Exploration of regional and global cost-supply curves of biomass energy from short-rotation crops at abandoned cropland and rest land under four IPCC SRES land-use scenarios
In recent years, the interest in biomass energy has increased considerably worldwide. There are several reasons for this: biomass is widely available and it has the potential to produce modern energy…
Contributions of non modelled sources to the acidfying and eutrophicating deposition
Until now, the calculated acidifying and eutrophying depositions were augmented to incorporate, for example, natural emissions and emission from outside of Europe. Recently, the contributions from…
Sharing the burden of adaptation financing: Translating ethical principles into practical policy
Burden-sharing of adaptation costs to climate change has received limited attention in the scientific literature. This study identifies a set of principles that can serve as a basis for choices about…
Near-linear cost increase to reduce climate-change risk
The relationship between the costs of climate policy and the risks of climate change may look more favorable than commonly perceived say researchers from PBL, Wageningen University and the Potsdam…
Conditional probabilistic estimates of 21st century greenhouse gas emissions based on the storylines of the IPCC-SRES scenarios
The conditional probabilistic scenario analysis combines statistical methods of uncertainty analysis at parameter level with storylines which recognize the deep uncertainty that exists for several…
Assessment of bottom-up sectoral and regional mitigation potentials. Background report
In this study estimates are provided for greenhouse gas reduction potentials of different economic sectors in three world regions. The estimates are an update of the values reported in the Fouth…
2006 Annual member States reporting on ambient air quality assessment - 'The Questionnaire'
Sixty percent of the EU27 population lives in zones were the daily PM 10 limit value is being exceeded. For nitrogen dioxide (annual limit value) and ozone (8-hour maximum health target value), the…
In the environmental assessments by the Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency (PBL), the GeoPEARL model is used to calculate the leaching of pesticides to the groundwater at the national scale…
Modelling local environmental quality and its impact on health. Background document for an international scientific audit of PBL team LOK
This report describes the methods used by the Quality of the Local Environment Team (LOK) for evaluation of government policy concerning the quality of the local environment and the consequences…
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