Impact
November 1, 2021
The United Nations Climate Change Conference COP26, organised by the United Kingdom in collaboration with Italy from 31 October to 12 November 2021 at the Scottish Event Campus (SEC) in Glasgow (United Kingdom) has as one of the key objectives to review the progress and current state of the Paris Agreement. In addition, as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, COP26 offers the opportunity to be the platform for rebuilding local and global economies and establishing a sustainable path to recovery.
June 21, 2021
In a new collaborative paper led by Marta Olazabal and published in One Earth, the authors argue that historically marginalized and subaltern forms of local knowledge must be considered in combination with technocratic top-down approaches to climate knowledge production.
May 20, 2021
Las investigadoras de BC3 Basque Centre for Climate Change - Klima Aldaketa Ikergai, Aline Chiabai, y Marta Olazabal, han participado respectivamente en los ejes de Cambio Climático y de Urbanización, para la redacción del informe "Fundamentos y propuestas para una Estrategia Nacional de Largo Plazo"
May 17, 2021
The global environmental crisis calls for transformative approaches to sustainability. Nature-based Solutions (NbS) have great resonance in science and practice, but their ability to bring about transformative change has not been assessed. A new publication in One Earth provides evidence that NbS can contribute to transformative change towards sustainable trajectories.
February 15, 2021
Forest Carbon Credits: Separating the “good” from the merely “good enough” new discussion paper published at WWF by Naikoa Aguilar-Amuchastegui (Senior Director Forest Carbon Science, WWD-US), Jason M. Funk (Principal & Funder at Land Use & Climate Knowledge Initiative) and María José Sanz (BC3 - Basque Centre for Climate Change Director).
December 7, 2020
Recent assessment reports by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) have highlighted the risks to humanity arising from the unsustainable use of natural resources.
October 26, 2020
Cities are projected to hold two-thirds of the world’s population by 2050 under a period of intensifying climate change. Ensuring sustainable, climate-resilient, and equitable cities will require moving beyond incremental adaptation to transformative adaptation. What does transformative adaptation mean for cities, and how can it be achieved, particularly in cities with low adaptive capacity?
September 28, 2020
Ibon Galarraga and Elisa Sainz de Murieta, researchers from the multidisciplinary centre BC3 - Basque Centre for Climate Change, have participated in and edited the latest special edition of Ekonomiaz, that addresses adaptation to climate change in ten different articles
September 16, 2020
BC3 - Basque Centre for Climate Change participates at the 2020 European Mobility Week. Since 2002, EUROPEANMOBILITYWEEK has sought to improve public health and quality of life through promoting clean mobility and sustainable urban transport. The campaign gives people the chance to explore the role of city streets and to experiment with practical solutions to tackle urban challenges, such as air pollution. BC3 as an interdisciplinary research centre on the causes and consequences of climate change takes the opportunity to show the research that we are doing to understand the impact of mobility in the climate emergency.
September 15, 2020
The latest article by Elena Galán de Castillo, researcher at the multidisciplinary centre BC3 - Basque Centre for Climate Change, published in Mundo Ganadero summarizes the results and consequences on the effects of moving from two milkings per day to one in small ruminants
