Afforestation can provide an important contribution to limiting climate change, as trees take up CO2 from the atmosphere. However, the implementation of relatively cheap afforestation should not lead to lower investments in, for example, renewable energy or the...
Under current unconditional pledges, the world is heading for a 3.2 °C temperature rise, according to the 2019 edition of UNEP’s annual Emissions Gap Report. The technologies and policy knowledge on how to reduce emissions are available, but transformations must begin today....
Future projections of global environmental change reveal continuing biodiversity loss between now and 2050. This is the conclusion of a scenario analysis with PBL's global biodiversity model GLOBIO, published in Global Change Biology, November 4.
Several organisations and companies have developed scenarios to explore global future energy pathways that achieve the Paris climate goal of limiting temperature change to well below 2 °C. A new report by PBL compares these scenarios on key transition indicators. The report...
Human activity probably started influencing climate already thousands of years ago. Permanent agriculture and livestock herding led to large-scale changes in natural ecosystems. This is concluded in a paper published in Science on 30 August 2019, led by an international,...
The ‘Action Agenda for Nature and People’ of the UN Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) has potential to become a powerful vehicle for increasing the ambition level of global biodiversity policy and move towards rapid and scalable implementation. In a policy brief, PBL...
We know there is a global emission gap between current policies, nationally determined contributions (NDCs), and the Paris Agreement goal to keep the global temperature rise this century well below 2 °C, but how can we close this gap? The policy brief ‘Beyond the emission...
PBL is exploring institutional options for the post-2020 global biodiversity framework. As part of this effort PBL has co-organised an international workshop (april 2019) to support the development and implementation of the Action Agenda for Nature and People a success. A...
The Dutch economy has around 85,000 circular activities that employ around 420,000 people (4% of all jobs). While this shows that circularity has gained a foothold in the Dutch economy, the transition towards a circular economy is not without challenges. The Netherlands,...
In the transition to a more sustainable land future, our land footprint will, among many land-use change drivers, mainly depend on the interplay of population growth, agricultural efficiency, land-use regulation and consumption changes. In a new study published in Nature...
