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    Expected beginning of 2024
    in preparation
    Aerial photo of Deventer Photograph: Mediatheek Rijksoverheid / Rob Poelenjee

    Juridification in the living environment

    How can public authorities utilise the trend towards juridification so as to contribute to achieving sustainability policy goals?
    Expected autumn 2023
    in preparation
    Electrical and electronic waste recycling company, Eindhoven Photo: ANP / Lex van Lieshout

    From throw-away society to sustainable, circular production and consumption

    How can the Netherlands, with the help of European regulations, make the transition from throw-away society to a society that produces and uses sustainable, circular consumer goods?
    Expected beginning of 2024
    in preparation
    Village at sea with the sun on the skyline Photo: Nationale Beeldbank / Nataraj

    Climate adaptation and spatial planning

    What spatial planning policies are needed to best prepare the Netherlands for the impacts of climate change, both in the short and longer term?
    11 May 2023
    news
    advisory report "Good Water, Good Policy" presented to Mark Harbers Minister of Infrastructure and Water Management On 11 May 2023, Minister of Infrastructure and Water Management Mark Harbers took receipt of the advisory letter “Good Water, Good Policy”. L to R: Karin Sluis (Rli Council member and committee chair), Jan Jaap de Graeff (Rli chair), Mark Harbers and Niels Koeman (Rli Council member). Photo: Fred Ernst

    Rli publishes advisory report "Good Water, Good Policy"

    In its advisory report "Good Water, Good Policy", presented to Mark Harbers, Minister of Infrastructure and Water Management on 11 May 2023, the Rli concludes that current and planned policies to achieve healthy water systems and their implementation are inadequate ...
    11 May 2023
    publication
    Children playing in and around the water, with newly built houses in the background Photo: Tineke Dijkstra

    Good Water, Good Policy

    The Netherlands is required to meet the WFD standards by 2027. What government policy is needed to achieve the WFD objectives as quickly as possible and then consolidate the objectives achieved?
    19 April 2023
    news
    Construction of wind turbines in a spacious landscape Photo: Nationale Beeldbank / Van Zalk Organisatie en adviesbureau

    Implementation Capacity

    How can the government reinforce the implementation capacity needed to put into practice (in good time) the proposed policies for tackling the major challenges within the living environment, and what factors impede or promote this? These are the key questions ...
    27 March 2023
    news
    Cover advisory report Every region counts!

    Three advisory councils, Rli, RVS and ROB, publish their advisory report ‘Every region counts! A new approach to regional disparities’

    Advice of Rli, RVS and ROB to the Dutch government: A change of approach is needed in the area of regional policy
    27 March 2023
    publication
    Illustration by Jenneke Drupsteen Grafische vormgeving, The Hague, The Netherlands Illustration by Jenneke Drupsteen Grafische vormgeving, The Hague, The Netherlands

    Every region counts!

    There are significant differences between the regions of the Netherlands. Differences in landscape and regional culture, for example, give the Netherlands its character, but many other regional disparities are undesirable and major changes in government policy will be needed to counter them.
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