PBL hosts a number of thematic subsites. These websites are stand-alone sections of the PBL website, presenting information on scientific theme(s) or models, hosted at PBL. For information on policy related subject we refer to the dossiers.

EDGAR

The EDGAR information system is a joint project of the European Commission Joint Research Centre (JRC-IES, Ispra, Italy) and the Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency (PBL) and stores global emission inventories of greenhouse gases and air pollutants from anthropogenic sources including halocarbons and aerosols both on a per country and region basis as well as on a grid.

FAIR

The FAIR model is a tool to analyze environmental and costs implications of climate regimes. The policy decision-support-tool FAIR aims to assess the environmental and abatement costs implications of climate regimes for differentiation of future commitments. The model links long-term climate targets and global reduction objectives with regional emissions allowances and abatement costs, accounting for the used Kyoto Mechanisms.

GEIA

GEIA is the Global Emissions Inventory Activity. At the PBL-GEIA website the GEIA inventories on NMVOC Compound Groups, Ammonia (NH3) and Carbon Monoxide (CO) reside. These datasets have been constructed in line with the corresponding EDGAR inventories, which have been compiled by TNO and PBL.

GISMO

The Global Integrated Sustainability MOdel (GISMO) is a modelling framework to analyse developments in Quality of Life in relation to social, economic and environmental changes (the three sustainability domains: People-Planet-Profit). The GISMO model enables analysis of the effects of specific policies on human development, such as poverty, health and education, and the interlinkage with the environment.

Guidance for Uncertainty Assesment and Communication

The PBL Guidance for Uncertainty Assessment and Communication offers assistance to employees of the Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency (PBL) in mapping and communicating uncertainties in environmental and nature assessments. In the Guidance special attention is paid to the following parts of assessments: problem framing, involvement of stakeholders, selection of indicators, appraisal of knowledge base, mapping and assessment of relevant uncertainties and reporting of uncertainty information.

HYDE

The History Database of the Global Environment (HYDE) presents not only (gridded) time series for the last 300 years of population and land use, but also various other indicators such as GDP, Value Added, Livestock, Private Consumption, GHG emissions, and Industrial production data.

IMAGE

IMAGE is an ecological-environmental framework that simulates the environmental consequences of human activities worldwide. It represents interactions between society, the biosphere and the climate system to assess sustainability issues like climate change, biodiversity and human well-being. The objective of the version of IMAGE described here (version 2.4 released in 2006) is to explore the long-term dynamics of global change as the result of interacting demographic, technological, economic, social, cultural and political factors.

LUMOS

The Land Use MOdeling System (LUMOS) is a toolbox for land use modeling, with the Land Use Scanner and the Environment Explorer as its main components.

The LUMOS consortium is a partnership of governmental institutes, universities and commercial R&D parties, that conduct research on land use change and land use and spatial modeling. These partners have a long history of cooperation that has now been formalized in the consortium, which is chaired by The Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency (PBL).

Phoenix

PHOENIX plus provides a population user support system to explore, develop and analyze different demographic scenarios at various geographical aggregation levels (global, regional, national and grid-cells).

WAB

PBL organizes for the Netherlands Ministry of Housing, Spatial Planning and the Environment (VROM) the Scientific Assessment and Policy Analysis programme (WAB). The programme gathers relevant scientific information on climate change and evaluates this information for policy analysis and decision-making. Furthermore WAB analyses intentions and conclusions in the framework of international climate change negotiations on there implications.