Designing the conditions for an innovation system for sustainable development in a knowledge democracy
Sustainable development (SD) is a societal goal, requiring innovations in products, services and thinking. What are the requirements for an innovation system that produces more sustainable products…
Identifying the indirect effects of bio-energy production
Bio-energy has the potential to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. Indirect effects might partly or even completely undo this advantage. Indirect land use change (ILUC) – leading to emissions and…
Peatlands are found on all continents, however, uncertainties regarding their size and exact locations are very high. Horticulture is the main user of peat in the Netherlands. Compared to other…
The next generation of scenarios for climate change research and assessment
Currently, a new generation of climate scenarios is being developed to enable a better understanding of the influence that greenhouse gases have on our climate. For the first time, these scenarios…
Setting national emission ceilings for air pollutants: policy lessons from an ex-post evaluation of the Gothenburg Protocol
The Protocol to Abate Acidification, Eutrophication and Ground-level Ozone, or Gothenburg Protocol (UNECE EB, 1999), was developed within the framework of the UN Convention on Long Range Transboundary…
Comments from the Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency (PBL) on the European Commission's consultation paper on the future 'EU 2020' strategy
Based on Getting into the Right Lane for 2050, the Director of the Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency contributed to the consultation on the future EU 2020 strategy. One key point is that the…
Scientific experts in wide areas of climate change and human health response and representatives from the European Commission (EC), European Agencies and other international partners met to discuss…
Including adaptation costs and climate change damages in evaluating post-2012 burden-sharing regimes
Many studies have been published to evaluate the consequences of different post-2012 emission allocation regimes on regional mitigation costs. This paper goes one step further and evaluates not only…
Consequences of the cultivation of energy crops for the global nitrogen cycle
We quantified the impact of the production of energy crops on the global N cycle for the recently published OECD “Global cooperation for environmental policy” (GC) scenario. We project that large…
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