The report presents a mixed picture. Over the past 25 years, there have been notable improvements in child well-being in the group of countries examined in this report: steady decline in child mortality, overall reduction in adolescent suicide and increase in school completion rates. But the last five years have …
This report is meant to contribute to the debate between policymakers and research groups on the steps that need to be taken to meet long-term climate targets. This reports shows that the current focus on intermediate targets for the year 2020 needs to be extended to include the long-term targets. …
The share of microgeneration (power generation at the level of households and small businesses) in the Dutch electricity system continues to grow. Over time, this development may pose a threat to the reliability and efficiency of the Dutch electricity balancing market. We investigated possible changes to the design of the …
Restaurant chain McDonald's Europe launched a farming program on Thursday which could lead to cows getting weekly foot baths but water being saved in the production of lettuce and tomatoes. The company, which has 6,600 restaurants in 40 European countries, is seeking to tackle a wide range of environmental and …
There are strong links between the problems of climate change and air pollution, in particular the fact that emissions from fossil fuel combustion contribute significantly to both problems. Consequently, measures to abate emissions of greenhouse gases may show strong co-benefits in terms of less air pollution and vice versa.
Investing in urban cycling provisions is ultimate climate strategy European countries have committed to reduce carbon emissions by at least 20 per cent by 2020, compared to 1990. This includes my country: the Netherlands. The targeted reductions are realized at home or through
Netherlands-based carbon project developer OneCarbon is seeking an equity injection of tens of millions of euros, including a possible takeover, the company told Reuters on Friday. OneCarbon wants to generate carbon offsets more cheaply under the UN's clean development mechanism, a strategy made more urgent by falling carbon prices and …
A method is presented that allows for a life cycle assessment (LCA) to provide environmental information on an energy infrastructure system while it evolves. Energy conversion facilities are represented in an agent-based model (ABM) as distinct instances of technologies with owners capable of making decisions based on economic and environmental …
Efforts by Monsanto to introduce genetically modified maize into the European Union hit a fresh roadblock yesterday when member states upheld bans imposed by Austria and Hungary. The European Commission had pushed them to drop the ban on MON810, a variety of genetically modified (GMO) maize produced by Monsanto, the …
This report provides actions for, and conditions to, a Copenhagen climate agreement from the perspective of the EU steel sector. Climate change is one of the greatest challenges for the future of steel industry. As a sector, it is responsible for 3 to 5% of worldwide CO2 emissions. Any emission …
Sujay Mehdudia AMSTERDAM: With a spirit of zero waste tolerance, Amsterdam is making the most of waste. Its garbage has turned out to be a fortune for the City of Amsterdam Waste and Energy Company (AEB) which is tasked with turning refuse into sustainable energy and raw materials. Apart from …
It has been hypothesized that ambient particulate air pollution is able to modify the autonomic nervous control of the heart, measured as heart rate variability (HRV) . Previously we reported heterogeneous associations between particulate matter with aerodynamic diameter < 2.5
The main objective of the present study is to analyse the implications of shifting from free allocation to auctioning of EU ETS allowances (EUAs) for the power sector in the Netherlands. In order to achieve this objective, this study has used three methodological approaches, including theoretical, empirical and model analyses …
Climate change will see a northward movement in Europe so far, potential climate change impacts are studied for broad regions, countries for instance. Researchers of Wageningen University in the Netherlands have presented an alternative approach for predicting climate change impacts in Europe. They studied four environmental zones in the continent. …
Complementary to measurements in Antarctic ice cores, stomatal frequency analysis of leaves of land plants preserved in peat and lake deposits can provide a proxy record of preindustrial atmospheric CO2 concentration. CO2 trends based on leaf remains of Quercus robur (English oak) from the Netherlands support the presence of significant …
THE Netherlands, a small country in Europe with a population smaller than 16 million, is the second largest exporter of agricultural and horticultural produce in the world after the United States. A visit to some of the high-tech centres, greenhouses and dairy farms in the country was an eye-opener for …
