Research
January 29, 2018
Published by BC3Research at January 29, 2018
Categories
El Low Carbon Programme (programa conjunto de investigación entre el Basque Centre for Climate Change (BC3) y la Universidad del País Vasco(UPV/EHU)) oferta, en el marco de un acuerdo de colaboración con la Fundación BBK, dos bolsas de ayuda de 1.500 euros para la realización de tesinas de máster sobre “Crecimiento verde en Bizkaia”.
September 29, 2017
Published by BC3Research Luis Mª Abadie Ibon Galarraga at September 29, 2017
Categories
The cement sector is highly intensive in CO2 emissions and is the second biggest industrial sector in terms of emissions after the electricity generation sector. It emits CO2 from the combustion of fossil fuels, the calcination process and, indirectly, from electricity consumption. The ambitious climate change policy in the EU means that carbon prices and fuel prices are two very important sources of uncertainty that may affect the competitiveness of the sector. This paper focuses on understanding the risk associated with the future price of European Union Emission Trading System allowances.
September 28, 2017
Published by BC3Research Anil Markandya Iñaki Arto at September 28, 2017
Jean-Claude Juncker, President of the European Commission, in his State of the Union of 13 September 2017, has referred for the second consecutive year to the report “EU Exports to the World: Effects on Employment and Income” authored by BC3 researchers, Dr. Iñaki Arto and Prof. Anil Markandya.
September 27, 2017
Published by BC3Research Luis Mª Abadie Ibon Galarraga Elisa Sainz de Murieta at September 27, 2017
Categories
Investment decisions in adaptation are usually made under significant uncertainty due to climate change and socio-economic trends. In this study, we propose three ways to incorporate climate and socio-economic uncertainty into the assessment of an adaptation infrastructure designed to cope with flood-risk in the city of Bilbao.
September 14, 2017
Published by BC3Research at September 14, 2017
Categories
We present a 7-ka environmental reconstruction based on sedimentological and geochemical data from Lago Vichuquén, a coastal eutrophic lake in central Chile (34°48′S, 72°03′ W, 4 m a.s.l.). A relatively shallow and restricted marine environment with low productivity, high detrital input and dominant anoxic conditions in the Vichuquén Basin occurred from 7.0 to 6.5 cal ka BP.
September 10, 2017
Published by BC3Research Ignacio Palomo at September 10, 2017
Categories
In environmental valuation, although it is well recognised that the choice of method heavily affects the outcome, little is known on how existing valuation methods actually elicit the different values. Through the assessment of real-life applications of valuation of nature, this study tracks down the suitability of 21 valuation methods for 11 value types and assesses the methodological requirements for their operationalization.
August 28, 2017
Published by BC3Research at August 28, 2017
Categories
This paper investigates the empirical and theoretical basis of the decoupling between energy throughput and economic growth, with a critical view of the use of the decoupling concept as a policy priority. We provide an analysis of the historical trends of the metabolic pattern of European economies over a period of 18 years focusing on the changes in energy throughput and financial assets.
August 16, 2017
Published by BC3Research Unai Pascual at August 16, 2017
Categories
We examine the emergence of land markets and their effects on forest land appropriation by farm households in Jambi Province, Sumatra, using micro-level data covering land use and land transactions for a period of more than 20 years (1992–2015).
August 15, 2017
Published by BC3Research Unai Pascual at August 15, 2017
BC3´s research project “Nurturing a Shift towards Equitable Valuation of Nature in the Anthropocene (EQUIVAL), one of the 5 winner of PEGASuS, Biodiversity & Natural Assets grant programme
The five projects awarded funding in the first round of the Program for Early-stage Grants Advancing Sustainability Science (PEGASuS) focus on questions critical to human wellbeing – from sustainable farming to the loss of mountain biodiversity.
August 13, 2017
Published by BC3Research Luis Mª Abadie at August 13, 2017
Categories
Oil producers are going through a hard period. They have a number of real options at their disposal. This paper addresses the valuation of two of them: the option to delay investment and the option to abandon a producing field.