Pledges and actions - A scenario analysis of mitigation costs and carbon market impacts for developed and developing countries
The current proposals for Copenhagen by the developed countries, including those by the United States, to reduce emissions do not yet suffice to limit global warming to a rise of 2 ˚C. This target has…
Development of a methodology for the assessment of global environmental impacts of traded goods and services
This report investigates methods for the assessment of global environmental impacts of traded goods and services. The report reviews and evaluates environmental accounting methodologies and specifies…
Ethics and public perception of climate change: exploring the Christian voices in the US public debate
Over the past few years, the issue of climate change has received an increasing amount of attention within religious communities in the United States and in the rest of the world. Recent initiatives…
Sharing the burden of financing adaptation to climate change
As global impacts of climate change become observable and more serious, and given that a large part of the impacts will be experienced in less developed countries and regions, the issue of…
The feasibility of meeting both the short-term and long-term targets of environmental policy is heavily influenced by the consequences of the current recession. In the short term, the environment will…
Current policies are delivering benefits for Dutch nature. The area devoted to nature conservation is increasing and the environmental and spatial conditions are improving. Nevertheless, the trends…
Traffic emissions of elemental carbon (EC) and organic carbon (OC) and their contribution to PM2.5 and PM10 urban background concentrations
The contribution of carbon to particulate matter is larger in urban areas than outside those areas. The increment in urban EC and OC concentrations was found mainly to be caused by traffic emissions…
Global nitrogen and phosphate in urban wastewater for the period 1970 to 2050
This paper constitutes the first spatially explicit, global assessment of sewage N and P emissions to surface water for the period 1970 to 2000, and the first projection of such N and P emissions for…
The contribution of sea salt to PM10 and PM2.5 in the Netherlands
Measurements and model results confirm that when PM concentrations are high, the contribution of sea salt to PM is less than the averaged annual contribution. In these cases, subtraction of the sea…
Epiphytic macrolichen community correlates with modeled air pollutants and forest conditions
Novel systems combining bioindicators, models, and remote sensing are possible cost-effective methods to monitor regional-scale pollution. Epiphytic macrolichen communities have been widely used as…
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