Towards accepted procedures for calculating international consumption-based carbon accounts

Cross-sectoral integrated assessment of alternatives for climate mitigation in Madagascar

Using the integrated assessment model TIAM-ECN, we analyze how Madagascar’s nationally determined contribution (NDC) to the Paris Agreement can be implemented in both the energy and non-energy sectors. We explore how the country’s national climate goal for 2030 can be reached under two different cost levels for climate change mitigation through...

Concepts Fostering Resource Efficiency A Trade-off Between Ambitions and Viability

Risk analysis and technology assessment in support of technology development Putting responsible innovation in practice in a case study for nanotechnology

Governments invest in “key enabling technologies,” such as nanotechnology, to solve societal challenges and boost the economy. At the same time, governmental agencies demand risk reduction to prohibit any often unknown adverse effects, and industrial parties demand smart approaches to reduce uncertainties. Responsible research and innovation ...

Climate Policy Under Fat-Tailed Risk: An Application of Dice

Uncertainty plays a significant role in evaluating climate policy, and fat-tailed uncertainty may dominate policy advice. Should we make our utmost effort to prevent the arbitrarily large impacts of climate change under deep uncertainty? In order to answer to this question, we propose a new way of investigating the impact of (fat-tailed)...

General wisdom concerning the factors affecting the adoption of cleaner technologies: A survey 1990-2007

Cleaner technologies (CT) have recently received much attention in diverse media and policy agendas. This comes out of the clear role they play in environmental protection and sustainability and the large potential to contribute to economic growth and competitiveness. The realization of both potentials depends on the level diffusion and...

Environmental impacts of products: a detailed review of studies

Environmental effects of economic activities are ultimately driven by consumption, via impacts of the production, use, and waste management phases of products and services ultimately consumed. Integrated product policy (IPP) addressing the life-cycle impacts of products forms an innovative new generation of environmental policy. Yet this policy...

Energie Verslag Nederland 2000

An overview of developments and events in the Netherlands in 2000 inthe field of energy is presented. This edition comprises three parts. In the first part (Chronicle) a chronological overview is given of events in 2000 regarding governmental and energy policy, developments in the sectors natural gas and petroleum exploration, refineries and...

Monitoring energy efficiency indicators in the Netherlands in 2000. Dutch contribution to the project `Cross country comparison on energy efficiency - Phase 6`

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Monitoring energy efficiency indicators in the Netherlands in 1999: Dutch contribution to the project `Cross country comparison on energy efficiency - Phase 5`

The study uses energy efficiency indicators to present and review theenergy efficiency situation in the Netherlands in the last decades. The indicators are calculated along a common methodology, using the ODYSSEE database and national data. Such analysis leads to a better understanding of national developments, because indicators allow for a...

Kyoto mechanisms: the role of joint implementation, the clean development mechanism and emissions trading in reducing greenhouse gas emissions

This study analyses the potential role and impact of the Kyoto Mechanisms- i.e. joint implementation, the clean development mechanism and emissions trading - in meeting the commitments of Annex I countries to limit their greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in the period 2008-2012. It is based on a quantitative analysis that covers all GHGs, all Kyoto...

Energietechnologie in het spanningsveld tussen klimaatbeleid en liberalisering

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CO2-score bedrijven en gemeenten: ontwikkeling methodiek voor het United Air Fund

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Review of the pan-European monitoring programme on forest ecosystems

As part of the Forestry Strategy for Europe, a review of the Europeanscheme for the protection of forests against air pollution (Council Regulation 3528186) was undertaken. This report presents the results of the review, and serves as input for the discussion on the adaptation of the existing regulation. The aim of the study was to review the...

The role of innovators in the introduction of preventive environmental policy in local government

This article discusses the role of innovators in the introduction of 'preventive environmental' policy in local government in the Netherlands. With the help of the configuration theory of Mintzberg and the innovation theory of Rogers a description is given of making this new prevention policy within the governmental organization. This process of...

Tradable green certificates: a new market-based incentive scheme for renewable energy: introduction and analysis

In the coming decades the trend of liberalising energy markets will haveto be combined with ambitious environmental goals within the European Union (EU). Currently prevailing incentive schemes for renewable energy might not be in line with liberalisation of international energy markets. A new policy scheme that has been developed recently is the...

The implications of tradable green certificates for the deployment of renewable electricity: mid-term report

The issue of green certificates has received much attention in the recentyear. In a system of green certificates, producers of renewable electricity receive a certificate for each pre-defined unit of electricity produced. Such a certificate represents the 'greenness', or in more general terms the 'societal value' of the production of electricity...

Vervolg Optiedocument: aanvullEND<br />SETe informatie bij het Optiedocument en reacties van maatschappelijke organisaties ECN-C--99-019 ECN-RIVM--99/1

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