Climate Change: Solution in Sight

Climate Change: Solution in Sight

Is it necessary to drastically reduce the amount of greenhouse gases into the global atmosphere and is it possible to achieve this? The answer on both questions was already in 2000 a wholehearted ‘yes’ according to a Dutch think tank. Below you can find the booklet prepared by the Climate Policy Working Group, which I chaired.

Climate Change: Solution in Sight

Further reads

The Paris goals for mobility: no time for illusions

At the Dutch National Climate Summit in October 2016, I dealt with the question: Are the ambitious Paris goals for mobility achievable? My answer is: YES WE CAN. Thirty years of policy making on transport and environment has revealed which… Read More

Oil Security Europe

Europe imports 88% of the oil it uses, mainly from rather unstable regions. This paper gives an overview of the security and economic risks associated with our oil dependency. Large oil reserves in a country seem to be negatively correlated… Read More

Wishful Thinking in Transport Policy

In this essay I draw the lessons of 40 years of sustainable transport policy. This was my contribution to the international conference 'Keep Moving, Towards Sustainable Mobility' in 2012. What did work and which policies can in hindsight been labelled… Read More

A European aviation charge

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