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VROM Council recommendations for sustainable urban development

VROM-raad - march 2011
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This advice presents the findings of a search for a perspective on urbanization.
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This VROM Council advice presents the findings of a search for a perspective on urbanization in the Netherlands that can inspire enthusiasm. The motivation is twofold: the current urbanization challenge and the urgency of sustainable urban development.

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The Council for Housing, Spatial Planning and the Environment (VROM-raad)

Mission and terms of reference

The Council for Housing, Spatial Planning and the Environment provides advice to the government and parliament on sustainable environment policy, particularly in the field of  housing, spatial planning and the environment. The emphasis is placed on strategic choices for the medium and long term at the beginning of the policy cycle. In addition, the Council for Housing, Spatial Planning and the Environment provides both solicited and unsolicited advice pertaining to topical issues.

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Every journey has its price

VROM-raad - january 2008
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A policy strategy for cutting transport CO2 emissions
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Joint advice of the council for transport, public works and water management (Raad voor Verkeer en Waterstaat, council for housing, spatial planing and the environment (VROM-raad) and energy council (algemene Energieraad) to the Netherlands government.

If European climate targets for 2050 are to be realised, the Netherlands and Europe will need to pursue far more vigorous policies to address the CO2 emissions of the transport sector. In the absence of robust measures, the rapidly growing transport sector threatens to take up the entire European CO2 ‘emissions space’ by about 2050. To get anywhere near the stated European emission targets, industry, households, power generation and other sectors would have to reduce their CO2 emissions to virtually zero. As this is obviously out of the question, over the coming decades the transport sector will itself have to make a major contribution to reducing carbon emissions.

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Dutch advisory councils: “Urgent need to put a price on transport CO2 emissions"

Press release VROM-raad - 28 january 2008

Current policies for the transport sector are utterly inadequate for securing long-term European climate objectives. To achieve these targets the ever-upward trend in the CO2 emissions of both passenger and freight transport must be breached. Without appropriate action the transport sector will take up the entire European CO2 emissions ‘space’ by the year 2050. Robust measures in this fast-growing sector are thus urgently required. The government consequently needs to take vigorous initiatives on pricing policy, dedicated CO2 reduction policy and flanking policy. This is the conclusion of the Council for Transport, Public Works and Water Management, the Council for Housing, Spatial Planning and the Environment and the Energy Council in the joint advice set out in the report ‘Een prijs voor elke reis’. An abridged version is available in an English translation entitled ‘Every journey has its price’. The advice was presented to Ministers Eurlings, Cramer and Van der Hoeven of the three relevant departments on Monday, 28th January.

In the Councils’ view it is the combination of these three policy tracks that is so essential. If long-term CO2 reduction targets are to be realised, pricing policy is indispensable. In other words, the CO2 emissions of all forms of transport – overland, maritime and air – must be assigned a price as soon as possible. Payment for CO2 emissions can be effectuated via either charges or emissions trading. A pricing mechanism will induce businesses and consumers to seek transport alternatives with less climate impact.

Every journey has its price
Towards a sustainable food system
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Sustainable development of marine potential

VROM-raad - may 2007
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A vision on an integrated maritime policy in Europe and the Netherlands
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The European seas and oceans, the North and Wadden Sea included, are harbouring an enormous economical and ecological potential. At the same time it is justified to state that pressures on the seas due to human activities are strong and growing stronger. The European Commission is set on developing a European Maritime Policy through which the potential of the European oceans and seas will be optimised. This policy should balance the economical, social and sustainable aspects.

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Collaboration in the Eurodelta

VROM-raad - december 2005
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Opportunities for strengthening the position of the Netherlands, Belgium and Germany in the economic core area of continental Northwest Europe
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In this advice the Advisory Council for Transport, Public Works and Water Management calls for attention to opportunities for strengthening the position of the Netherlands through active and broad-based European regional collaboration between those parts of the Netherlands, Belgium and Germany that show a strong economic coherence. The areas in question in the three countries together comprise the economic core area in continental Northwest Europe, referred to by the working title of “Eurodelta” in this document. The Council believes that wider European regional collaboration in fields such as economic development, spatial planning, construction and maintenance of infrastructure facilities, traffic, transport and logistics may lead to a win-win situation for all three countries involved.

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Dutch advisory councils call for higher priority to be assigned to development of a sustainable energy system

Press release VROM-raad - 11 may 2005

Our energy system is not sustainable. The General Energy Council and the Council for the Environment (VROM Council) consider this a serious threat to our society. Problems such as climate change and the growing dependence on oil and natural gas from politically unstable regions must be tackled with high priority. The conversion (transition) of our energy system to a sustainable one is a complex process which will take decades.

We should start this process now, through strengthened national and international policies. In this process of renewal, the government is the appropriate party to guide and direct the required combined efforts of the business sector, knowledge institutions, non-governmental organisations, consumers and the government itself. The main aim should be to encourage goal-oriented, bold innovation of the energy system based on a long-term vision, and to create opportunities for the Dutch business sector.

Energy transition: A climate for new opportunities
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Energy transition: A climate for new opportunities

VROM-raad - december 2004
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Joint advice of the council for housing, spatial planning and the environment and the general energy council of The Netherlands
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With this advice, the Councils are responding to the request from the Minister of Economic
Affairs and the State Secretary for Housing, Spatial Planning and the Environment to advise the government on its role in achieving the necessary system innovations in the field of the energy economy.

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The Netherlands and the European Environment

VROM-raad - december 1999
Subtitel
Advice on Differentiation in Europe an Environmental Policy
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The European Union presently comprises 15 member states, but talks are being held with at least another 13 potential members: ten from Central and Eastern Europe, as well as Cyprus, Malta and Turkey. In a number of cases these talks have become fullblown negotations about accession, with some countries possibly acceding to the EU as early as 2003. This enlargement is concentrating minds on the future decisionmaking structure within the EU. But the anticipated en largement is also giving rise to questions about the shaping of environmental policy in the European Union and leading to a rethink about the role of the Netherlands in all this.

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Mobility within Reason

VROM-raad - november 1999
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English translation from Dutch summary
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In its advice 'Mobility within Reason’ the Council for Housing, Spatial Planning and the Environment analyses the merits of the present policy towards road traffic, and draws up proposals for updating this strategy to produce a more favourable balance between the costs and benefits of mobility. If adequate solutions are to be devised, the adverse effects need to be analysed in terms of the geographical level (i.e. local, regional , national, global) at which they occur.

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