Positive Energy Districts (PEDs) are potential high-impact climate change mitigation actions towards low carbon or even climate neutral cities. This implies that the energy performance and greenhouse gas emissions of PEDs need to be assessed. To this end, an accounting methodology, metrics, supporting …

In het klimaatakkoord zult u tevergeefs zoeken naar een plan de luchtvaart klimaatvriendelijker te maken. Voor Martien Visser alle reden om de luchtvaartsector in het Klimaatakkoord 2.0 op te nemen en als Nederland bij te dragen aan de ontwikkeling van schone vliegtuigen.

Drinking water utilities are responsible for providing safe drinking water. As water directly impacts public health, water utilities follow stringent water treatment standards and processes. However to keep pace with the dynamic environment and tackle challenges such as water stress, water pollution, …

Martien Visser propageert in zijn column een herbezinning op de rol van overheidsbedrijven in de energietransitie. Niet marktfalen, maar benutting van hun competenties zou de drijfveer moeten zijn hen in te schakelen.

Nederland heeft geen goed track record als het aankomt op het realiseren van de klimaatdoelen, stelt Martien Visser. CCS kan wel eens de reddende engel blijken.

This project sought to identify the most visible Twitter users before and after one of the most critical events in recent climate politics: President Trump declaring his intent on 01/06/17 to withdraw from the Paris Agreement. The lead-up to, and aftermath of, the much-anticipated announcement brought …

The threat of climate change and the Paris agreement to limit global temperature rise to well below 2?C and to pursue efforts to limit it to 1.5?C has stimulated research on and broad commitment to community energy. We investigate this research. We assess how nine different approaches study community …

Meeting the Paris Climate Agreement goals for renewable energy, sea level rise protection and nature preservation require innovative multifunctional solutions in the Netherlands. As part of the Delta21 project, which looks at creating an energy storing reservoir and an energy producing tidal power plant …

The hospitality industry contributes significantly to global climate change through its high resource consumption and emissions due to travel. As public pressure for hotels to develop sustainability initiatives to mitigate their footprint grows, a lack of understanding of green behavior and consumption …

The government of Ukraine has adopted the Renewable Energy Directive (RED) with clear goals and a roadmap to facilitate its energy transition towards renewable sources. This is done because of both climate concerns as well as reasons related to Ukraine’s foreign policy which led the government to decide …