When a heavy storm hit in October, residents of the floating community of Schoonschip in Amsterdam had little doubt they could ride it out. They tied up their bikes and outdoor benches, checked in with neighbours to ensure everyone had enough food and water, and hunkered down as their neighborhood slid up and down its steel foundational pillars, rising along with the water and descending to its original position after the rain subsided.
"We feel safer in a storm because we are floating," says Siti Boelen, a Dutch television producer who moved into Schoonschip two years ago. "I think it's kind of strange that building on water is not a priority worldwide."
As sea levels rise and supercharged storms cause waters to swell, floating neighbourhoods offer an experiment in flood defence that could allow coastal communities to better withstand climate change. In the land-scarce but densely populated Netherlands, demand for such homes is growing. And, as more people look to build on the water there, officials are working to update zoning laws to make the construction of floating homes easier.
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February 7, 2022
The Netherlands: Around 90% of newly built homes erected last year in the Netherlands are gas-free – by Emiliano Bellini
Netbeheer Nederland, the Dutch association of national and regional power network operators, has revealed that approximately 90.1% of new buildings erected last year are not connected to the gas network in the service areas of grid operators Liander, Enexis Netbeheer and Stedin.
A year earlier, this percentage had reached around 87%. “The number of applications to disconnect existing homes from natural gas is also increasing,” the organization said. “For example, households are switching to all-electric as a sustainable alternative.”
Netbeheer Nederland specified that the 10% of new homes built last year that were still linked to the gas grid were granted this possibility as their environmental permit was filed before 1 July 2018. “In addition, municipalities still have the option of granting an exemption for new construction projects after 1 July 2018, for example when solutions other than natural gas are technically impossible,” it added.
Read more at: Around 90% of newly built homes erected last year in the Netherlands are gas-free – pv magazine International
A year earlier, this percentage had reached around 87%. “The number of applications to disconnect existing homes from natural gas is also increasing,” the organization said. “For example, households are switching to all-electric as a sustainable alternative.”
Netbeheer Nederland specified that the 10% of new homes built last year that were still linked to the gas grid were granted this possibility as their environmental permit was filed before 1 July 2018. “In addition, municipalities still have the option of granting an exemption for new construction projects after 1 July 2018, for example when solutions other than natural gas are technically impossible,” it added.
Read more at: Around 90% of newly built homes erected last year in the Netherlands are gas-free – pv magazine International
February 2, 2022
The Netherlands: How the Dutch Built the Netherlands to Protect it from Flooding
through the building of dikes, drainage canals, and pumping stations. Today, there are more than 3,000 polders throughout the nation. This wasn't enough though, and in 1916, they suffered from severe flooding.
That's when the Dutch decided to work on the Afsluitdijk to protect low-lying areas and the wall off the Zuiderzee from the sea. The seawall was one of the largest engineering feats of its time, spanning 20 mi (32 km) and a final height of 23 ft (7 m) above sea level. More impressive was the fact that it was topped off by sand and clay, and held together by grass.
Read more at: How the Dutch Built the Netherlands to Protect it from Flooding
That's when the Dutch decided to work on the Afsluitdijk to protect low-lying areas and the wall off the Zuiderzee from the sea. The seawall was one of the largest engineering feats of its time, spanning 20 mi (32 km) and a final height of 23 ft (7 m) above sea level. More impressive was the fact that it was topped off by sand and clay, and held together by grass.
Read more at: How the Dutch Built the Netherlands to Protect it from Flooding
November 1, 2021
Costa Rica: A climate success story - by Laurence Cuvillier and Matthieu Comin
In the space of just a few years, the small Central American nation of Costa Rica has become a global laboratory for decarbonisation. Costa Rica is the world's only tropical country that has managed to reverse the process of deforestation: forests now cover more than half its surface. It’s also one of the few countries to get almost all its electricity (99 percent) from renewable sources. Costa Rica's inspiring and bold example reflects badly on major world powers, which have considerably more resources available to achieve their climate goals.
