More than €820 million in public funding went to climate-oriented research and innovation in the Netherlands in 2017, 82 per cent of which came from the government, a report has shown.
The Rathenau Institute, which advises the government on research policy, mapped out Dutch climate spending in relation to the national climate agreement, a plan to tackle global warming presented by the government in June this year. As part of the plan, the Netherlands aims to emit 95 per cent less carbon dioxide in 2050 than it did in 1990.
“You need a starting point to see how investments in climate-oriented R&D develop from year to year. We have that now,” said Alexandra Vennekens, a coordinator at the Rathenau Institute.
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