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96 advisory reports
Making sustainability fair
Advisory report
Rli - 30 March 2026
The benefits and burdens of sustainability measures are not fairly distributed. How do we make sustainability policies both fair and effective?
Participation without prejudice
Advisory report
Rli - 9 October 2025
How can state-owned enterprises within the physical living environment domain help to safeguard public interests?
Building for the Future
Advisory report
Rli - 19 June 2025
The government's ambition is to build 100,000 homes a year. The use of sustainable materials is essential to meet climate targets. Frontrunners are already building homes using sustainable materials. To get the entire construction chain on board, the government needs to provide stronger guidance.
Working together to do better
Advisory report
Rli - 13 June 2025
Bonaire, Sint-Eustatius and Saba are lagging behind with respect to the quality of their physical environment. A joint approach by the national government and public bodies is needed to achieve equal quality of the physical environment for all of the Netherlands.
Failure and Recovery
Advisory report
Rli - 15 May 2025
What will it take to solve major deadlocked problems within the living environment? What are the roles government, businesses, and communities need to play in this?
Meaningful government
Advisory report
Rli - 9 July 2024
How can central government ensure that decision-making promotes 'wellbeing', in other words all factors that determine wellbeing?
Judging the Right Balance
Advisory report
Rli - 26 June 2024
Is it the legislature, the administration, or the courts that determine policy on the environment? Various court cases on environmental issues show that the task of safeguarding the rule of law is becoming too one-sidedly vested in the courts.
Spatial planning in a changing climate
Advisory report
Rli - 12 June 2024
To ensure that the Netherlands is able to cope with the effects of climate change, we need to adopt a different approach to spatial planning in our country.
Firm Foundations
Advisory report
Rli - 29 February 2024
Throughout the Netherlands, many buildings have damage to their foundations. However, the lack of precise information for each building means that the problem has long failed to be tackled.
Bridging the Implementation Gap
Advisory report
Rli - 20 February 2024
The Netherlands faces major challenges in the physical living environment, such as building large numbers of homes or dealing with the consequences of a changing climate. Some of these challenges have been ongoing for decades, and they are becoming increasingly urgent.