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Very high oil prices together with a worldwide financial crisis have caused a halving of the annual increase in global emissions of carbon dioxide (CO2) from fossil fuel consumption and cement...

By 2050, the effect of hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs) on global warming will be as large as that of 14% of global CO2 emissions, in business-as-usual scenarios. HFCs are strong greenhouse gases, and are...

Eight global assessments and outlooks in the field of environment and sustainable development, published in the last two years (2007-2008), have painted a concurrent picture of the world’s major...

New data show that global man-made greenhouse gas emissions increased 15% between 2000 and 2005, representing a sharp jump in the rate of emissions growth, which was 3% for the period 1990-1995 and 6%...

A stringent global climate policy will lead to considerable improvements in local air quality and consequently improves health. Measures to reduce emissions of greenhouse gases to 50% of 2005 levels...

A stringent global climate policy will lead to considerable improvements in local air quality and consequently improves health. Measures to reduce emissions of greenhouse gases to 50% of 2005 levels...

Measurements have shown that the spatial variability of urban background concentrations of particulate matter (PM) is about the same as the estimated measurement accuracy. The differences are 10% or...

With unchanged policies, terrestrial biodiversity will decrease between 2000 to 2050 at the same pace as during the last century. This was calculated with the GLOBIO3 model, developed by PBL in...

Large-scale use of electric vehicles could drastically reduce CO2 emissions, especially if more electricity would be generated by sustainable energy. Moreover, using electric vehicles would diminish...