Auto’s van de zaak zijn een factor van betekenis als het gaat om vergroening van de Nederlandse personenautomobiliteit. In deze studie is de naar CO 2 -uitstoot gedifferentieerde bijtelling…
Using planetary boundaries to support national implementation of environment-related Sustainable Development Goals
This report presents a methodology for translating the global environment-related ambitions of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) into national policy targets and applies this to the Netherlands…
In de Balans van de Leefomgeving brengt het PBL tweejaarlijks in beeld hoe de leefomgeving er in Nederland voor staat. In 2016 reflecteerden we op 20 jaar leefomgevingsbeleid en identificeerden we een…
Global and Regional Greenhouse Gas Emissions Neutrality
This report gives an overview of the literature on greenhouse gas emissions neutrality, as targeted in the Paris Agreement to achieve a ‘balance between anthropogenic emissions by sources and removal…
Global climate action of cities, regions and businesses
Action by cities, states, regions and business can go a long way towards meeting the goals of the Paris Climate Agreement, but their actions alone are not enough to hold global temperature increase to…
Scientific Opinion about the Guidance of the Chemical Regulation Directorate (UK) on how aged sorption studies for pesticides should be conducted, analysed and used in regulatory assessments
Aged sorption is the tendency of pesticides to adsorp more strongly with increasing time. As a results, it reduces the leaching of pesticides into groundwater. This opinion reviewes how aged sorption…
The scenario study ‘The Future of the North Sea’ explores the spatial and ecological impact of possible developments on the North Sea, up to 2050, with regard to nature, energy transition and food…
Scientific Opinion on the state of the art of Toxicokinetic/Toxicodynamic (TKTD) effect models for regulatory risk assessment of pesticides for aquatic organisms
The role of modelling in environmental risk assessment of plant protection products increases. They can be particularly important to predict (sub)lethal effects of plant protection products under…
Risk of increased food insecurity under stringent global climate change mitigation policy
Food insecurity can be directly exacerbated by climate change due to crop-production-related impacts of warmer and drier conditions that are expected in important agricultural regions. However…
A global analysis of future water deficit based on different allocation mechanisms
Freshwater scarcity is already an urgent problem in some areas, but may increase significantly in the future. To assess future developments, we need to understand how future population growth…
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