Financing Integrated Development and Climate Strategies
Climate Change is often seen as a threat to development. In the development and climate programme, the starting point is not climate but instead development priorities. The idea is that objectives of…
Greenhouse Gas Emissions in the Netherlands 1990-2003 - National Inventory Report 2005
The National Inventory Report ‘Greenhouse Gas Emissions in the Netherlands 1990-2003’ is now available. This report has been published at the request of the Dutch Ministry of Housing, Spatial Planning…
Biodiversity trends in Europe: development and testing of a species trend indicator for evaluating progress towards the 2010 target
This paper presents a trial of a species population trend indicator for evaluating progress towards the 2010 biodiversity target in Europe, using existing data.
Potential of biomass energy out to 2100, for four IPCC SRES land-use scenarios
The availability of the resources is an important factor for high shares of biomass to penetrate the electricity, heat or liquid fuel markets. We have analysed the geographical and technical potential…
Ecology: the convention on biological diversity's 2010 target
Governments are often accused of responding only to short-term and parochial considerations. It is therefore remarkable that representatives of 190 countries recently committed themselves at the…
Surface N balances and reactive N loss to the environment from global intensive agricultural production systems for the periode 1970-2030
The results indicate that the overall system N recovery and fertilizer use efficiency slowly increased in the industrialized countries between 1970 and 1995, the values for developing countries have…
The Netherlands is “well known” for its nitrogen problems; it has one of the highest reactive nitrogen (Nr) emission densities in the world. It is a small country at the delta of several large…
In the past 30 years world production of ruminant meat and milk has increased by about 40%, while the global area of grassland has increased by only 4%. This is because most of the increase in…
Exploring changes in world ruminant production systems
In the past 30 years world production of ruminant meat and milk has increased by about 40%, while the global area of grassland has increased by only 4%. This is because most of the increase in…
Quality and the future. Sustainability outlook. Summary
The quest for sustainability is about the quality of life and the possibilities for maintaining this quality in the future. The extent to which this quest is fulfilled will depend both on the public…
PBL Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency