Humans are taking colossal risks with the future of civilization and everything that lives on Earth, a new study published in the journal Nature shows. Developed by an international science commission engaging more than 40 researchers from across the globe, the scientists deliver the first quantification of safe and just Earth system boundaries on a global and local level for several biophysical processes and systems that regulate the state of the Earth system.

Humans are taking colossal risks with the future of civilization and everything that lives on Earth, a new study published in the journal Nature shows. Developed by an international science commission engaging more than 40 researchers from across the globe, the scientists deliver the first quantification of safe and just Earth system boundaries on a global and local level for several biophysical processes and systems that regulate the state of the Earth system.

La comunidad científica lleva tiempo preguntándose cómo cambió el clima de nuestro planeta hace 700.000 años, pasando de ciclos climáticos de 40.000 años de duración a los actuales de 100.000 años. Un nuevo estudio internacional publicado en la prestigiosa revista Nature Communications y en el que participa BC3 identifica un periodo glaciar “cálido” que habría permitido la acumulación de hielo necesaria para esta importante transición.

A new study from a global team, including, among others, the Basque Centre for Climate Change, Imperial College London, and the National Technical University of Athens, demonstrates that aggregating together all updated short- and long-term climate pledges is compatible with the Paris goal of limiting global temperature increase well-below 2°C.

Anthropogenic climate change and the intensive use and destruction of natural ecosystems that underpin global biodiversity loss continue to worsen. In this regard, the climate crisis and biodiversity crisis are often viewed as two separate catastrophes. An international team of researchers call for adopting a new perspective

Al igual que en los últimos años, el Observatorio de la Transición Energética y la Acción Climática (OTEA), una iniciativa de BC3, lanza el Informe Anual OTEA. En este documento se recoge la evolución de distintos indicadores relacionados con el clima y la energía del año pasado, así como sus implicaciones en la economía y la sociedad.

Most local authorities are not considering the needs of vulnerable people sufficiently when planning for climate change, according to a study of more than 300 European cities.

Con motivo de la semana de la pobreza energética, un equipo investigador del Observatorio de la Transición Energética y la Acción Climática (OTEA) de BC3 ha publicado un estudio pionero que formula una serie de indicadores para cuantificar la pobreza relacionada con el transporte en España.

Research conducted by a group of researchers at the Basque Centre for Climate Change (BC3) and the University of Almería, Sean Goodwin (BC3 and the University of Almería), Marta Olazabal (BC3 and Ikerbasque), Antonio J. Castro (University of Almería), and Unai Pascual (BC3 and Ikerbasque), published in Nature Sustainability, identifies critical pathways for making progress on the application of nature-based solutions to climate change adaptation in cities. The study uses data from 216 projects implemented in 130 cities worldwide.

BC3 researcher Ainhoa Magrach has been granted a prestigious European Research Council (ERC) Consolidator Grant to implement her project, “GorBEEa, Understanding biodiversity-ecosystem function and biodiversity-stability relationships across spatial and organizational scales”.