new all-time record, but growth is slowing down
2013 saw global CO2 emissions from fossil fuel use and cement production reach a new all-time high. This was mainly due to the continuing steady increase in energy use in emerging economies over the...
Proposed climate policy pledges important step forward but fall short of 2°C
Pledges to reduce greenhouse gas / CO2 emissions in China, Europe and the US provide an important step forward for climate change action, but a more comprehensive effort is needed to limit global...
UN Calls for Global Carbon Neutrality by Mid to Late Century to Stay within 2°C
In order to limit global temperature rise to 2 o C and head off the worst impacts of climate change, global carbon neutrality should be attained by mid-to‐late century. This would also keep in check...