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To promote transparency and provide information, the Federal Planning Bureau regularly publishes the methods and results of its works. The publications are organised in different series, such as Outlooks, Working Papers and Planning Papers. Some reports can be consulted here, along with the Short Term Update newsletters that were published until 2015. You can search our publications by theme, publication type, author and year.
Working Papers - Working Paper 16-08 (fr), (nl),
Working Papers - Working Paper 15-08 (fr), (nl),
Working Papers - Working Paper 14-08 (fr),
Working Papers - Working Paper 13-08 (nl),
Reports - Sustainable development Report 2007 - Synthese (fr), (nl),
Reports - Sustainable development Report 2007 - Folder (de), (fr), (nl),
Reports - Sustainable development Report 2007 (fr), (nl),
The publication of the fourth Federal Report on sustainable development implements the Belgian Act of 5 May 1997 on the Coordination of Federal Sustainable Development Policy. This Act institutes a strategic process of reporting, planning, implementation and monitoring in order to introduce these policies in Belgium at the federal level. This report proposes two long term (2050) sustainable development scenarios and assesses the existing situation, including the current policy on sustainable development.
Articles - Article 2007121001
This paper sheds light on several challenges related to the development of the energy system in Belgium up to 2050, taking into account constraints on the emissions of greenhouse gases (GHG) in a European context. It is based on two studies carried out by the Federal Planning Bureau in 2006 that deal with the related energy and climate change issues.
Articles - Article 2007030602
Working Papers - Working Paper 01-07 (fr), (nl),
Working Papers - Working Paper 07-06 (en), (fr), (nl),
Other publications - Kyoto 2006 (mix),
Many questions about the directions in which our societies develop require answers from the authorities. Guiding this development requires an overall vision of the situation, which can be obtained by systematically organising the available social, environmental, economic and political information. The third Belgian Federal Report on Sustainable Development proposes such a comprehensive systemic model for describing and analysing how a given society develops.
Articles - Sust dev Report 2002
Other publications - Sustainable development Report 2000-2004 - Indic (fr), (nl),
Reports - Sustainable development Report 2000-2004 - Folder (de), (en), (fr), (nl),
Reports - Sustainable development Report 2000-2004 (de), (fr), (nl),
Working Papers - Working Paper 14-05 (fr),
In July 2003 the Belgian federal government’s Policy Declaration expressed its intention to assess its sustainable development policy. This Working Paper aims to facilitating this, by delivering a timely evaluation of both the implementation of the first two Federal Plans for Sustainable Development and the Federal strategic policy process in which these plans are elaborated, implemented and monitored. The last part of the Paper describes the strategies for sustainable development at other Belgian and international policy levels, including partnerships for sustainable development. The Belgian Federal Strategy for Sustainable Development is a learning process. The federal authorities have taken important steps to put sustainable development into practice. This paper shows that improvements are necessary and points out where they are possible.
Articles - Article 2005030702
This Working Paper describes, with a sustainable development approach, the relationships between the production patterns' evolution and the state of the human capital in Belgium with an international perspective. Human capital is defined here as occupational and environmental health, as well as knowledge and capacities. The Driving forces-Pressure-State-Impact-Response framework is used to understand and analyse these relationships. The Paper also presents the political initiatives developed to promote more sustainable production patterns and to strengthen the human capital.
Articles - Article 2005030701
Working Papers - Working Paper 01-05 (fr), (nl),
Working Papers - Working Paper 22-04 (fr),
Working Papers - Working Paper 17-04 (nl),
Working Papers - Working Paper 06-04 (nl),
Working Papers - Working Paper 04-04 (fr),
This paper describes the compilation of the use tables for imports of goods and for trade margins for Belgium in 1995. It introduces a methodological novelty by integrating the compilation of both tables and systematically exploiting the fact that large parts of intermediary consumption and investment (i.e. those directly imported by the using firms) as well as exports (the direct exports by producers) bear no trade margins.
Working Papers - Working Paper 03-04 (en), (fr), (nl),