PBL research supports Climate Conference Madrid (COP25)
The UN Climate Change Conference in Madrid (COP25) is the next step for governments to implement the 2015 Paris Climate Agreement. PBL Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency contributes to this...
Afforestation can mitigate climate change, but only to a certain extent
Afforestation can provide an important contribution to limiting climate change, as trees take up CO 2 from the atmosphere. However, the implementation of relatively cheap afforestation should not lead...
Reducing global emissions by 7.6% annually, over next decade, would achieve the 1.5 °C Paris target
Under current unconditional pledges, the world is heading for a 3.2 °C temperature rise, according to the 2019 edition of UNEP’s annual Emissions Gap Report. The technologies and policy knowledge on...
Current global development scenarios appear to fall short in halting biodiversity loss
Future projections of global environmental change reveal continuing biodiversity loss between now and 2050. This is the conclusion of a scenario analysis with PBL's global biodiversity model GLOBIO...
Putting Dutch ‘urban sprawl’ in a European perspective
The Netherlands is the European champion for urban sprawl. This dubious honour is the result of a calculation on land-use changes since 2000 performed by the ESPON SUPER project ( Sustainable...
Delaying climate action to achieve Paris target leads to strong dependence on CO2 removal
Several organisations and companies have developed scenarios to explore global future energy pathways that achieve the Paris climate goal of limiting temperature change to well below 2 °C. A new...
Human transformation of the Earth started much earlier than previously thought
Human activity probably started influencing climate already thousands of years ago. Permanent agriculture and livestock herding led to large-scale changes in natural ecosystems. This is concluded in a...
PBL publishes Policy brief on Action Agenda for Nature and People
The ‘Action Agenda for Nature and People’ of the UN Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) has potential to become a powerful vehicle for increasing the ambition level of global biodiversity policy...
Closing the emission gap between the Paris goals and national policies
We know there is a global emission gap between current policies, nationally determined contributions (NDCs), and the Paris Agreement goal to keep the global temperature rise this century well below 2...
PBL contributes to operationalizing the Action Agenda for Nature and People
PBL is exploring institutional options for the post-2020 global biodiversity framework. As part of this effort PBL has co-organised an international workshop (april 2019) to support the development...
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