The Water Framework Directive: challenges and chances for the Netherlands
The European Water Framework Directive stipulates that the quality of groundwater and surface water in the Netherlands should have attained an ecologically adequate level by 2015. A major national...
How to compare environmental performance of EU Member States
There is a growing need for comparative indicators to measure Member State’s environmental performance. To fulfill this need, MNP has developed the European Benchmark Indicators (EBI) to draw...
Article about the new version of the Map Comparison Kit
A new version of the Map Comparison Kit can be downloaded free of charge from the RIKS website. This is one of the novelties in the article, published in the Journal of Environmental Modeling and...
Climate change policies beneficial for European air quality
European climate change action will benefit air pollution abatement by 2030, with costs for controlling emissions dropping by EUR 10 billion per year. Reduced emissions will lead to a fall in damage...
EU action plan on biodiversity: apply existing instruments more effectively
Effective actions for the Netherlands to meet the targets of the EU action plan could be the further integration of nature area conservation with wider countryside management and improvement of...
Trade-offs and synergies between energy security, economy, and the environment
Sustainable energy policies are needed in Europe to reduce air pollution and greenhouse-gas emissions. This quick scan shows that climate mitigation strategies also reduce air pollution and increase...
Biodiversity further deteriorates in the next 50 year
Biodiversity loss will remain unabatedly high up to 2050, with a moderate economic growth and an increase of the world population from 6 to about 9 billon for whom the average per capita income will...
Ingredients for the revision of the European Sustainable Development Strategy
Sustainability policy in Europe is currently dominated by the Lisbon Strategy for the promotion of more growth and jobs. This dominance represses other goals for sustainable development. Revision of...
Scale of particulate matter problem smaller than previously considered
There are strong indications that the particulate matter concentration in the Netherlands is currently 10-15% less than previously observed. In the past two years, lower concentrations have been...
Climate change and its effects are also observable in the Netherlands. To date the effects are still limited in magnitude. This might change in the coming decades. Present trends in, for example, sea...
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