Income and energy efficiency projections key determinants of future CO2 emissions
To assess future climate change, it is important to have an understanding of future long-term emissions. Model-based scenarios are often used for this purpose. A new study published in ‘Nature Climate...
Survey shows: Europeans have a broad conception of nature
According to a recent survey, Europeans have a broad conception of nature. For them, anything from primeval forests, birds of prey and swamps, to forest plantations, garden plants and large crop...
In the Netherlands, the cost for society of land subsidence occurring in peatlands amounts to billions of euros. In urban areas the weak surface subsides under a physical load; up to 2050, the cost of...
Global decrease in coal burning leads to stalling of CO2 emissions in 2015
In 2015, after three years of slow growth, the growth of global CO2 emissions from fossil-fuel use and from steel and cement production was brought to a standstill. One of the main causes was the 2%...
Costs of 2 °C climate objective much higher than of achieving climate plans
Under the Paris Agreement, countries agreed to keep the increase in global average temperature to well below 2 °C above pre-industrial levels, and to pursue efforts to stay below 1.5 °C. Countries...
Not all countries on track to reach Paris climate proposals
In the Paris Climate Agreement, that went into effect on 4 November, countries promised to implement policies to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions. A new study by NewClimate Institute, PBL...
Countries should up climate action to cut a further 25% from predicted 2030 emissions
The world should increase its ambition to cut roughly a further quarter off predicted 2030 global greenhouse emissions and have any chance of minimizing dangerous climate change, UN Environment said...
Nature provides all kinds of goods and services that offer economic opportunities, such as a water, food, building materials and recreation areas. However, this 'natural capital' is under pressure due...
Summary for policymakers of the IPBES assessment on scenarios and models of biodiversity and ecosystem services out now
The Summary for Policymakers (SPM) of the IPBES (Intergovernmental Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services) scenarios and modelling assessment was launched on 25 August at the ScenNet...
Plans and policies to achieve the goal set at the Paris Climate Summit in 2015 have yet to be fully developed and implemented. There is an important role for science to feed political discussions by...
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