Millennium Development Goals: progress expected, but not enough and not everywhere
More than a billion people live in poverty, without adequate food, safe drinking water or clean energy. Aimed at providing basic quality of life, the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) are leading on...
Sea salt and mineral dust contribution to particulate matter; model calculations
The natural contribution to particulate matter (PM) can now be calculated with a model for PM. Therefore, the LOTOS EUROS model was extended with a description of PM from sea salt and mineral dust. In...
Global CO2 emissions: annual increase halved in 2008
Very high oil prices together with a worldwide financial crisis have caused a halving of the annual increase in global emissions of carbon dioxide (CO2) from fossil fuel consumption and cement...
Large contribution of HFC emissions to global warming expected
By 2050, the effect of hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs) on global warming will be as large as that of 14% of global CO2 emissions, in business-as-usual scenarios. HFCs are strong greenhouse gases, and are...
New assessments must answer the question ‘What are priority actions?’
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...
Worldwide greenhouse gas emissions growing faster since 2000
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%...
Global climate policy will reduce outdoor air pollution
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...
Global climate policy will reduce outdoor air pollution
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...
Background concentrations of particulate matter in a city show little variation
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...
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