PBL Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency

Poverty reduction, climate change and biodiversity loss to be tackled as an integrated global problem

Newsitem | 22-07-2008
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The world is too small to simultaneously produce enough food (including meat) for everyone and to deliver biofuels on a large enough scale to slow down climate change and maintain biodiversity. The Netherlands in a Sustainable World (second sustainability outlook) presents sufficient options for fighting poverty, tackling climate change and limiting the loss of biodiversity. The costs of these options can be limited to a few percent of GDP in 2040. However this will only be possible with coordinated international policies.

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