Bio-energy has the potential to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. Indirect effects might partly or even completely undo this advantage. Indirect land use change (ILUC) – leading to emissions and...
New generation climate scenarios also focus on policy targets
Currently, a new generation of climate scenarios is being developed to enable a better understanding of the influence that greenhouse gases have on our climate. For the first time, these scenarios...
Correction wording flood risks for the Netherlands in IPCC report
In the 2007 IPCC report by the Working group 2 (Climate change 2007: Impacts, adaptation and vulnerability) a mistake has entered the text that was supplied by the Netherlands Environmental Assessment...
Copenhagen: increased support for two-degree target, but emission reductions too low
The political support for limiting the increase in global temperatures to two degrees has grown, but – as was expected – legally binding international agreements have not yet been made. China and...
Contribution of carbon to PM in the Netherlands is several tens of percentage points
Particulate matter (PM) in the Netherlands consists for 20 to 30% of carbon, according to measurements. This part of PM presently is believed to be especially associated with adverse health effects of...
Deforestation’s contribution to global CO2 emissions decreasing
Historically, emissions from deforestation were the dominant cause of increased CO2 concentration in the atmosphere. However, over the past decades, these emissions - although still considerable in...
Hot air not necessarily an obstacle for Copenhagen
In Copenhagen, one of three possible solutions could be found to the problem of surplus Russian and Ukrainian emission rights: (1) rich countries all agree to reduce more; (2) a more stringent target...
Reducing poverty while conserving biodiversity is possible on a local scale
Decision makers are faced with certain challenges when they explore ways of simultaneously achieving the Millennium Development Goals and the CBD 2010 targets for biodiversity conservation. Decreasing...
The increase in global greenhouse gas emissions needs to have turned into a decrease by around 2020, to reach a 2 °C target
A new PBL report gives an overview of the implications of the 2 °C target, by systematically presenting information along the causal chain of climate change. One element is that the increase in global...
Scientific insights UN climate panel still valid; risks need attention
Scientific insights into climate change that form the basis of the negotiations in Copenhagen are still valid. There are no grounds to doubt the conclusions in the IPCC report published in 2007. Since...
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