Alleviating inequality in climate policy costs: an integrated perspective on mitigation, damage and adaptation
Equity considerations play an important role in international climate negotiations. While policy analysis has often focused on equity as it relates to mitigation costs, there are large regional…
Paris Agreement climate proposals need a boost to keep warming well below 2 °C
The Paris climate agreement aims at holding global warming to well below 2 degrees Celsius and to 'pursue efforts' to limit it to 1.5 degrees Celsius. To accomplish this, countries have submitted…
Discussions on a long-term global goal to limit climate change, in the form of an upper limit to warming, were only partially resolved at the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change…
Blog Energiepodium - Toekomstdenken: over de grens begint een zwart gat
In het kader van de Energie Unie wordt lidstaten gevraagd in 2017 energiescenario’s in te leveren tot 2030 met een doorkijkje naar 2050. De Europese Commissie stuurt aan op een geüniformeerd kader…
Drivers and patterns of land biosphere carbon balance reversal
The carbon balance of the land biosphere is the result of complex interactions between land, atmosphere and oceans, including climatic change, carbon dioxide fertilization and land-use change. While…
In de februari-editie van het VVM-blad Milieu (netwerk van milieuprofessionals) presenteren PBL-onderzoekers de uitkomsten van de klimaattop in Parijs. Men concludeert dat de uitkomsten als een wonder…
Verschillen in schattingen tussen koolstofbudgetten nader bekeken
Een studie in Nature Climate Change geeft nieuwe schattingen voor het zogenaamde koolstofbudget. Dit is de maximale hoeveelheid van het belangrijkste broeikasgas, CO 2 , wat vanaf nu nog wereldwijd…
Trends in Global Vegetation Activity and Climatic Drivers Indicate a Decoupled Response to Climate Change
Detailed understanding of a possible decoupling between climatic drivers of plant productivity and the response of ecosystems vegetation is required. We compared trends in six NDVI metrics (1982–2010)…
Adaptation to climate change in the Netherlands - Studying related risks and opportunities
The Netherlands, similar to many other countries, is vulnerable to climate change. With its new Delta Programme, the Dutch Government has made an important step forward towards national climate…
Worldwide climate effects - Risks and opportunities for the Netherlands
Natural disasters due to weather extremes occur frequently, both in Europe and in the rest of the world. In the first decade of the 21st century, for example, 3000 natural disasters were reported…
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