Assessment of biodiversity measurement approaches for business and financial institutions
Measurement of biodiversity performance by businesses and financial institutions is rapidly gaining attention. In parallel, there is a growing demand for more transparency in business performance with…
Planetary security: in search of drivers of violence and conflict
The potential links between climate change, environmental change, migration and conflict have received growing attention from scientists, media and global institutions over the last decade. This…
Growers, buyers and suppliers have not been sufficiently successful in reducing the use of chemical plant protection products. Policy is needed, by both the government and the sector, to stop the…
Environmental co-benefits and adverse side-effects of alternative power sector decarbonization strategies
A rapid and deep decarbonization of power supply worldwide is required to limit global warming to well below 2 °C. Beyond greenhouse gas emissions, the power sector is also responsible for numerous…
Het PBL-signalenrapport "Zorg voor landschap " pleit voor een landschapsinclusief omgevingsbeleid. In het huidige omgevingsbeleid is landschap vaak een sluitpost. Het is wenselijk om landschap…
In deze notitie beschrijft het PBL de tussentijdse resultaten van de Nationale analyse waterkwaliteit, een onderdeel van de Delta-aanpak Waterkwaliteit. De Nationale analyse is een traject van joint…
Gewasbeschermingsmiddelen en de realisatie ecologische kwaliteit van oppervlaktewater 2018
Het aantal gemeten overschrijdingen van de waterkwaliteitsnormen voor chronische blootstelling van waterorganismen aan gewasbeschermingsmiddelen is in de periode 2016-2018 met 30% afgenomen ten…
Afforestation for climate change mitigation: Potentials, risks and trade‐offs
Afforestation is considered a cost‐effective and readily available climate change mitigation option. In recent studies afforestation is presented as a major solution to limit climate change. However…
Integrated Solutions for the Water-Energy-Land Nexus: Are Global Models Rising to the Challenge?
Increasing human demands for water, energy, food and materials, are expected to accentuate resource supply challenges over the coming decades. Experience suggests that long-term strategies for a…
Aquaculture production is a large, spatially concentrated source of nutrients in Chinese freshwater and coastal seas
This article presents a spatially explicit inventory of nutrient emissions from aquaculture to waterbodies for 2006 and 2017. Aquaculture production and nutrient excretion are now comparable to that…
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