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

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

Car mobility decreases in the Netherlands

Official data show that the average Dutch inhabitant rides now 4% less in cars, than in 2005. See the solid red line in the graph. This reflects the sum of kilometers as driver and passenger. Car traffic has increased by… Read More

A European aviation charge

In my book ‘New Mobility – Beyond the car era’ I predict that people in Western-Europe will in 2015 fly on average more kilometres than they travel by car. The strong growth in aviation causes an unwanted increase in global… 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

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