Announcements
May 9, 2019
BC3 celebrates the 8 edition of Klimagune Workshop. This year edition will address the challenges of urban adaptation to climate change, next 7th of June at Bizkaia Aretoa, Bilbao. Organized in within the framework of PROCESA research project and has the support of the Biodiversity Foundation of Spanish Ministry for Ecological Transition.
May 8, 2019
The Scientific Director of BC3, Prof. María José Sanz, is currently in Kyoto, Japan, in the IPCC discussion on the last new Methodology Report titled "Refinement of 2019 of the 2006 IPCC Guidelines for National Greenhouse Gas Inventories", within which she participates as the coordinator of leading author Agustin Prado, BC3 researcher.
April 15, 2019
Adif Alta Velocidad ha realizado una nueva emisión de ‘bonos verdes’, por importe de 600 millones de euros, destinados a financiar o refinanciar proyectos que generan beneficios ambientales o climáticos. La duración del bono es de 8 años con un pago de cupón anual del 0,95%. El diferencial frente al Bono del Tesoro español a dicho plazo se ha situado en 28 puntos básicos, reduciendo el margen de la emisión realizada en abril de 2018 en 6 puntos básicos. BC3, en colaboración con CICERO (Center for International Climate Research), ha sido encargado de revisar los "bonos verdes" que siguen los principios de ICMA (International Capital Market Association), donde otorgó a Adif AV la máxima calificacion de los cuatro niveles existentes (Dark Green).
April 15, 2019
BC3 co-organiza el workshop "El Cambio Climático en las empresas y la industria" junto a UPV/EHU y Funts Project el próximo 6 de mayo en la Escuela de Ingeniería de Gipuzkoa (Escuela de Eibar). Este evento tiene como objetivo ayudar a las empresas y a la industria a aclarar las dudas sobre el cambio climático, a entender el nuevo marco en el que se van a mover las empresas y establecer un hoja de ruta que permita a las empresa dar los primeros pasos hacia un nuevo modelo de organización responsable con su entorno y con el planeta.
April 15, 2019
Now available the seminar of Research Prof. Vanesa Castán Broto, research professor in the Sheffield Urban Institute, University of Sheffield, about "Changing cities in a changing climate". Researcher Castán took part at our annual Visiting programme, where researcher for different institutions came to our centre to give a seminar about their latest research.
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 has an active roll at UPV/EHU courses since July 2009. In this edition of summer course of the University of the Basque Country, BC3, Basque Centre for Climate Change, co-organize two Summer Schools, BC3-UPV/EHU Summer School on Transformation, Adaptation and Mitigation for a 1.5 degree Global Warming, with UPV/EHU and Summer School on Environment Resistance to Antibiotics; the beginning of an apocalyptic scenario with Euskampus, Neiker Tecnalia and UPV/EHU, this July in Biscay.
January 21, 2019
The Ministry of Education of the Basque Government and BC3, jointly organize the “Training Caravan – Ikertzaileak Gelan” initiative that has been active since 2010. This initiative (10th edition this year) is organized under the BC3 Responsible Research and Innovation (RRI) Programme Framework.The aim the Training Caravan initiative, underpinned by the Science Education thematic area of BC3´s RRI Science Education, is to provide evidence(science)-based answers to some central questions about climate change, drawing on the best current scientific understanding and at the same time, making science education and careers attractive for young people.
December 28, 2018
Unai Pascual, Ikerbasque Research Professor at BC3 (Basque Centre for Climate Change), has been named to the prestigious Clarivate Analytics list of "Highly Cited Researchers" for 2018 . The 2018 list of Highly Cited Researchers, in a new Cross-Field category to identify researchers with substantial influence across several fields during 2006-2016 with production of multiple highly cited papers that rank in the top 1% in Web of Science, includes researchers ranking in the top 1 percent by citations for field and publication year.
December 10, 2018
BC3 side event video available at COP24 official website. Implementation of climate policies and targets by non-state actors side event was organized the Basque Centre for Climate Change (BC3) in collaboration with the Centre For Research on Energy and Environmental Economics and Policy (IEFE) of Bocconi University Milan and the Foundation for Gaia.