Stabilising greenhouse gas concentrations at low levels: an assessment of options and costs
The EU target of limiting global temperature increase to 2 degrees Celcius can only be achieved with high certainty when greenhouse gas concentrations stabilise at low levels. Required emission…
From Climate objectives to emissions reduction. Insights into the opportunities for mitigating climate change
Required reductions for reaching low greenhouse gas stabilisation levels are technically feasible at likely range of direct costs in the order of 1-2% of GDP, but this will require immediate action, a…
Global greenhouse gas emissions increased 75% since 1970
Recent research by the Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency, in collaboration with the Joint Research Centre (JRC) of the EU in Ispra, showed that global emissions of the six Kyoto greenhouse…
Integrated Development and Climate Policies: how to realise benefits at national and international level?
Development efforts will be seriously hampered by the risks of climate change if these are not tackled. Reduced economic growth due to climate change damages, threatened or under-performing…
Greenhouse gas emissions in the Netherlands 1990-2004
This report documents the Netherlands' annual submission of the greenhouse gas emission inventory in accordance with the United Nation's Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and the…
Integrated modelling of global environmental change. An overview of IMAGE 2.4
New IMAGE model integrates global change for sustainability.There is an increasing recognition in science for policy making that problems of human development and the state of the natural environment…
Scientific assessment of solar induced climate change
In order to assess the understanding of the solar terrestrial relation, an assessment was made of the knowledge of the solar dynamo, the proxy records as well as on the understanding of the possible…
Mapping hotspots of nature areas with lowered groundwater tables
Ever since the 1980s it is politically accepted that nature areas in the Netherlands have been suffering from lowered groundwater tables due to intensified drainage of agricultural areas ('verdroging'…
Downscaling drivers of global environmental change. Enabling use of global SRES scenarios at the national and grid levels
Global environmental change scenarios typically distinguish between about 10-20 global regions. However, various studies need scenario information at a higher level of spatial detail. This paper…
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