Critical questions of coalition parties in the Chamber about nitrogen plans
The House of Representatives has many critical questions about the cabinets nitrogen plans. In preparation for a later debate, dozens of questions were asked about the …
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Biden Climate Act narrowly passes Senate, but its not a race runned
Never before has America put so much money into reducing global warming. With the package of climate and energy measures approved by the Senate, the US …
Nitrogen talks start: whats on the table?
The ghost has to go back into the bottle. That is the approach of the first conversation tomorrow morning between the cabinet and farmers’ organizations. …
Remkes sends invitation to farmers: ‘Space for all ideas’
Mediator Johan Remkes has sent out the official invitation letter to farmers and nature organizations to talk to the cabinet in August. He wants to talk …
Cabinet wants to tackle nitrogen problem by pushing hundreds of millions forward
The cabinet will accelerate allocate hundreds of millions of euros with which, among other things, farmers can be bought out so that other farmers and companies …
Rutte speaks to farmers again, ‘concern and anger still predominate’
Prime Minister Rutte has had another discussion with farmers about the cabinets planned nitrogen policy. The conversation took place at the dairy farm of the Bongers …
Lawyers foresee construction stop after summer due to expected nitrogen ruling
The problems with nitrogen can become even bigger after the summer. Lawyers with whom DecceIt spoke fear that the Council of State will come up with …
Nitrogen minister did not expect so much turmoil: ‘Someone has to deliver the bad message’
Minister Christianne van der Wal (Nature and Nitrogen, VVD) is still right behind her nitrogen plans: for the whole of the Netherlands, nitrogen emissions must be 50 …
Cabinet makes coal-fired plants run harder, ‘risk of doing nothing is too great’
The cabinet will let coal plants run harder again in the coming period. According to Minister Jetten for Climate and Energy, the cabinet chooses this to …
D66 wants cabinet to pursue nitrogen plans
D66 will keep the cabinet to the agreements between government parties to drastically reduce nitrogen emissions. For that, the herd will have to be smaller, there …
VVD members want a different course: nitrogen policy cabinet needs to be adjusted
The VVD must adjust the cabinets nitrogen plans. That is the message of a majority of VVD members at a party congress today in Halfweg.
A …
Nitrogen targets map gives more clarity, but its going to be quite a chore
Farmers in the Netherlands have known for years that they need to emit less nitrogen, but today it has finally become clear where the biggest reduction …
Van der Wal: nitrogen message for parts of the Netherlands’ hard ‘, no other choice
Minister Van der Wal for Nature and Nitrogen thinks she should come up with “a rock-solid message” on Friday regarding nitrogen emissions. “That there is very …
Nitrogen emissions should be reduced by 70 to 80 percent in some areas
In some areas in the Netherlands, nitrogen emissions must be reduced by 70 to 80 percent. This concerns, for example, the Gelderland Valley and De Peel in North …
European Court of Auditors: EU proposes climate spending too bright
European money is spent much less often green than the European Commission claims. The European Court of Auditors concludes this in a critical report. According to …
Stripe through Lelystad Airport account, because nitrogen calculations are incorrect
The opening of Lelystad Airport has become even further out of sight. For the time being, the airport does not receive a nature permit from Minister …
“Governments mess around with nitrogen rights at the expense of nature”
Governments regularly use nitrogen rights of closed or stopped companies to allow construction projects to continue. That leads to nature deteriorating, and presumably it is not …
Many responses to report Tata, ‘independent body must measures emissions’
The village council of Wijk aan Zee wants Tata Steels emissions to be measured from now on by an independent government agency. The RIVM sees much …
Three weeks, ministry must disclose address details nitrogen ejectors
Within three weeks, the Ministry of Agriculture must disclose the address details of some 3500 companies that were allowed to emit nitrogen without a licence between 2015 and 2019. …
Tata Steel permits tightened: air should be cleaner faster
Tata Steel’s permits for the emission of harmful substances are tightened and extra checks will be made for those emissions. In this way, the Rijk …
Brussels bill to counter deforestation with ban on coffee and palm oil
Coffee, palm oil, wood or food products may no longer be imported from areas where there is deforestation. According to a European Commission bill, traders should …
Climate summit responses: from ‘important signal’ to ‘faliekant fails’
After two weeks of negotiations by nearly 200 countries, the final declaration was hammered at the Glasgow climate summit last night. According to President Sharma, the goal …
Malawi: no blame for climate crisis, big victim
In the countryside in Malawi, farmer Doma Alie stands in his field on a kind of stepmachine. It pumps groundwater by making kicking movements. After a …
Poor countries want to see money, discussion overshadows climate summit
Negotiations at the UN climate conference in Glasgow are overshadowed by complicated discussions about money. The fact that wealthy countries have failed to fulfilled their previous …