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Begiak erne: klima aldaketa arintzeari buruzko IPCC-ren txostena
(Basque Centre for Climate Change/Klima Aldaketa Ikergai, 2014-05-13)Despite the proliferation of climate change plans and strategies, global emissions have accelerated over the last decade. *If the present trends continue, temperatures will have risen between 3.7 and 4.3ºC by the end of ... -
Breaking the 400 ppm barrier: Physical and Social implications of the recent CO2 rise
(Basque Centre for Climate Change/Klima Aldaketa Ikergai, 2013-12-20)The concentration of carbon dioxide (CO2) in the atmosphere has achieved its highest levels in the last 800,000 years, and probably even in the last 2.1 million years, recently topping briefly the atmospheric concentration ... -
Bridging Science and Policy to Mitigate and Adapt Cities to Climate Change: Challenges and Opportunities in the Context of the Basque Declaration
(Basque Centre for Climate Change/Klima Aldaketa Ikergai, 2016-05)A reduction in emissions and the adaptation of cities to climate change is a key point in the Basque Declaration-The potential of science making a valuable contribution to urban climate objectives-Possible divergence of ... -
Budget-Neutral Financing to Unlock Energy Savings Potential: An Analysis of the ESCO Model in Barcelona
(Basque Centre for Climate Change/Klima Aldaketa Ikergai, 2013-01-01)The objective of this article is to introduce an increasingly popular business model known as the Energy Service Company (ESCO) model and bring to light the principal barriers to its widespread implementation both ... -
Carbon leakage and the future of Old Industrial Regions
(Basque Centre for Climate Change/Klima Aldaketa Ikergai, 2010-08-07)CO2 prices will continue to differ from one country to another even if a global post-Kyoto agreement is achieved. This may decrease the competitiveness of some industries. One of most exposed industries in Europe is iron ... -
Carbon leakage and the future of Old Industrial Regions after Copenhagen
(Basque Centre for Climate Change/Klima Aldaketa Ikergai, 2010-03-03)CO2 prices will continue to differ from one country to another for a long time, even if a global post-Kyoto agreement is achieved in the near future. The non-homogeneous nature of climate policies may decrease the ... -
Classifying Ecosystem Services for Economic Valuation: The case of forest water services
(Basque Centre for Climate Change/Klima Aldaketa Ikergai, 2010-09-13)Since the release of the Millennium Ecosystem Approach (MEA), the number of studies valuing ecosystem services has grown. As a consequence of this growing literature, different interpretations exist on the classification ... -
Climate Change and Its Socioeconomic Importance
(Basque Centre for Climate Change/Klima Aldaketa Ikergai, 2009-10-21)Climate change has played an increasingly key role in recent years and is now one of the leading political priorities worldwide. This article illustrates the scope of the problem, its causes and its impacts, along with the ... -
Climate Change and Knowledge Communities
(Basque Centre for Climate Change/Klima Aldaketa Ikergai, 2009-10-13)Climate change is a global problem whose particular characteristics mean that public-sector policy is fundamental in tackling it: a public-sector policy implemented world-wide that requires the co-operation of a large ... -
Climate change impacts on the water services in Costa Rica: a production function for the hydroenergy sector
(Basque Centre for Climate Change/Klima Aldaketa Ikergai, 2013-04-01)The case study presented in this section aims to estimate the economic value of the water services used for hydropower in tropical forests in Costa Rica, and to assess the expected economic impact due to climate change. ... -
Climate Change in the Basque Country: Impact on Health and Adaptation measures
(Basque Centre for Climate Change/Klima Aldaketa Ikergai, 2016-06)The adaptation to climate change must involve free-flowing dialogue between the different sectors in society -Specific adaptation measures can also lead to an improvement in health and resilience of the population -There ... -
Climate Change, Responsibilities, and Defeatism and Complacency
(Basque Centre for Climate Change/Klima Aldaketa Ikergai, 2011-12-12)Paradoxically, knowledge of the increasing certainty about climate change, and of the severe consequences of this phenomenon for large portions of the world population, may lead individuals and communities to fall into a ... -
Climate Risk Assessment under Uncertainty: An Application to Main European Coastal Cities
(Frontiers in Marine Science, 2016-12-16)This paper analyses the risk of extreme coastal events in major European coastal cities using a stochastic diffusion model that is calibrated with the worst case emission scenario from the Intergovernmental Panel for Climate ... -
Competing Ecosystem Services: an Assessment of Carbon and Timber in the Tropical Forests of Central America
(Basque Centre for Climate Change/Klima Aldaketa Ikergai, 2010-10-07)The Millennium Ecosystem Assessment (MEA 2005) has classified a number of ecosystems good and services (EGS) provided by tropical forests, namely cultural, provisioning, regulatory and support services. The primary focus ... -
Competing Ecosystem services: an Assessment of Carbon and timber in the Tropical forests of Central America
(Basque Centre for Climate Change/Klima Aldaketa Ikergai, 2011-01-12)The study provides a quantitative appraisal of the carbon and timber stocks and flows of tropical (primary) forests by evaluating them simultaneously using data (physical and economical) from a number of sources. The ... -
Competitividad y fuga de carbono: el caso de la economía vasca
(Basque Centre for Climate Change/Klima Aldaketa Ikergai, 2010-07-07)El cambio climático y la elevada dependencia de las energías fósiles hacen necesario avanzar hacia una economía baja en carbono. Un futuro sin “carbono” supone una revolución energética y económica sin precedentes que ... -
Cost effectiveness of a combination of instruments for global warming: a quantitative approach for Spain
(Basque Centre for Climate Change/Klima Aldaketa Ikergai, 2011-04-28)There is a considerable body of research about the use and design of market instruments for mitigating greenhouse gas emissions. However, discussion of the combination of instruments and their possible interactions is in ... -
La Cumbre de Varsovia: “Pequeños avances en espera de decisiones de envergadura en la Cumbre de Paris 2015”
(Basque Centre for Climate Change/Klima Aldaketa Ikergai, 2013-12-20)Consensus was reached on the text on which the future global agreement in Paris 2015 on cutting emissions will be based. The countries will have to explain by means of biannual reports from 2014 onwards how they are going ... -
Decarbonising urban transportation
(Basque Centre for Climate Change/Klima Aldaketa Ikergai, 2013-12-13)The transportation sector is a major contributor to global greenhouse gas emissions, accounting for around one-quarter of current annual emissions. Surface transportation (passenger vehicles, buses, rail, and freight ... -
Development of a new modelling framework to estimate the C footprint from Basque dairy farms
(Basque Centre for Climate Change/Klima Aldaketa Ikergai, 2013-01-01)There is world-wide concern for the contribution of dairy farming to global warming. However, there is still a need to improve the quantification of the C-footprint of dairy farming systems under different production systems ...