April 15, 2017
Interview gave by the Bc3 researcher, Mikel González-Eguino, in "Más que palabras (Radio Euskadi)" radio programme "Se puede avanzar hacia una economía baja en Carbono"Mikel Gonzalez-Eguino es profesor de investigación en Economía del Cambio Climático, Economía Ambiental y de la Energía y Evaluación Integrada del Centro Vasco para el Cambio Climático.
May 4, 2017
"Cities in Southeast Asia, Eastern Africa and on US West Coast need to act on sea-level rise most urgently".[Leioa (Spain), 4th May 2017] For people and insurance companies alike, it is the extreme events – with low probability but highly damaging - that are the most devastating. Storm Desmond, for example, flooded northwestern areas of the UK in 2015, and Hurricane Katrina wreaked catastrophe on New Orleans in 2005. The same is true when it comes to future sea level rise. Now a study assesses coastal flood risk from sea level rise for 120 major coastal cities, and shows which cities are most vulnerable to extreme events.
May 22, 2017
Inaugurated the BC3-NUT Office for coordination of the relations between Japan and Europe within the framework of Japan’s Top Global University (TGU) Project through the Nagaoka University of Technology.- The BC3-NUT Office has been officially opened at the headquarters of BC3 - Basque Center for Climate Change in Leioa. Its mission is to coordinate the relations between Europe and Japan within the framework of Japan’s Top Global University (TGU) Project together with the Nagaoka University of Technology (NUT, Japan).- The attraction of this project to THE Basque Country is the result of the collaboration between BC3 and NUT, with the aid of bizkaia: talent.