Costa Rica abolished its army back in 1948, and 99 percent of its energy is renewable. The small country is an exception in Latin America. Costa Rican President Carlos Alvarado Quesada sat down for an exclusive interview with FRANCE 24. Ahead of November's COP26 conference in Glasgow, he laid out several concrete proposals to fight climate change and sounded the alarm, saying: "The biggest challenge of this generation is decarbonisation and fighting climate change."
Read more at: Costa Rica: A climate success story - Reporters
Costa Rica abolished its army back in 1948, and 99 percent of its energy is renewable. The small country is an exception in Latin America. Costa Rican President Carlos Alvarado Quesada sat down for an exclusive interview with FRANCE 24. Ahead of November's COP26 conference in Glasgow, he laid out several concrete proposals to fight climate change and sounded the alarm, saying: "The biggest challenge of this generation is decarbonisation and fighting climate change."
Read more at: Costa Rica: A climate success story - Reporters
September 28, 2021
The Netherlands - Global Warmimg: IMF says Dutch economy is recovering, but more needed in climate change fight
The strong economic recovery of the Netherlands justifies the Cabinet's decision to stop the massive coronavirus economic support packages. But the continuing direction of the coronavirus pandemic remains "uncertain" and politicians in The Hague will have to remain ready to reactivate support programs such as the NOW scheme if necessary, according to researchers from the International Monetary Fund (IMF).
Read more at: IMF says Dutch economy is recovering, but more needed in climate change fight | NL Times
Read more at: IMF says Dutch economy is recovering, but more needed in climate change fight | NL Times
September 14, 2021
Paris to Berlin in an hour: Welcome to the future of high-speed rail travel in Europe
Picture this: the year is 2045. You’re standing on a platform in Berlin awaiting a sleek Hyperloop pod that will glide into the station to a noiseless halt and then deposit you in Paris an hour later, ready for your morning meeting.
In the afternoon, you’ll take another southbound pod on a leisurely trip to Barcelona for the weekend, a journey that will take no more than 90 minutes.
The speed and ease is no longer a surprise to you because in the last quarter-century, almost all travel throughout Europe has shifted from the skies to the ground.
Read more at: Paris to Berlin in an hour: Welcome to the future of high-speed rail travel in Europe | Euronews
In the afternoon, you’ll take another southbound pod on a leisurely trip to Barcelona for the weekend, a journey that will take no more than 90 minutes.
The speed and ease is no longer a surprise to you because in the last quarter-century, almost all travel throughout Europe has shifted from the skies to the ground.
Read more at: Paris to Berlin in an hour: Welcome to the future of high-speed rail travel in Europe | Euronews
September 6, 2021
The Netherlands: Climate change poses serious health risk for people in the Netherlands, says expert
The Dutch medicine journal NTvG joined 200 other medical journals worldwide in their call for world leaders to intensify their effort in combating climate change, NOS reported.
Climate change poses an immediate risk for public health, the experts said. “Climate change and the decline in biodiversity is a much larger problem than the pandemic”, NTvG editor-in-chief Olde Rikkert told NOS Radio 1 Journaal. “While you do have a vaccine for the coronavirus, you don’t have that for climate change and biodiversity.”
The experts said they believe the earth is steering towards a two degrees Celsius temperature increase.
Read more at: Climate change poses serious health risk for people in the Netherlands, says expert | NL Times
Climate change poses an immediate risk for public health, the experts said. “Climate change and the decline in biodiversity is a much larger problem than the pandemic”, NTvG editor-in-chief Olde Rikkert told NOS Radio 1 Journaal. “While you do have a vaccine for the coronavirus, you don’t have that for climate change and biodiversity.”
The experts said they believe the earth is steering towards a two degrees Celsius temperature increase.
Read more at: Climate change poses serious health risk for people in the Netherlands, says expert | NL Times
August 9, 2021
Global warming: The Netherlands may face higher sea level rises than global average
According to a newly released report from the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the rise of the global sea level will increase over the coming decades and centuries — this is hardly news.
However, the report also highlights that in the Netherlands, 50-90% of sea-level rise will be caused by meltwater from Antarctica. The Antarctic ice sheet is sensitive to warming ocean water and will melt at an accelerated pace if global warming is too high.
Read more at: The Netherlands may face higher sea level rises than global average – DutchReview
However, the report also highlights that in the Netherlands, 50-90% of sea-level rise will be caused by meltwater from Antarctica. The Antarctic ice sheet is sensitive to warming ocean water and will melt at an accelerated pace if global warming is too high.
Read more at: The Netherlands may face higher sea level rises than global average – DutchReview
December 29, 2020
Global Warming: 'Tip of the iceberg': is our destruction of nature responsible for Covid-19?
Only a decade or two ago it was widely thought that tropical forests and intact natural environments teeming with exotic wildlife threatened humans by harbouring the viruses and pathogens that lead to new diseases in humans such as Ebola, HIV and dengue.
But a number of researchers today think that it is actually humanity’s destruction of biodiversity that creates the conditions for new viruses and diseases such as Covid-19, the viral disease that emerged in China in December 2019, to arise – with profound health and economic impacts in rich and poor countries alike. In fact, a new discipline, planetary health, is emerging that focuses on the increasingly visible connections between the wellbeing of humans, other living things and entire ecosystems.
Read more at: 'Tip of the iceberg': is our destruction of nature responsible for Covid-19? | Environment | The Guardian
But a number of researchers today think that it is actually humanity’s destruction of biodiversity that creates the conditions for new viruses and diseases such as Covid-19, the viral disease that emerged in China in December 2019, to arise – with profound health and economic impacts in rich and poor countries alike. In fact, a new discipline, planetary health, is emerging that focuses on the increasingly visible connections between the wellbeing of humans, other living things and entire ecosystems.
Read more at: 'Tip of the iceberg': is our destruction of nature responsible for Covid-19? | Environment | The Guardian
November 17, 2020
The Netherlands: 14 degrees in November?: Record-breaking temperatures in the Netherlands
Over the weekend, cities across the Netherlands experienced exceptionally high temperatures for this time of year. Amsterdam recorded temperatures of 14 degrees - significantly higher than the November average of around 9 degrees. Since the start of the month, a number of weather records have been broken: Monday was the warmest November 9 ever recorded, and November 2 reached temperatures above 20 degrees, making it the warmest November day ever.
Read more at: 14 degrees in November?: Record-breaking temperatures in the Netherlands
Read more at: 14 degrees in November?: Record-breaking temperatures in the Netherlands
April 28, 2020
Meteorologists say 2020 on course to be hottest year since records began
This year is on course to be the world’s hottest since measurements
began, according to meteorologists, who estimate there is a 50% to 75%
chance that 2020 will break the record set four years ago.
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Meteorologists say 2020 on course to be hottest
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Meteorologists say 2020 on course to be hottest
January 16, 2020
The Netherlands - tourism: Keukenhof plants more bulbs to tackle unpredictable temperatures
Keukenhof plants more bulbs to tackle unpredictable temperatures
Read more at:
https://www.dutchnews.nl/news/2020/01/keukenhof-plants-more-bulbs-to-tackle-unpredictable-temperatures/
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https://www.dutchnews.nl/news/2020/01/keukenhof-plants-more-bulbs-to-tackle-unpredictable-temperatures/
December 18, 2019
The Netherlands: Global warming:When will the Netherlands disappear?
The low-lying country has centuries of experience managing water. Now climate change is threatening to flood it completely.
Global warming: do something about it, demonstrate in the street and in your workplace. Make your Government understand you are not accepting their "business as usual" reactions anymore.
Read more at:
https://www.scmp.com/news/world/europe/article/3042428/when-will-netherlands-disappear
Global warming: do something about it, demonstrate in the street and in your workplace. Make your Government understand you are not accepting their "business as usual" reactions anymore.
Read more at:
https://www.scmp.com/news/world/europe/article/3042428/when-will-netherlands-disappear
December 5, 2019
The Netherlands-USA Relations - Global Warming - Tampa Teams Up With Netherlands to Deal With Climate Change - by Dalia Dangerfield
The Bay Area and the Netherlands are teaming up to raise awareness on climate change.
"When you're riding around the country, it looks like any other country, but when you know what you're looking at, you're like 'wow that's a neat project," Bennett said.
The Netherlands is very vulnerable to floods and storm surge. Their answer includes using natural resources as a defense. Something Bennett agrees with.
"Lets use nature as much as possible instead of putting more infrastructure in place," Bennett said.
Read more at: Tampa Teams Up With Netherlands to Deal With Climate Change
- Tampa working with Netherlands on climate change
- Tampa Chief of Staff John Bennett toured Netherlands to get ideas
- Tampa to develop action plan with ideas
"When you're riding around the country, it looks like any other country, but when you know what you're looking at, you're like 'wow that's a neat project," Bennett said.
The Netherlands is very vulnerable to floods and storm surge. Their answer includes using natural resources as a defense. Something Bennett agrees with.
"Lets use nature as much as possible instead of putting more infrastructure in place," Bennett said.
Read more at: Tampa Teams Up With Netherlands to Deal With Climate Change
December 3, 2019
Global Warming:Why we strike again – by Greta Thunberg, Luisa Neubauer and Angela Valenzuela
Facing grim science and growing activism, world leaders are increasingly
recognising the urgency of the climate crisis. Yet nothing has been
done.
Read more at
https://www.socialeurope.eu/why-we-strike-again
Read more at
https://www.socialeurope.eu/why-we-strike-again
November 6, 2019
Climate crisis: 11,000 scientists warn of ‘untold suffering’ - as Trump now formally takes the US out of the climate accord
Statement sets out ‘vital signs’ as indicators of magnitude of the climate emergency.
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https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/nov/05/climate-crisis-11000-scientists-warn-of-untold-suffering?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Add_to_Firefox
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https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/nov/05/climate-crisis-11000-scientists-warn-of-untold-suffering?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Add_to_Firefox
September 20, 2019
Germany - Global warming: Merkel's Cabinet agrees 'climate packet,' environmentalists say it's paltry
Merkel's Cabinet agrees 'climate packet,' environmentalists say it's paltry
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August 18, 2019
Climate Change: No, Climate Change Will Not End the World in 12 Years - by Sheril Kirshenbaum
Climate scientists, biologists, engineers and others with expertise
have been speaking and writing about our changing planet for a long
time. My own work has focused on how we'll figure out a way to come to
terms with billions more people, limited resources and more extreme
extremes. Droughts will be worse. Floods more severe. Storms
increasingly intense.
I've often felt like a modern Cassandra, writing and speaking about the dramatic and unprecedented planetary shifts taking place due to short-sighted policy choices. Deforestation, the burning of fossil fuels, and the ways we use water and produce food inevitably do take a toll on the environment, our health and security. As a marine scientist, I observed firsthand how the pH of oceans has been changing along urban coasts in a process called acidification due to excess emissions.
The evidence of climate change has been all around us for a long time. Protecting people and Earth's co-inhabitants from its most devastating impacts will require institutional reckoning and action.
Doomsday scenarios may generate clicks and sell advertisements, but they always fail to convey that science is nuanced. Arbitrary "time left to apocalypse" predictions are not evidence based and the story of climate change doesn't fit neatly into brief bullet points competing for your attention in today's saturated media environment. Stoking panic and fear offers a false narrative that can overwhelm readers, leading to inaction and hopelessness.
When I worked on Capitol Hill 13 years ago, I faced a cacophony of staffers and lawmakers choosing inaction on the assumption that climate change wasn't real. Today many of the same people point to the dire predictions dominating the news and shrug off better policies with the excuse that the world is ending anyway.
If history teaches us anything, it's that humans have a penchant for anticipating our End Times. Ancient mythologies from cultures all around the world describe catastrophic floods and religious cults continue to recruit followers with predictions of death by comet or solar flare.
Earth isn't ending in 12 years. It didn't end at Y2K or when the Mayan calendar predicted the collapse of civilization in 2012.
Earth, as a whole, will be okay—for at least another few billion years. What's less settled is how humans and the rest of biodiversity on the planet will fare in the decades and centuries to come. That's up to us and I hope we work to highlight hope over Armageddon.
