June 13, 2022

BC3 Scientific Director participated as an expert in the first Technical Dialogue of the Global Stocktake roundtables

BC3 Scientific Director María José Sanz participated as an expert in the first Technical Dialogue of the Global Stocktake roundtables and a “world café” that brought delegates and scientists together in a new, informal setting on the 10th of June. She will also participate in the second panel of the Round table on Mitigation on Monday the 13th.
June 6, 2022

BC3, as a member of the Coordinating Panel of the Citizen Assembly for the Climate, receives the Extraordinary Prize of Environment, Climate Action and civic commitment

BC3, as a member of the Coordinating Panel of the Citizen Assembly for the Climate, receives the Extraordinary Prize of Environment, Climate Action and civic commitment from Ministry for the Ecological Transition and the Demographic Challenge.
May 20, 2022

The Basque Department of Education and Ikerbasque have recognized the researcher Marta Olazabal as “Starting – an outstanding contribution of a young researcher”

The Evaluation Commission responsible for deliberating on the recognition of women researchers has unanimously agreed on which women researchers will receive this recognition in 2022, at each of the three levels in which they are awarded.
May 20, 2022

Report: Stockholm+50: unlocking a better future

Our partner in the network Think Sustainable Europe (TSE) the Swedish think tank Stockholm Environment Institute (SEI) has just released the report Stockholm+50: Unlocking a Better Future ahead of the Stockholm+50 summit next June. Sébastien Treyer took part in this report as a member of its advisory panel.
May 13, 2022

BC3 da comienzo a la iniciativa Training Caravan Txiki con la publicación del primer libro “Ilargiker eta Izotzaren Misterioak”

BC3 acaba de publicar su primer cuento de divulgación científica en euskera titulado “Ilargiker eta Izotzaren Misterioak / Ilargiker y los Misterios del Hielo” dirigido a la infancia de primaria de Euskadi. Se trata del primer cuento de una colección de publicaciones infantiles cuyo objetivo es dar a conocer la ciencia del cambio climático en los próximos años.
April 11, 2022

LIFE URBASO

BC3 – Basque Centre for Climate Change, junto a la reserva de la biosfera de Urdaibai, UPV/EHU, Consorcio de Aguas de Busturialdea y Agencia EFE particpa en el proyecto Life Urbaso que persigue demostrar que una planificación cuidadosa y adecuada de la gestión forestal en las cuencas vertientes a las captaciones de agua potable mejoran la calidad y aumentan la cantidad del agua captada, ambas imprescindibles para mejorar la salud humana y adaptarnos a las incertidumbres del cambio climático.
March 18, 2022

Las Naciones Unidas declaran 2026 Año Internacional de Pastizales y Pastores

El 15 de marzo de 2022, la Asamblea General de las Naciones Unidas en Nueva York declaró por unanimidad 2026 como el Año Internacional de Pastizales y Pastores. Esta aprobación final es la culminación de un movimiento del Año Internacional que creció durante varios años hasta convertirse en una coalición mundial de más de 300 organizaciones de pastores y de apoyo, entre ellas el Instituto Internacional de Investigación Pecuaria (ILRI) y varias agencias de la ONU. Basándose en estos esfuerzos, el Gobierno de Mongolia y 60 países copatrocinadores elaboraron y presentaron la resolución a la Asamblea General.
March 15, 2022

#ARIES15years: An overview of k.LAB’s main concepts and components

Over the past fifteen years, ARIES has contributed to building a global digital commons for environmental sustainability, through both its semantic web platform and its annual intensive modelling school for scientists and policy analysts, the International Spring University (ISU) on Ecosystem Services Modelling.
March 14, 2022

Researchers Marta Olazabal and Elisa Sainz de Murieta contribute to the new IPCC report on impacts, adaptation and vulnerability to climate change

The latest report of Working Group II of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has analyzed the impacts, adaptation and vulnerability of the climate crisis to ecosystems, infrastructure and human populations, where they have concluded that “Climate change is a threat to the human well-being and health of the planet.
March 10, 2022

Russia’s war in Ukraine: Why doubling down on the Green Deal is the best strategy

As EU leaders meet in Versaille, energy is set to be a key topic. But leaders must ensure that the decisions they make to break away from Russian energy push the EU in the direction of sustainability, argue European sustainability think tanks.