In the spatial planning of the Netherlands it becomes important to consider climate change. The main challenges to be incorporated in spatial strategies are: flood protection, fresh water availability…
Presentation held at side event 'Emission reduction efforts by developed and developing countries: Will they be enough for meeting the two-degree target?' at COP15.
Presentation held at side event 'Emission reduction efforts by developed and developing countries: Will they be enough for meeting the two-degree target?' at COP15.
Launch seminar Getting into the Right Lane for 2050
The final report of Getting into the Right Lane for 2050 was released in Brussels on 30 October 2009, during the European Summit, with a seminar held at the location of the Swedish permanent…
How do biodiversity and poverty relate? An explorative study
Decision makers are faced with certain challenges when they explore ways of simultaneously achieving the Millennium Development Goals and the CBD 2010 targets for biodiversity conservation. Decreasing…
Meeting the 2 degree target. From climate objective to emission reduction measures
This PBL report gives an overview of the implications of the 2°C target, by systematically presenting information along the causal chain of climate change. One element is that the increase in global…
Too hot to handle? The emission surplus in the Copenhagen negotiations
In Copenhagen, one of three possible solutions could be found to the problem of surplus Russian and Ukrainian emission rights: 1) rich countries all agree to reduce more; 2) a more stringent target is…
Sharing developed countries' post-2012 greenhouse gas emission reductions based on comparable efforts
This study analyses comparable reduction efforts according to fundamentally different effort-sharing approaches for the individual industrialised (Annex I) countries for achieving an aggregated total…
PBL Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency
