With unchanged policies, terrestrial biodiversity will decrease between 2000 to 2050 at the same pace as during the last century. This was calculated with the GLOBIO3 model, developed by PBL in...
Large-scale use of electric vehicles could drastically reduce CO2 emissions, especially if more electricity would be generated by sustainable energy. Moreover, using electric vehicles would diminish...
In terms of land use, the impacts of territorial cohesion, however interpreted, would be virtually negligible for the Netherlands in the near future. In the long term, territorial cohesion does...
Reducing global meat consumption would reduce greenhouse gas emissions and cut the costs of climate policy substantially. This is the result of a PBL study published in Climatic Change. Apart from a...
High emission reductions are necessary for Annex I countries to meet the EU climate target
This study analyses the possible approaches to greenhouse gas abatement by industrialised (Annex I) countries, to calculate their comparability. The reduction targets for Annex I countries and the...
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...
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