Noticias
September 18, 2019
Environmental externalities call for the use of environmental taxes to get prices right and thereby reduce environmental pressures. To date, however, the Spanish government makes only limited use of environmental taxes. One major reason for the policy reluctance are concerns on the regressive impacts of environmental taxes. We argue that policy can hedge against these concerns by means of revenue recycling. More specifically, we assess the impacts of a green tax reform where additional revenues are redistributed lump-sum to Spanish households on an equal-per-capita basis. Based on quantitative evidence from coupled microsimulation and computable equilibrium analyses we find that such a green tax reform leads to a substantial reduction in harmful emissions while having a progressive impact.
September 16, 2019
BC3 – Basque Centre for Climate Change former cientific director Anil Markandya took part this week at the fourteenth meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the UN Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD COP 14). This conference was scherduled to take place from 2-13 September 2019, at the India Expo Center and Mart in New Delhi, India.Part of the side event “Economics of land degradation: Development Alternatives, WOTR & the ELD Initiative” the Distinguished Ikerbasque Professor Markandya gave a presentation about “Economics of Land Degatation: Insights from an evaluation study in Bundelhand by Development Alternatives Group”.
September 12, 2019
BC3 - Basque Centre for Climate Change recibe el distintivo María de Maeztu de la mano del Ministro de Ciencia, Innovación y Universidades de España Pedro Duque.La directora científica del centro María José Sanz ha acudido a la entrega de distintivos donde destaco la importancia de la "ciencia del cambio climático desde un enfoque transdisciplinar, fomentando la coproducción de conocimiento relevante para la toma de decisiones e integrando las dimensiones ambientales, socioeconómicas y éticas del cambio climático." María José Sanz
September 11, 2019
New blog post on upcoming collaboration wit the IDB to connect ecosystem services to economic (CGE) models and make underlying data and models FAIR. Under the title "Developing Tools for Valuing Natural Capital’s Contribution to Economic Well-Being: OPEN IEEM" Ferdinando Villa, BC3 Ikerbasque researcher, Onil Banerjee from Natural Resource Economist with the IDB, Kenneth J Bagstad from Research Economist with the U.S. Geological Survey in Denver and Martin Cicowiez from researcher at the Center for Distributive, Labor and Social Studies explains the advancements on linking the IEEM platform with Ecosystem Services Values and to the contribution to economic well-being.
September 10, 2019
Los responsables del Centro Vasco para el Cambio Climático (BC3), el Centro de Investigación en Biomateriales (CIC biomaGUNE) y el Centro Vasco de Matemática Aplicada (BCAM) asistieron ayer a la ceremonia de entrega de las acreditaciones Severo Ochoa y María de Maeztu que concede la Agencia Estatal de Investigación. En el acto, que tuvo lugar en Madrid, participaron el ministro en funciones de Ciencia, Innovación y Universidades, Pedro Duque; la secretaria de estado de Universidades, Investigación, Desarrollo e Innovación, Ángeles Heras; y el director de la Agencia Estatal de Investigación, Enrique Playán.
September 9, 2019
El investigador de BC3 Mikel González-Eguino ofreció el 5 de Septiembre de 2019 una conferencia sobre el Cambio Climático con el objetivo de concienciar sobre las acciones responsables del cambio climático y motivar en su divulgación entre los escolares y en la puesta en marcha de pequeñas alternativas en el Colegio Santa María Marianistas de Vitoria-Gasteiz, del que es antiguo alumno.
August 14, 2019
La directora científica del Basque Centre for Climate Change, María José Sanz, ha sido editora del primer capítulo de este informe especial y una de las tres expertas que han participado en este informe a nivel nacional. Medios de comunicación nacionales y regionales han entrevistado a Sanz para saber más sobre los resultados de informe. EITB, eldiario.es o Science Magazine, han sido uno de los medios de comunicación que han entrevistado a María José Sanz.
August 12, 2019
Lennart Olsson of the Center for Sustainability Studies at Lund University in Sweden, William Schlesinger, former director of the Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies in Millbrook, New York and María José Sanz ecophysiologist and the scientific director at the Basque Center for Climate Change has been interviewed by Erik Stokstad from the Science Magazine about the results of last report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) in Geneva, Switzerland.
August 8, 2019
La edición especial de Egunon Bizkaia de Herri Irratia-Radio Popular de agosto BC3 colabora con Arantza Sinoba en una sección semana donde el cambio climático será el hilo conductor. A lo largo de tres semanas, cada miércoles, entre las 12.30-13.00, investigadores del centro acompañaran a Sinoba para plasmar las causas y consecuencias de esta crisis climática.
August 7, 2019
There is increased interest in the role of trees to reduce air pollution and thereby improve human health and well-being. This study determined the removal of air pollutants by dry deposition of trees across the Basque Country and estimated its annual economic value. A model that calculates the hourly dry deposition of NO2, O3, SO2, CO and PM10 on trees at a 1 km x 1 km resolution at a regional scale was developed.