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The Netherlands pursues a successful environmental policy that is resulting in cleaner rivers, reduction in carbon emissions, reduction in waste steams, and the cleanup of contaminated soil. There are still more challenges including improving air quality, climate change, and the depletion of natural resources and biodiversity.
National environmental policy is directed to contributing to sustainable economic development and to the health and safety of people by maintaining and improving the quality of the environment.
The Government is committed to sustainable management of the environment in the Netherlands and in the wider EU and global context.
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Dutch support for world’s crop gene banks
The Netherlands has contributed 2.5 million USD to the Global Crop Diversity Trust, which is responsible for safeguarding unique ...
Knapen speaks to NGOs about deforestation in Kalimantan
Ben Knapen, the Minister for European Affairs and International Cooperation, has addressed representatives of Indonesian NGOs ...
11 November – Sustainability Day 2010
This Thursday, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs will be marking Sustainability Day 2010. Sustainable operational management is a ...
Electrically powered vehicles are booming
The Dutch approach to electric cars works. Good co-operation between private and public parties has resulted in major first steps ...
Dutch business community goes electric in Shanghai
Today, Dutch Transport Minister Eurlings and Peter Bakker, CEO of TNT, revealed the first fully electrically powered car for the ...
Documents and publications
Safety and care first in nuclear energy
Lessons from events in Japan will play a part in determining the criteria for a new nuclear energy power station in the ...
Dutch support for world’s crop gene banks
The Netherlands has contributed 2.5 million USD to the Global Crop Diversity Trust, which is responsible for safeguarding unique ...
Lessons learnt from recent events in Japan for nuclear energy policy and procedures for new nuclear power plants
Letter by minister Verhagen (Economic Affairs, Agriculture and Innovation) to te parliament about lessons learnt from recent ...
Renewable energy in the Netherlands
In 2011 the Netherlands will gear its renewable energy policy to meeting the binding EU target of 14 percent renewable energy use ...
80 countries underline importance ‘The Hague Roadmap for Action’
Ministers from 80 countries underlined the importance of the "The Hague Roadmap for Action" at It’s Down 2 Earth, the ...
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