Near-linear cost increase to reduce climate-change risk
The relationship between the costs of climate policy and the risks of climate change may look more favorable than commonly perceived. These findings are recently published in PNAS. The research...
European nature sensitive to deposition of nitrogen compounds
By 2010, nitrogen deposition will put the sustainability of about 70% of nature in the EU27 at risk. This was calculated by the Coordination Centre for Effects (CCE), using the new European critical...
No more augmentation of acidifying and eutrophying depositions
Until now, the calculated acidifying and eutrophying depositions were augmented to incorporate, for example, natural emissions and emission from outside of Europe. Recently, the contributions from...
2006 More than 60% of Europeans live in zones were air-quality thresholds for PM10 are being exceeded
Sixty percent of the EU27 population lives in zones were the daily PM10 limit value is being exceeded. For nitrogen dioxide (annual limit value) and ozone (8-hour maximum health target value), the...
Climate: Developing countries have to cut emissions by 15 to 30 percent
Studies from IPCC and the Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency show that industrialised countries can achieve stabilisation at 450 ppm, if their emissions are reduced by 25 to 40% below 1990...
Not all climate measures have a favourable effect on air quality
Overall, for air quality, the Dutch climate policy plan ‘Clean and Efficient’ (Schoon en Zuinig) appears to work out well. However, its effect on air quality also remains largely uncertain, partly due...
Chance of holding the Frisian Eleven-City Ice-Skating Marathon diminishes further
While in 1950 the chances of realising an ‘Elfstedentocht’ (Frisian Eleven-City Ice-Skating Marathon) were once every 4 years, scientists expect an Elfstedentocht once every 18 years for the present...
Even the most stringent of climate policies will not be able to prevent global warming entirely, according to a new analysis. In addition to efforts to reduce anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions, D...
Global targets for development and the environment will not be achieved if current trends are to continue. Analyses in IPCC Climate Change 2007, UNEP Global Environment Outlook 4, OECD Environmental...
Poverty reduction, climate change and biodiversity loss to be tackled as an integrated global problem
The world is too small to simultaneously produce enough food (including meat) for everyone and to deliver biofuels on a large enough scale to slow down climate change and maintain biodiversity. The...
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