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The Amazon Region: Tropical Deforestation, Biogeochemical Cycles and the Climate

The biogeochemical cycling of carbon, water, energy, aerosols, and trace gases in the Amazon Basin, and the interactions between deforestation, rainfall and climate were all investigated in this…
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Standard values for nutrients in surface-water bodies

Critical characteristics have been evaluated indication of the switch from the eutrophic status to the recovered clear-water status. Reduction of the nutrient load or nutrient concentration was…
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Biodiversity: how much is left? The Natural Capital Index framework (NCI)

The Natural Capital Index framework (NCI), developed as a contribution to the implementation of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), was designed to answer the questions ‘How much…
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Responsibility for Past and Future Global Warming: Uncertainties in Attributing Anthropogenic Climate Change

During the negotiations on the Kyoto Protocol, Brazil proposed a methodology to link the relative contribution of Annex I Parties to emission reductions with the relative contributions of Parties to…
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Responsibility for Past and Future Global Warming: Uncertainties in Attributing Anthropogenic Climate Change

During the negotiations on the Kyoto Protocol, Brazil proposed a methodology to link the relative contribution of Annex I Parties to emission reductions with the relative contributions of Parties to…
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Comparison of global passenger transport models and available literature

Over the last decade transport has been strongest growing sector in terms of worldwide energy demand. As a result, proper modelling of transport has become more important in models describing global…
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Preliminary modelling and mapping of critical loads for cadmium and lead in Europa

The Working Group on Effects (WGE) of the Convention on Long-range Transboundary Air Pollution of the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE-CLRTAP), noted the need to further develop…
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Ozone layer - climate change interactions. Influence on UV levels and UV related effects

Ozone in the atmosphere serves as a partially protective filter against the most harmful part of the solar UV-spectrum. Decreases in ozone lead to increases in ambient UV with a wide variety of…
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Reference projections for greenhouse gases in the Netherlands: emission projections for 2001 - 2010

Results are presented of the project 'reference projection for energy and greenhouse gases' carried out by RIVM and ECN for the Ministries of Housing, Spatial Planning and the Environment, and of…
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Exploring post-Kyoto climate regimes for differentiation of commitments to stabilise greenhouse gas concentrations

This report aims at exploring the implications of various international climate regimes for differentiating future commitments compatible with Article 2 of Climate Change Convention, i.e. stabilising…
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