Application of the IPCC uncertainty methods to EDGAR 4.1 global greenhouse gas inventories
The global greenhouse gas emission inventory EDGAR 4.1 for the period 1970-2005 was developed using international statistics and default methods and default emission factors from the latest 2006 IPCC…
Monitoring emissions and actions in the post-2012 climate regime
Climate change is a collective action problem; only if all major emitting countries take sufficient mitigating actions, dangerous human interference with the climate system can be averted. In order to…
Breaking Boundaries for Biodiversity. Expanding the policy agenda to halt biodiversity loss.
The coming decade will be critical for slowing down the loss of biodiversity. The COP10 of the Convention on Biological Diversity discusses strategies for doing so in Nagoya, Japan from 18 to 29…
Towards a general relationship between climate change and biodiversity: An example for plant species in Europe
Climate change is one of the main factors that will affect biodiversity in the future and may even cause species extinctions. We suggest a methodology to derive a general relationship between…
Estimation of incidence and social cost of colon cancer due to nitrate in drinking water in the EU: a tentative cost-benefit assessment
Research has shown that of the annual number of cases of colon cancer in Europe, around 3% could be attributed to nitrate in drinking water. For the Netherlands the annual figure is about 2% or 100…
Explaining agricultural intensity at the European and global scale
Agricultural land management and land use intensity differ across the globe but their constraints and drivers are limitedly understood at the continental and global scale. The main objective of this…
Adaptation strategy for climate-proofing biodiversity
Nature areas in the Netherlands are vulnerable to the consequences of climate change. Under implementation of the current nature policy, sustainable conservation of all plant- and animal species in…
A key challenge for humanity is how a future global population of 9 billion can all be fed healthily and sustainably. Here, we review how competition for land is influenced by other drivers and…
Spatial planning of a climate adaptation zone for wetland ecosystems
In a publication in Landscape Ecology we present a spatial planning approach for the implementation of adaptation measures to climate change in conservation planning for ecological networks…
On 14 September 2010 the PBL Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency presented its first Assessment of the Living Environment. In this broad study, PBL has assessed developments as they have taken…
PBL Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency
