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• Benefits of nitrogen reductions in North Sea shipping exceed costs

  

  Newsitem | 06-06-2012

  Two studies have analysed the costs and benefits of creating a nitrogen emission control area in the North Sea and the English Channel. Such a control area requires new ships to emit 75 per cent less in nitrogen oxide, from 2016 onwards. This is expected ... read more

• Environmental policy needs more decisive action

  

  Newsitem | 15-03-2012

  Based on joint modelling by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development and the PBL Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency the Environmental Outlook to 2050 looks ahead to the year 2050 to ascertain what demographic and economic ... read more

• Worldwide increase in fertiliser surpluses

  

  Newsitem | 07-06-2011

  Fertiliser surpluses are expected to increase, globally, over de next fifty years. This is mainly due to increases in livestock farming, the manure of which is causing ever increasing amounts of nutrients to end up in groundwater and surface waters. ... read more

• Interaction nitrogen deposition with climate change and loss of biodiversity

  Newsitem | 18-03-2010

  The CCE Status Report 2009 demonstrates that effects of nitrogen deposition are interrelated with the change of climate and biodiversity. The report proposes indicators, modelling methodologies and results addressing critical loads, dynamics of ecosystem ... read more

• European nature sensitive to deposition of nitrogen compounds

  

  Newsitem | 13-01-2009

  By 2010, nitrogen deposition will put the sustainability of about 70% of nature in the EU27 at risk. This was calculated by the Coordination Centre for Effects (CCE), using the new European critical loads database. This database provides scientific ... read more

• New webdossier launched today: integral nitrogen

  

  Newsitem | 25-03-2008

  Through the new web dossier “Integral Nitrogen” MNP communicates its international publications and activities related to nitrogen. Nitrogen compounds (reactive nitrogen) are accumulating in the environment on all local and regional scales, causing ... read more

• Empirical critical loads of nitrogen confirm European wide exceedances

  

  Newsitem | 31-01-2008

  The risk of deposition of nutrient nitrogen in Europe, including Natura 2000 areas, is underpinned by a novel compilation of empirical critical loads and uncertainty analysis inspired by the IPCC. Collaboration with the network under the Convention ... read more

• Prize awarded to MNP paper by China Association for Science and Technology

  

  Newsitem | 26-01-2007

  The MNP paper, 'Global and regional surface nitrogen balances in intensive agricultural production systems for the period 1970-2030', has won the 4th Periodical Excellent Paper Award (for the period 2004-2006) of the China Association for Science and ... read more