Transition towards an EU sustainable food system involves many challenges
Making the EU’s production, consumption and trade in food environmentally sustainable is possible, but requires not only a major shift in public attitudes, policies and knowledge, but also seizing...
Greenhouse gas emission levels continued to rise in 2016
In 2016, total global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions continued to increase, by about 0.5%, reaching 49.3 gigatonnes in CO2 equivalent. This was mainly due to the rise in non-CO2 emission levels...
LWE Nexus challenges gain from integrated policy approaches
The analysis, which combines PBL’s IMAGE and OECD’s ENV-Linkages models, contains a set of scenarios on the potential bottlenecks in the supply of water, land and energy. To alleviate negative side...
On 12 October Professor Harriet Bulkeley (Durham University) will deliver a PBL Academy lecture, titled: Governance by Experimentation: climate politics and the city.
Micronutrients: a looming concern for Sub-Saharan agriculture
A PBL study explores how a lack of soil micronutrients puts countries in Sub-Sahara Africa at risk. A range of metals and minerals is essential to sustainably increase agricultural production. Though...
Large areas around the world are under pressure from land degradation
A study by PBL Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency shows that land degradation is a global problem. This is especially risky in vulnerable drylands where the population is growing much faster...
Visualising the complex cohesion between global sustainability challenges
The publication People and the Earth, with 23 infographics on the United Nations’ goals for sustainable development, was launched during an event at the Museon in The Hague. The global challenges...
PhD promotion Mariësse van Sluisveld: 2°C through different lenses
On 4 July PBL researcher Mariësse van Sluisveld obtained her PhD at Utrecht University. The main conclusion of her research is that, in order to stay well below the 2°C climate objective, combining...
A reflexive monitoring and evaluation framework for the Delta Programme
Throughout the world, adaptation to climate change is one of the major challenges. In the Netherlands, under the Delta Programme, adaptation strategies have been developed for flood protection...
Monitoring progress of the circular economy in the EU
The European Commission’s draft monitoring framework for a circular economy, which is currently under review, may benefit from broadening it to include indicators that measure both the progress of the...
PBL Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency
