Charted Choices 2011-2015 - Effects of nine election platforms on the economy and the environment
At the request of nine political parties, CPB Netherlands Bureau for Economic Policy Analysis and PBL Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency have mapped out the effects of the respective election…
The feasibility of low CO2 concentration targets and the role of bio-energy with carbon capture and storage (BECCS)
The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC 1992) calls for stabilization of atmospheric greenhouse gas (GHG) concentrations at a level that would prevent dangerous anthropogenic…
Sharing the reduction effort to limit global warming to 2 degree C
In order to stabilise long-term greenhouse gas concentrations at 450 ppm CO 2 eq or less, developed countries as a group should reduce emissions by 25 to 40% below 1990 levels, by 2020, while…
Sharing developed countries’ post-2012 greenhouse gas emission reductions based on comparable efforts
The Bali Action Plan as adopted under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) in 2007, states that Annex I (developed) countries should reduce their greenhouse gas emissions…
Identifying the indirect effects of bio-energy production
Bio-energy has the potential to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. Indirect effects might partly or even completely undo this advantage. Indirect land use change (ILUC) – leading to emissions and…
Including adaptation costs and climate change damages in evaluating post-2012 burden-sharing regimes
Many studies have been published to evaluate the consequences of different post-2012 emission allocation regimes on regional mitigation costs. This paper goes one step further and evaluates not only…
Traffic emissions of elemental carbon (EC) and organic carbon (OC) and their contribution to PM2.5 and PM10 urban background concentrations
The contribution of carbon to particulate matter is larger in urban areas than outside those areas. The increment in urban EC and OC concentrations was found mainly to be caused by traffic emissions…
Transport scenarios for the Netherlands for 2030. A description of the scenarios for the OECD project 'Environmental Sustainable Transport'
The Environmental Sustainable Transport (EST) project contains a business-as-usual scenario and three EST scenarios: one 'high-technology' scenario containing only technological changes, one 'capacity…
Deposition of base-cations in Europe and its role in acid neutralization and forest nutrition
In considering acidification problems, emphasis is seldom placed on the role of deposition of base-cations such as Na + , Mg 2 + , Ca 2 + and K + . Besides their ability to neutralize acid input, base…
Nitrogen pollution on the local and regional scale: the present state of knowledge and research needs
Concerns the results of a feasibility study on the realisation of a nitrogen research programme for the local scale. This study, initiated by the Ministries of Housing, Physical Planning and…
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