Climate Change: How to control the risks?

Policy brochure of MNP's Climate Change Research Team

Climate change has become one of the most complex and politically challenging environmental problems. Implementation of climate policy affects large parts of society and the economy. It faces trends of increasing emissions and needs to have a strong long-term orientation to control the risks of climate change. This is exactly an area where RIVM's long standing integrated environmental assessment expertise can play an important role in informing and advising Government and International Institutions.

The policy brochure highlights our work on national emission monitoring and long-term strategies to address climate change. Much of the work makes use of our strong modelling capabilities, including IMAGE, one of the world's leading Integrated Assessment Models, and interactive decision-support models for assisting policy-making processes. Our experience with policy-science dialogues enables us to better tune the analyses to the needs of policy makers. And that is of course our ultimate objective: to better assist the decision-making process towards controlling the risks of climate change at the national, European and global level.