Advancing Locally Led Approaches for people, climate and nature
Locally led approaches are increasingly being recognised as essential for addressing interconnected climate, biodiversity, and development challenges. These approaches require enabling political…
From Agenda to Action: Accountability Through Measurable Goals
The Global Action Agenda under the UNFCCC was updated at COP30 and is a promising instrument to catalyse climate action, focusing on cooperation between countries, subnational, and non-state actors…
The global biodiversity crisis is calling for transformative change to move towards a nature-positive future in which nature is restored for the benefit of people and planet. This is articulated in…
By March 2026, 104 Parties communicated Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs, mitigation ambitions) for 2035. This policy brief evaluates the impact of these NDCs on global emissions and assess…
Remembering and anticipating precarity: a temporal perspective on housing experiences of labour migrants in the Netherlands
This article contributes to geographical scholarship on home as a place of ontological security by considering the multitemporal, long-term lived effects of housing precarity among labour migrants…
Operationalizing the biodiversity Global Review to strengthen CBD effectiveness: priorities for COP17 and beyond
The adoption of the Global Biodiversity Framework (GBF) under the UN Convention on Biological Diversity during COP15 in 2022 marked an important milestone for international biodiversity governance…
Promising climate progress from net-zero ambitions to the Paris Agreement goal
The Paris Agreement requires strong commitments from countries worldwide. Multiple studies have shown that the short-term contributions of countries, as communicated in the NDCs, fall short of…
New Global Climate Scenarios: Highest Emissions Scenario Revised
In a paper published in Geoscientific Model Development, a group of climate scientists led by Detlef van Vuuren describes a new set of global emissions scenarios that will form the basis for much…
Future pathways to restore the ecological quality of global freshwater ecosystems
This is a background report of the study ‘Geography of future water challenges – Bending the trend’, which gives an overview of possible achievements of water-related measures within the SSP2 Baseline…
Industry energy support and its interaction with EU ETS
European governments aim to help energy-intensive industries remain competitive while meeting climate targets. New research by the Netherlands Bureau for Economic Policy Analysis (CPB) and the…
PBL Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency
