In the Paris Climate Agreement, which went into effect on 4 November 2016, countries promised to implement policies to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions. A report by NewClimate Institute, PBL Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency and the International Institute for...
Europa zal zijn milieudoelstellingen voor 2030 niet halen als er de komende jaren niet snel actie wordt ondernomen om het hoge tempo van biodiversiteitsverlies, de toenemende effecten van klimaatverandering en het overmatig gebruik van natuurlijke hulpbronnen aan te pakken....
The Paris Agreement’s objective is to keep global warming to well below 2 ˚C or even 1.5 ˚C. Now, 4 years after Paris, the question arises whether countries are indeed doing enough to achieve this objective? What are the possible impacts of the promises and national climate...
There is strong interdependency between the use of food, energy and water resources and it is closely linked to environmental challenges, such as climate change and loss of biodiversity. These linkages are expected to become even more important with an increasing demand for...
De VN-klimaatconferentie in het Spaanse Madrid (de 25e conference of parties, COP25) geldt als de volgende stap voor regeringen om de klimaatafspraken in het Parijs-akkoord om te zetten in beleid. Het Planbureau voor de Leefomgeving (PBL) draagt aan dit proces bij met...
The UN Climate Change Conference in Madrid (COP25) is the next step for governments to implement the 2015 Paris Climate Agreement. PBL Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency contributes to this process with several studies and reports on climate change which not only...
Bebossing kan een belangrijke bijdrage leveren aan het beperken van klimaatverandering doordat bomen CO2 uit de lucht halen. Inzetten op relatief goedkope bebossing moet echter niet leiden tot minder investeringen in bijvoorbeeld hernieuwbare energie of elektrisch rijden,...
Afforestation can provide an important contribution to limiting climate change, as trees take up CO2 from the atmosphere. However, the implementation of relatively cheap afforestation should not lead to lower investments in, for example, renewable energy or the...
Under current unconditional pledges, the world is heading for a 3.2 °C temperature rise, according to the 2019 edition of UNEP’s annual Emissions Gap Report. The technologies and policy knowledge on how to reduce emissions are available, but transformations must begin today....
Several organisations and companies have developed scenarios to explore global future energy pathways that achieve the Paris climate goal of limiting temperature change to well below 2 °C. A new report by PBL compares these scenarios on key transition indicators. The report...
