Nature and environment

News

-9%

Greenhouse gas emissions 9 percent lower in Q2 2022
Installation of solar panels

Environmental sector keeps growing in importance
Cows grazing in the fields

Less nitrogen and phosphate excretion from livestock manure
Dutch landschap in Flevoland, with wind turbines, a cyclist,, a lorry, a tractor and a farmer spreading manure..

Dutch well-being high, but under increasing pressure
Aerial photo of Biesbosch National Park.

Built-up area expanding at the cost of farmland
-11%

Greenhouse gas emissions 11 percent lower in Q1 2022
+2.5%

Households used more water in 2020, companies less

Greenhouse gas emissions 2.1 percent higher in 2021
Natural gas distribution station

Natural gas consumption 4 percent lower in 2021
-25.5%

Urgenda reduction target for GHG emissions achieved in 2020
A farmer spraying pesticides on his pear trees.

Less pesticide used in agriculture
-3%

Greenhouse gas emissions lower in Q3 2021

Figures

Consumer price index (CPI)

Inflation (CPI)

Harmonised consumer price index (HICP)

Price index (CPI)

Imports and exports; key figures

Publications

Windmolens in agrarisch landschap

Ecosystems and wellbeing – the impact of land use changes
Cover of publication The Netherlands in numbers, edition 2021

The Netherlands in numbers, 2021 edition
windmills

Climate and Energy Outlook 2021

Internationalisation Monitor 2021, second quarter

Dutch Natural Capital Accounts 2013-2018
Red egret in front of a freightship being loaded

Study completed on data availability of SDGs on CN
Thumbnail The Netherlands in Numbers 2020

The Netherlands in Numbers, 2020

SDGs in the Netherlands: Status Report 2020
Cover, Monitor of Well-being & Sustainable Development Goals 2020

Monitor of well-being & the SDGs 2020
Cover trends in the Netherlands 2019

Trends in the Netherlands 2019

The Sustainable Development Goals in the Dutch context

Trends in the Netherlands 2018

In-depth articles

Arial view of the port of Rotterdam, oil tanks, containers and mineral depots

Integrating Monetary Environmental Accounts
Windmills behind sanddunes

SEEA-EEA biodiversity account 2006-2013

The ecosystem service supply and use in the Netherlands

Decline in farmland flora and fauna as of 1900

Monetary valuation of ecosystem services for the Netherlands

Natural capital accounts for the Dutch North Sea 2019

Material Flow Monitor 2016 - Technical report

Economic indicators circular economy, 2001-2016
Cover paper Models and statistical methods in rtrim

Models and statistical methods in rtrim

Linking Microdata and analysis of enterprises in EU ETS

Pressure gradients and earthquake rates in Groningen

Weibull fitting of earthquakes in Groningen