Reducing global meat consumption would reduce greenhouse gas emissions and cut the costs of climate policy substantially. This is the result of a PBL study published in Climatic Change. Apart from a…
A stringent global climate policy will lead to considerable improvements in local air quality and consequently improves health. Measures to reduce emissions of greenhouse gases to 50% of 2005 levels…
Spatial aspects affecting acidification factors in European acidification modelling
Plain linear models have recently been used in methodologies to model fate and transport for assessing acidification in life cycle impact assessment (LCIA), or in support of air pollution abatement…
A very simple dynamic soil acidification model for scenario analyses and target load calculations
A very simple dynamic soil acidification model, VSD, is described, which has been developed as the simplest extension of steady-state models for critical load calculations and with an eye on regional…
Exploring comparable post-2012 reduction efforts for Annex I countries
This study analyses the possible approaches to greenhouse gas abatement by industrialised (Annex I) countries, to calculate their comparability. The reduction targets for Annex I countries and the…
Environmental effectiveness and economic consequences of fragmented versus universal regimes: what can we learn from model studies?
Besides the negotiations within the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) on Kyoto Protocol predecessors, additional ad hoc contacts are also taking place between major…
New environmental policy for system innovation: Casus alternatives for fossil motor fuels
The Fourth Dutch Environmental Policy Plan, released in 2001, was explicitly focused on long term system innovations to solve the very tenacious problems of climate change and global biodiversity (4th…
Modeling global residential sector energy demand for heating and air conditioning in the context of climate change
Worldwide, households consume about a third of all end-use energy. Although space cooling is currently a much less important energy use, it is growing rapidly both in high-income countries and in…
Agreeing to disagree: uncertainty management in assessing climate change, impacts and responses by the IPCC
Dealing consistently with risk and uncertainty across the IPCC reports is a difficult challenge. Huge practical difficulties arise from the Panel’s scale and interdisciplinary context, the complexity…
Dynamic modelling of metals - time scales and target loads
Over the past decade steady-state methods have been developed to assess critical loads of metals avoiding long-term risks in view of food quality and eco-toxicological effects on organisms in soils…
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