Electric driving - Evaluating transitions based on system options
Large-scale use of electric vehicles could drastically reduce CO 2 emissions, especially if more electricity would be generated by sustainable energy. Moreover, using electric vehicles would diminish…
Territorial Impact Assessment of Territorial Cohesion for the Netherlands
In terms of land use, the impacts of territorial cohesion, however interpreted, would be virtually negligible for the Netherlands in the near future. In the long term, territorial cohesion does…
The Environmental Food Crisis: the environment’s role in averting future food crises
A new rapid response assessment report released by United Nations Environmental Programme (UNEP) warns that up to 25% of the world’s food production may be lost by 2050, due to environmental breakdown…
Assessment of the relation between climate and nitrogen related policy for the Dutch situation
This assessment reviews the major drivers and interactions of the cycles of nitrogen and greenhouse gasses in the Netherlands. The objective was to identify opportunities for synergism of climate and…
Conceptualizing sustainable development. An assessment methodology connecting values, knowledge, worldviews and scenarios
The idea of sustainable development reflects one of the leading aspirations of humankind in the 21st century, not unlike the idea of socialism in the early 20th century and the Declaration of Human…
GLOBIO 3: A Framework to investigate options for reducing global terrestrial biodiversity loss
With unchanged policies, terrestrial biodiversity will decrease between 2000 to 2050 at the same pace as during the last century. This was calculated with the GLOBIO 3 model, developed by PBL in…
Economic impacts of climatic variability and subsidies on European agriculture and observed adaptation strategies
In order to assess agricultural adaptation to climate impacts, new methodologies are needed. The translog distance function allows assessing interactions between different factors, and hence the…
Contribution of N2O to the greenhouse gas balance of first-generation biofuels
In this study, we analyze the impact of fertilizer- and manure-induced N 2O emissions due to energy crop production on the reduction of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions when conventional transportation…
Reducing global meat consumption would reduce greenhouse gas emissions and cut the costs of climate policy substantially. This is the result of a PBL study published in Climatic Change. Apart from a…
A stringent global climate policy will lead to considerable improvements in local air quality and consequently improves health. Measures to reduce emissions of greenhouse gases to 50% of 2005 levels…
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