News
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.
May 6, 2019
Unai Pascual has been a member of the IPBES Global Assessment Management Committee and is one of the lead authors of the report, as the only Spanish lead author. The report is the first global assessment systematically covering the scientific research of the past 50 years and the knowhow of indigenous and local communities based on some 15,000 studies prepared by 145 world-renowned authors of scientific prestige from 50 different countries.
May 6, 2019
La directora científica de BC3, María José Sanz, participa en el proyecto "¿Por qué tan pocas?: Tecnólogas y científicas a la luz" con el objetivo de visibilizar el papel de las mujeres españolas en el campo de la tecnología y la ciencia a través de materiales audiovisuales orientados a crear nuevos referentes femeninos en este ámbito para las niñas, adolescentes y jóvenes (también entre niños, adolescentes y jóvenes varones).
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 15, 2019
BC3 Scientific Director, María José Sanz, participate as co-chair, at the GFOI Plenary 2019 held in Maputo, Mozambique, from 8-11 April 2019. The objective of the The Global Forest Observations Initiative (GFOI) is an informal partnership to coordinate international support to developing countries on forest monitoring and MRV procedures for REDD+ and related activities. Through collaborative action, GFOI aims to provide a larger and more targeted package of support than any one partner can provide alone.
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.
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.
