National Environmental Outlook 2: 1990-2010This second National Environmental Outlook analyses the degree to which the measures of the National Environmental Policy Plan (NEPP) and NEPP+ are sufficient to actually achieve the stated objectives of those plans in 2000 and 2010. These analyses take account of the latest insights from the natural sciences and future expectations in the areas of population growth, economy, energy use, motor traffic and agriculture. NEPP and NEPP+ envisage a discontinuity in the trend of our environmental behaviour. For instance, most pollutants will have to be reduced by 80-90 % in 2010. The waste of natural resources will have to be sharply reduced. This Environmental Outlook shows that the measures annouced up to mid-1991 will be sufficent for an emission reduction of 50-60 %. The meaures already established will not be sufficient to bring about any fall in the use of energy and raw materials. Further effort should be taken to achieve the established environmental goals by 2010. |
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