The current consumption of sulphur hexafluoride (SF 6 ) in electrical equipment is about 60% of which 42% is from original electrical equipment manufacturers and the remaining 18% goes to refill by…
Checks and verification at national and international levels
National inventories submitted under the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change are updated annually, i.e. the inventory for a new year is compiled and added and the emissions of the other…
Documentation of the activities within the framework of the completion of the CRF for the 2003 submission to the UNFCCC
The ministry of VROM is obliged to report the Dutch emission data for greenhouse gases to the EU (European Union's Greenhouse Gas Monitoring Mechanism) and the UNFCCC ( United Nation's Framework…
The integrated modeling system STONE for calculating nutrient emissions from agriculture in the Netherlands
For the Netherlands, a nutrient emission modeling system, called STONE, has been developed. It was designed for evaluation at the national and regional scale of the effects of changes in the…
Global emission sources of greenhouse gas emissions from industrial processes: SF6
This Supporting Information Paper provides a more comprehensive picture of global SF 6 emissions, by putting them in the broader perspective of total global emissions from industrial non-combustion…
More than 80% of the Dutch environmental and nature policy in the Netherlands is laid down in Brussels. Implementation of this policy is, however, causing conflicts with Dutch policy, as seen, for…
In search of sustainability. What can we learn from the past?
The last decade the words sustainability and sustainable development have gradually become a modern equivalent of and complement to the Declaration of Human Rights which inspired so many people…
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