Publications

Special report for the World Summit on Sustainable Development in Johannesburg, South Africa.

This report documents the 2002 Netherlands' annual submission of its greenhouse gas emission inventory in accordance with the United Nation's Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and the…

Never before in history was the interaction between people and their natural environment as complex and problematic as it is today.

Recently, RIVM has calculated the consequences of the Marrakesh Accords. This report updates RIVM's earlier report "Evaluating the Bonn Agreement and some key issues" by incorporating the impacts…

Specific energy use by trains is generally based on aggregated data on energy use and transport volume (top-down method). However, in order to determine specific energy use for new rail concepts or to…

The rapidly increasing atmospheric concentrations of greenhouse gases may lead to significant changes in regional and seasonal climate patterns. Such changes can strongly influence the diversity and…

Without US participation, the emission permit price is estimated to be low. Therefore, banking hot air by Russia and the Ukraine is of absolute importance for the development of a viable emissions…

The climate change regime is affected by a major credibility gap; there is a gap between what countries have been stating that they are willing to do and what they actually do.

The N budget for Europe (excluding the former Soviet Union) indicates that the 3 principal driving forces of the acceleration of the European N cycle are fertilizer production (14 Mt (mill. tonnes) N…

The multimedia environmental fate model SimpleBox is applied to compute steady-state concentration ratios with the aim to harmonize environmetal quality objectives of air, water, sediment and soil. In…