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Eight global assessments and outlooks in the field of environment and sustainable development, published in the last two years (2007-2008), have painted a concurrent picture of the world’s major...

New data show that global man-made greenhouse gas emissions increased 15% between 2000 and 2005, representing a sharp jump in the rate of emissions growth, which was 3% for the period 1990-1995 and 6%...

A stringent global climate policy will lead to considerable improvements in local air quality and consequently improves health. Measures to reduce emissions of greenhouse gases to 50% of 2005 levels...

A stringent global climate policy will lead to considerable improvements in local air quality and consequently improves health. Measures to reduce emissions of greenhouse gases to 50% of 2005 levels...

Measurements have shown that the spatial variability of urban background concentrations of particulate matter (PM) is about the same as the estimated measurement accuracy. The differences are 10% or...

With unchanged policies, terrestrial biodiversity will decrease between 2000 to 2050 at the same pace as during the last century. This was calculated with the GLOBIO3 model, developed by PBL in...

Large-scale use of electric vehicles could drastically reduce CO2 emissions, especially if more electricity would be generated by sustainable energy. Moreover, using electric vehicles would diminish...

In terms of land use, the impacts of territorial cohesion, however interpreted, would be virtually negligible for the Netherlands in the near future. In the long term, territorial cohesion does...

Reducing global meat consumption would reduce greenhouse gas emissions and cut the costs of climate policy substantially. This is the result of a PBL study published in Climatic Change. Apart from a...

This study analyses the possible approaches to greenhouse gas abatement by industrialised (Annex I) countries, to calculate their comparability. The reduction targets for Annex I countries and the...