Noticias
April 10, 2019
Ignacio Palomo's proposal on "Transformative change as a response to climate change in mountain social-ecological systems" has been selected for the MRI Synthesis Workshops. A total of 14 workshop proposals were submitted and eligible for review, which was comprised of MRI Principal Investigators, MRI Science Leadership Council members, and the MRI Executive Director.
April 9, 2019
BC3 ha tenido un rol activo en los cursos de verano de UPV/EHU desde 2019. En esta edición 2019, BC3, Basque Centre for Climate Change, co-organiza dos cursos de verano; MC3-UPV/EHU Transformation, Adaptation and Mitigation for a 1.5 degree Global Warming junto a la UPV/EHU y Curso de verano en Resistencia a antibióticos en el medio ambiente: origen de un escenario apocalíptico junto a Euskampus, Neiker Tecnalia y UPV/EHU, este julio en Bizkaia.
April 5, 2019
Science should provide solutions for societal transformations toward sustainability in the face of global environmental change. Land system science, as a systemic science focused on complex socio-ecological interactions around land use and associated trade-offs and synergies, is well placed to contribute to this agenda.
April 5, 2019
BC3 Scientific director María José Sanz took part at the "key systems models, links and gaps and development options"workshop. In the context of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Special Report on 1.5°C, the JPI Climate Action Group "GHG emissions, removals and management systems" organised a workshop on 27-28 March 2019, in Brussels, with the aim to explore the state of play of key models (central to the provision of analysis of the drivers of climate change and response options to achieve policy goals as established in the Paris Agreement), including how models are linked and gaps that may exist between them.
April 3, 2019
Enhancing the governance of social-ecological systems for more equitable and sustainable development is hindered by inadequate knowledge about how different social groups and communities rely on natural resources. We used openly accessible national survey data to develop a metric of overall dependence on natural resources. These data contain information about households' sources of water, energy, building materials and food.
April 3, 2019
Climate change-induced tree mortality is occurring worldwide, at increasingly larger scales and with increasing frequency. How climate change-induced tree mortality could affect the ecology and carbon (C) sink capacity of soils remains unknown. This study investigated regional-scale drought-induced tree mortality, based on events that occurred after a very dry year (2012) in the Carpathians mountain range (Romania), which caused mortality in three common conifer species: Scots pine, Black pine, and Silver fir.
April 2, 2019
Woody encroachment is a widespread phenomenon resulting from the abandonment of mountain agricultural and pastoral practices during the last century. As a result, forests have expanded, increasing biomass and necromass carbon (C) pools. However, the impact on soil organic carbon (SOC) is less clear. The main aim of this study was to investigate the effect of woody encroachment on SOC stocks and ecosystem C pools in six chronosequences located along the Italian peninsula, three in the Alps and three in the Apennines.
March 21, 2019
A raíz de la conferencia internacional sobre el cambio climático Change the Change celebrada en San Sebastián a principios del mes de marzo de 2019 Mikel Gonzalez Eguino, investigador de BC3 y coordinador de la linea Low Carbon ha sido entrevistado por el medio digital BI FM junto a Ana Urrutia, presentadora de Eguraldia de EITB. Durante la entrevista Urrutia y Gonzalez-Eguino han recalcado que el cambio climático es un hecho y que hay que conseguir concienciar a las personas.
March 20, 2019
Dentro de la "Semana del Cambio Climático" de Euskadi se ha celebrado la Conferencia Internacional de Cambio Climático 2019 “Change the Change” en San Sebastián, con el objetivo de movilizar a la ciudadanía hacia el compromiso personal frente al cambio climático. Organizada por el Departamento de Medio Ambiente, Planificación Territorial y Vivienda del Gobierno Vasco, Ministerio para la Transición Ecológica, Diputación Foral de Gipuzkoa y Ayuntamiento de Donostia/San Sebastián, y donde BC3 a apoyado el congreso como coordinador científico, se han tratado los retos del cambio climático y se han dado a conocer las iniciativas y las acciones que se están generando para luchar contra ello.
March 18, 2019
The project Deltas, vulnerability and Climate Change; Migration as an Adaptation (DECCMA), has release a new policy brief "Climate change and the economic future of deltas in Africa and Asia". The objective of it is to explore the economics implications of climate change for the three deltas of the DECCMA project and to summarise the finds for the Business as Usual scenario, without climate change, with climate change, and with climate change and adaptation.