Paris Agreement climate proposals need a boost to keep warming well below 2 °C
The Paris climate agreement aims at holding global warming to well below 2 degrees Celsius and to 'pursue efforts' to limit it to 1.5 degrees Celsius. To accomplish this, countries have submitted…
Energy, land-use and greenhouse gas emissions trajectories under a green growth paradigm
This paper describes the possible developments in global energy use and production, land use, emissions and climate changes following the SSP1 (Shared Socioeconomic Pathways) storyline, a development…
Hoe de voortgang van een transitie naar een circulaire economie (CE-transitie) in productketens kan worden gemeten is een belangrijke vraag. Het PBL heeft samen met de Universiteit Utrecht een…
Discussions on a long-term global goal to limit climate change, in the form of an upper limit to warming, were only partially resolved at the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change…
The role of institutions in the morphology of housing areas
There are substantial differences in morphology between Dutch residential areas and those in the neighbouring regions of Flanders in Belgium and North Rhine-Westphalia in Germany, despite similar…
Smart, Green and Inclusive Urban Growth: Visualising Recent Developments in European Cities
Cities are expected to play a key role in delivering the Europe 2020 strategy for smart, green and inclusive growth. Concerning smart growth, cities are at the forefront of innovation. Moreover, the…
Deconstructing Economic, Ecologic and Social Urban Discourses for Innovation Policies
Worldwide, cities are called upon to help achieve a wide variety of policy goals, varying from economic growth, increased energy efficiency and the mitigation of global warming, to improving the…
Circulaire economie, de fysieke omgeving en omgevingsbeleid
Dit onderzoek gaat over relaties tussen de circulaire economie, de fysieke omgeving en omgevingsbeleid. De verandering van de traditionele lineaire economie (met take-make-waste) naar een circulaire…
Het streven naar een circulaire economie staat nationaal en internationaal hoog op de agenda. Een circulaire economie is gericht op het optimaal inzetten en hergebruiken van grondstoffen en producten…
The Europeanisation of spatial planning in the Netherlands
One of the priorities of the Dutch EU presidency is the European Better Regulation Agenda. A particular cause for concern within this agenda is the fragmentation of EU policy. In this context, PBL…
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