On Monday, 20 September, State Secretary Van Geel of the Dutch Ministry of the Environment presented the report "Outstanding Environmental Issues", published by the Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency of the RIVM to the European Parliament. The report was covered in...
The Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency (MNP) at the RIVM and the Netherlands Bureau for Economic Policy Analysis (CPB) presented at 30th June the report entitled "How much does a 30% emission reduction cost?" This document analyzes the macro-economic costs of...
EU environmental policy has led to economic investments that have clearly benefited the health of people and ecosystems. But there are still important unresolved environmental issues in Europe, in particular climate change, loss of biodiversity, and air pollution in urban areas.
This report, that is compiled annually by the Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency (MNP) of RIVM in cooperation with TNO, Novem, AOO and Statistics Netherlands (CBS), has been produced to comply with commitments under the UN’s Framework Convention on Climate Change...
Many plant and animal species are unlikely to survive climate change. New analyses suggest that 15–37% of a sample of 1,103 land plants and animals would eventually become extinct as a result of climate changes expected by 2050. RIVM contributed to these analyses using the...
In a new publication in Global Biogeochemical Cycles a new component of the IMAGE model is presented: a global model that describes the fate of nitrogen from point and nonpoint sources in the hydrological system up to the river mouths at the 0.5 by 0.5 degree spatial and...
This report describes in much detail the new version of FAIR (Framework to Assess International Regimes for the differentiation of commitments).
The effects of climate change on nature cannot be ignored. Territories of plants and animals are moving to the north, birds start breeding earlier and food chains are being disturbed.
A workshop in Rome at the end of September will discuss ways of improving current methods for assessing sustainable development in Europe and thus strengthening governance in this area. The conclusions of the workshop will represent a starting point for the discussion on...
This increase in the 1990-2001 period is mainly due to an increase of CO2 emissions of 13%. In contrast, emissions of other greenhouse gases decreased. Methane and nitrous oxide emissions decreased by about 25% and 3%, respectively. The emissions of the fluorinated greenhouse...
