Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency

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The Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency (Dutch : Planbureau voor de Leefomgeving - abbr. PBL) is a Dutch research institute that advises the Dutch government on environmental policy and regional planning issues. The research fields include sustainable development, energy and climate change, biodiversity, transport, land use, and air quality. It is one of three applied policy research institutes of the Dutch government, the other two being Centraal Planbureau (CPB), and The Netherlands Institute for Social Research (SCP). Since January 2023 Marko Hekkert is director of the Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency.

The PBL was created on May 15, 2008, by merging the Netherlands Environmental Agency (Dutch : Milieu- en Natuurplanbureau) (MNP) with the Netherlands Institute for Spatial Research (Dutch : Ruimtelijk Planbureau) (RPB). The English name for the new organization was borrowed from the MNP, which was part of the Netherlands National Institute for Public Health and the Environment (RIVM) until May 1, 2005. It is currently an agency of the Dutch Ministry of Infrastructure and the Environment (IenW, Ministerie van Infrastructuur en Waterstaat).

The Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency is located in The Hague [1] and employs approximately 250 [2] people.

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References

  1. "Contact". Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency. 29 December 2010. Retrieved 19 December 2021.
  2. Annual report (PDF) (in Dutch). PBL. 2022.