The world will end one day, but not today. And not tomorrow. And not in 2030. Earth will continue to change, but we're not necessarily doomed. Yet.
Read more at: No, Climate Change Will Not End the World in 12 Years - Scientific American Blog Network
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I've often felt like a modern Cassandra, writing and speaking about the dramatic and unprecedented planetary shifts taking place due to short-sighted policy choices. Deforestation, the burning of fossil fuels, and the ways we use water and produce food inevitably do take a toll on the environment, our health and security. As a marine scientist, I observed firsthand how the pH of oceans has been changing along urban coasts in a process called acidification due to excess emissions.
The evidence of climate change has been all around us for a long time. Protecting people and Earth's co-inhabitants from its most devastating impacts will require institutional reckoning and action.
Doomsday scenarios may generate clicks and sell advertisements, but they always fail to convey that science is nuanced. Arbitrary "time left to apocalypse" predictions are not evidence based and the story of climate change doesn't fit neatly into brief bullet points competing for your attention in today's saturated media environment. Stoking panic and fear offers a false narrative that can overwhelm readers, leading to inaction and hopelessness.
When I worked on Capitol Hill 13 years ago, I faced a cacophony of staffers and lawmakers choosing inaction on the assumption that climate change wasn't real. Today many of the same people point to the dire predictions dominating the news and shrug off better policies with the excuse that the world is ending anyway.
If history teaches us anything, it's that humans have a penchant for anticipating our End Times. Ancient mythologies from cultures all around the world describe catastrophic floods and religious cults continue to recruit followers with predictions of death by comet or solar flare.
Earth isn't ending in 12 years. It didn't end at Y2K or when the Mayan calendar predicted the collapse of civilization in 2012.
Earth, as a whole, will be okay—for at least another few billion years. What's less settled is how humans and the rest of biodiversity on the planet will fare in the decades and centuries to come. That's up to us and I hope we work to highlight hope over Armageddon.
The world will end one day, but not today. And not tomorrow. And not in 2030. Earth will continue to change, but we're not necessarily doomed. Yet.
Read more at: No, Climate Change Will Not End the World in 12 Years - Scientific American Blog Network
For additional information, including advertising rates - e-mail:Freeplanet@protonmail.com
March 29, 2019
Global warming: Mosquito spread diseases due to climate change increasing
Mosquito-spread diseases may endanger millions in new places due to climate change
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February 7, 2019
Global Warming - The Netherlands and Belgium: Thousands of students join climate protests in the Netherlands - by Michael Staines
At least 10,000 students have skipped class in the
Netherlands to join a major protest demanding greater action on climate
change.
It comes as thousands of teenagers in Belgium skipped school for the fourth Thursday in a row to join the protests.
Similar marches have been held in Sweden, Germany and Switzerland.
It comes as scientists yesterday confirmed that the last five years have been the warmest on record.
Organisers of this afternoon's protest in The Hague in the Netherlands said they were aiming to send a wake-up call to politicians.
It comes after the Dutch Environmental Assessment Agency said the national target of reducing greenhouse gas emissions by 25% by next year - when compared to 1990 levels - was out of reach.
Organizers say the movement is gathering momentum with a global protest scheduled for March
Read more: Thousands of students join climate protests in the
It comes as thousands of teenagers in Belgium skipped school for the fourth Thursday in a row to join the protests.
Similar marches have been held in Sweden, Germany and Switzerland.
It comes as scientists yesterday confirmed that the last five years have been the warmest on record.
Organisers of this afternoon's protest in The Hague in the Netherlands said they were aiming to send a wake-up call to politicians.
It comes after the Dutch Environmental Assessment Agency said the national target of reducing greenhouse gas emissions by 25% by next year - when compared to 1990 levels - was out of reach.
Feeling proud: an estimated 10,000 students marching through The Hague to protest climate change. #klimaatspijbelaars #KlimaatSpijbelen pic.twitter.com/kH6lcyxtdX
Organizers say the movement is gathering momentum with a global protest scheduled for March
Read more: Thousands of students join climate protests in the
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