The article evaluates the effectiveness of implementing a Dutch certifiable scheme for carbon reporting. This CO2 Performance Ladder is described as a energy management schemes and focuses on CO2 emission reduction in the construction industry sector. A literature study was combined with interviews.
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Woningcorporaties staan aan de voet van een belangrijke fase in de verduurzaming van de woningvoorraad. Er moeten ingrijpende maatregelen doorgevoerd om de woningvoorraad CO2-neutraal te maken. Maar welke beleidskeuzes en -instrumenten zijn ervoor nodig om deze transitie te versoepelen? Dat onderzocht het Lectoraat Energy in Transition van de Haagse Hogeschool in het onderzoek ‘gezamenlijk naar een CO2-neutrale woningvoorraad’.
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The aim of this research is to assess the potential impact of the CO2 Performance Ladder on CO2 emission reduction. The CO2 Performance Ladder is a new green procurement scheme that has been adopted by several public authorities in the Netherlands; it is a staged certification scheme for energy and CO2 management. The achieved certification level gives companies a certain competitive advantage in contract awarding procedures. While the scheme has been widely adopted by companies in the construction industry, other types of companies in the supply chain of the commissioning parties also participate. Currently, more than 190 companies participate in the scheme. The aggregate CO2 emissions covered by the scheme are around 1.7 Mtonnes, which corresponds to almost 1 % of national greenhouse gas emissions in the Netherlands. Since the introduction of the scheme the total CO2 emissions have decreased substantially. Nevertheless, these emission reductions should be interpreted with caution since emission reductions are dominated by a few companies and are affected to a large extent by economic activity. Companies participating in the scheme have set different types of CO2 emission reduction targets with varying ambition levels. The projected impact of these targets on CO2 emissions is in the range of a 0.5 %-1.3 % absolute emission reduction per year, with a most likely value of 1.1 %. The CO2 Performance Ladder can therefore make a substantial contribution to achieving the CO2 emission reductions for non-ETS sectors in the Netherlands up to 2020.
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Met CO2-certficaten wordt een boer beloond voor het voorkomen van CO2-uitstoot. Het zijn certificaten die, na strikte controle, worden uitgeven en kunnen worden verkocht aan bedrijven of overheden. In dit onderzoek is samen met betrokken organisaties gekeken hoe Friese burgers daar een rol in kunnen spelen.De Factsheet is onderdeel van het CoE Groenproject 'Natuurinclusief gedrag van burgers'.
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Densely populated areas are major sources of air, soil and water pollution. Agriculture, manufacturing, consumer households and road traffic all have their share. This is particularly true for the country featured in this paper: the Netherlands. Continuous pollution of the air and soil manifests itself as acification, decalcification and eutrofication. Biodiversity becomes lower and lower in nature areas. Biological farms are also under threat. In case of mobility, local air pollution may have a huge health impact. Effective policy is called for, after high courts blocked construction projects, because of foreseen building- and transport-related NOx emissions. EU law makers are after Dutch governments, because these favoured economics and politics over environmental and liveability concerns. But, people in the Netherlands are strongly divided. The latest provincial elections were dominated by environmental concerns, next to many socio-economic issues. NOx and CO2 emissions by passenger cars are in focus. Technical means and increasing fuel economy norms strongly reduced NOx emissions to a still too high level. A larger number of cars neutralized a technological reduction of CO2 emissions. The question is: What would be the impact of a drastic mandatory reduction in CO2, NOx, and PM10 emissions on car ownership and use in the Netherlands? The authors used literature, scenario analysis and simulation modelling to answer this question. Electric mobility could remove these emissions. Its full impact will only be achieved if the grid-mix, which is still dominated by fossil fuels, becomes green(er), which is a gradual, long-term, process. EVs compete with other consumers of electricity, as many other activities, such as heating, are also electrifying. With the current grid-mix, it is inevitable that the number of km per vehicle per year is reduced to reach the scenario targets (−25% resp. −50% CO2 emissions by cars). This calls for an individual mobility budget per car user.
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Column over dat ten principale de energiebelasting per ton CO2 voor iedereen gelijk zou moeten zijn
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De CO2-emissie door productie van elektriciteit daalt flink. Verdere verlaging is gewenst, maar dan moeten we wél aan de slag
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Eurocommissaris Timmermans wil economische groei en tegelijk het grondstoffengebruik en de CO2-uitstoot verminderen. Maar het samengaan van die twee is een mythe.
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Nederland kent een complex stelsel van belastingen op verschillende vormen van energie. Verschillende gebruikers betalen verschillende tarieven; grootverbruikers veel minder dan kleintjes. Dat voelt niet goed. En dus vindt bijna iedereen dat er in plaats daarvan een generieke CO2-belasting moet komen, die niet afhangt van de vorm of de hoeveelheid energie, of het type energiegebruiker.
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Acties om onze CO2 uitstoot drastisch te verlagen kunnen hand in hand gaan met het vergroten van de inclusiviteit van onze samenleving, zo blijkt uit het eind september verschenen TNO-rapport ‘De feiten over energiearmoede in Nederland: Inzicht op nationaal en lokaal niveau’. Zowel energiedeskundigen als professionals in het sociaal domein doen er goed aan om dit rapport tot zich te nemen.
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