Asteklima: Big Data, klima aldaketaren aurkako erreminta
Edificio Bizkaia Alameda Urquijo Nº36, Bilbao, SpainEl primer paso para encontrar una solución para cualquier problema, grande o pequeño, es comprenderlo tanto como sea humanamente posible. Necesitamos un conocimiento sobre lo que está sucediendo en nuestro planeta y lo que está causando los cambios ambientales más significativos, ¿podemos revertirlos? Y cuáles son sus consecuencias para nuestras sociedades. Más importante aún, debemos entender cómo el mundo de hoy es diferente del mundo de ayer y cómo podemos usar esa información para tener una visión más clara del mundo de mañana y cómo podemos ayudar a construirlo como sociedad.
BC3 Lunch Seminar: How do trees “handwrite” and manage to communicate with us?
BC3-Basque Centre for Climate Change Sede Building 1, 1st floor, Scientific Park of the University of the Basque Country, Leioa, Bizkaia, SpainHandwriting is a human attributed characteristic, being widely accepted that the oldest writing dates around 3400 BC. But actually trees “invented handwriting” first … about 390 million years ago when conifer trees appeared, and they have been writing ever since. Each year trees form new wood cells that arrange in concentric circles forming what we call annual tree-rings, which is their way of “handwriting” and communicate with us. It was in the early 1900s when the astronomer Andrew E. Douglass managed to cipher tree-rings “handwriting”.
BC3 Joint Seminar: March 27, 2019
BC3-Basque Centre for Climate Change Sede Building 1, 1st floor, Scientific Park of the University of the Basque Country, Leioa, Bizkaia, SpainClimate change mitigation pathways can differ strongly from one to else other, depending on the policy design, technological development or the established climate objectives. Integrated assessment models are able to project countless different climate change mitigation scenarios, allowing to compare the effects that each scenario has on other aspects, such as health, land use, energy security, inequality etc. Moreover, connecting these kind of models with additional tools increases the range of scenario implications that can be studied. In this seminar, we introduce the Global Change Assessment Model (GCAM) and other tools that can be connected to this model, such as the air quality emulator TM5-FASST.
BC3 Seminar: Changing cities in a changing climate
BC3-Basque Centre for Climate Change Sede Building 1, 1st floor, Scientific Park of the University of the Basque Country, Leioa, Bizkaia, Spain• In this lecture, I will examine my own role, as a researcher, in advancing a progressive agenda that responds to an urgent climate change challenge. I will explore the tensions between experimental forms of action-research, policy-oriented research, and curiosity-led research and the way in which these different forms of thinking have shaped my research agenda as I have attempted to respond to what I believe is the most important challenge of our times: enabling life in a climate changed future.”
Workshop: Klima aldaketa enpresetan eta industrian
Escuela de Ingeniería de Gipuzkoa Otaola Hiribidea, Eibar, Gipuzkoa, SpainDesde La Escuela de Ingeniería de Gipuzkoa (Sección Eibar, Grado de Ingeniería en energías renovables), BC3 (Basque Centre for Climate Change) y Funts Project, entendemos que el cambio climático es uno de los ejes importantes a integrar en nuestro acompañamiento a las organizaciones e instituciones. Un compañero de viaje repentino que viene para quedarse y que va a influir y generar cambios que van a afectar a la sociedad en su conjunto y a las organizaciones en particular de una manera que todavía desconocemos, pero sin duda impactará directamente en el modelo de cultura de cada organización.
International Spring University on Ecosystem Services Modeling
Hi! Plaza Plaza de la Cantera, 4, Bilbao, Bizkaia, SpainThe 2019 event is directed to a new generation of scientists and policy analysts who can effectively use coupled human-environmental models in research, policy and management to address and solve sustainable problems. This year´s event is also intended as an update on the latest developments in the k.LAB modeling software, including key updates to make model coding and reuse more user friendly, targeted for both new participants and those from previous years.
BC3 Seminar: Evolución del paisaje en nuestros bosques
BC3-Basque Centre for Climate Change Sede Building 1, 1st floor, Scientific Park of the University of the Basque Country, Leioa, Bizkaia, SpainEl desarrollo que ha tenido la silvicultura vasca en el paisaje de nuestros montes. Los bosques se han trabajado y se han gestionado en los miles de años para responder a las necesidades de nuestra cultura y de nuestro modo de vida. ¿Cómo se han adaptado la gestión pública y la privada? ¿Cómo hemos llegado a la situación lamentable de los pinares de hoy en día? ¿Y el futuro?
BC3 Seminar: Essential Resources, Social Dilemmas and the Evolution of Cooperation: Paths Towards a Just and Sustainable Future
BC3-Basque Centre for Climate Change Sede Building 1, 1st floor, Scientific Park of the University of the Basque Country, Leioa, Bizkaia, SpainThe past two centuries of market-driven economic growth has witnessed dramatic increases in human life spans and well-being but also the emergence of unprecedented ecological and social problems, ranging from global warming to growing inequality. The most serious of these challenges affect essential resources such as food, energy, water and ecosystem services.
BC3 Seminar: Leverage Points for the sustainable management of nature’s contributions to people
BC3-Basque Centre for Climate Change Sede Building 1, 1st floor, Scientific Park of the University of the Basque Country, Leioa, Bizkaia, SpainI will introduce the framework of leverage points, i.e. places to intervene in a complex system that bring transformative change, to identify interventions that can promote sustainable management of nature’s contributions to people. I will specifically focus on the so called deep leverage points, which have exceptional potential to yield truly transformative change towards sustainability.
BC3 Seminar: Ecosystem Services, Climate Change, and the Environmentalists’ Paradox
BC3-Basque Centre for Climate Change Sede Building 1, 1st floor, Scientific Park of the University of the Basque Country, Leioa, Bizkaia, SpainThe latest IPBES report warns us of ongoing biodiversity collapse. The Ecosystem Services framework suggests that this will seriously affect human well-being. But policy-makers do not seem to respond with any great alacrity to these warnings. Some skeptics even point to rising human well-being as an indication that the claims linking nature and well-being are exaggerated.
