Browsing BC3 Policy Briefings by Issue Date
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Alternative trajectories for decarbonizing urban transportation
(Basque Centre for Climate Change/Klima Aldaketa Ikergai, 2013-11-21)The transportation sector is a major contributor to global greenhouse gas emissions, accounting for one-quarter (?7 Gt CO2) of present day annual releases, 75% of which come from road transportation. *Unless there is a ... -
Effects of international trade of food and feed and human diet shifts on food security and environmental safety: integrating scales
(Basque Centre for Climate Change/Klima Aldaketa Ikergai, 2013-12-16)*International trade of food and feed (expressed as protein content) has increased eightfold during the last 50 years. Nowadays a small number of countries are feeding the rest of the world. Population growth but also a ... -
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 ... -
Warsaw Conference: “Small steps forward while awaiting major decisions at the 2015 Paris Conference”
(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 ... -
400 ppm-ko langa hautsi da: CO2-kontzentrazioaren igoeraren ondorio fisiko eta sozialak
(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 ... -
Rompiendo la barrera de las 400 ppm: implicaciones físicas y sociales del reciente aumento de CO2
(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 ... -
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 ... -
Discounting the value of natural resources in costbenefit analysis: a case study for policy making
(Basque Centre for Climate Change/Klima Aldaketa Ikergai, 2014-04-10)The issue of discounting (i.e. how future cost and benefits are valued today) plays a major role in policies with long-term effects on the natural environment, such as those required in a climate change context, or decisions ... -
IPPC-ren II. lan-taldearen bosgarren ebaluazio txostena (AR5): egokitzerako konponbideeremua zabaltzen
(Basque Centre for Climate Change/Klima Aldaketa Ikergai, 2014-04-25)The IPCC Report shows increasing confidence of current impacts of anthropogenic climate change, including migration of species in oceans and diminishing crop yields. *Adaptation is widely occurring and has become the central ... -
Quinto informe de evaluación (AR5) del GT-II del IPPC: aumentando el espacio de las soluciones para la adaptación
(Basque Centre for Climate Change/Klima Aldaketa Ikergai, 2014-04-25)The IPCC Report shows increasing confidence of current impacts of anthropogenic climate change, including migration of species in oceans and diminishing crop yields. *Adaptation is widely occurring and has become the central ... -
IPCC WGII Fifth Assessment Report (AR5): Expanding the solution space for adaptation
(Basque Centre for Climate Change/Klima Aldaketa Ikergai, 2014-04-25)The IPCC Report shows increasing confidence of current impacts of anthropogenic climate change, including migration of species in oceans and diminishing crop yields. *Adaptation is widely occurring and has become the central ... -
The adoption of ecosystem-based adaptation in the international climate agenda
(Basque Centre for Climate Change/Klima Aldaketa Ikergai, 2014-05-02)There is a growing recognition of the role that healthy ecosystems play in helping people to adapt to climate change through the delivery of ecosystem services. • Ecosystem-based Adaptation promotes the sustainable use of ... -
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 ... -
Aviso a navegantes: informe del IPCC sobre mitigación del cambio climático
(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 ... -
Warning to navigators: IPCC report on climate change mitigation
(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 ... -
Ingredientes de una transición sostenible hacia una ciudad baja en carbono
(Basque Centre for Climate Change/Klima Aldaketa Ikergai, 2014-06-16)En las ciudades, los procesos de transformación hacia la sostenibilidad no son un mero problema de desarrollo tecnológico, sino también de política, relaciones de poder, economía, cultura y de los sistemas de valores ... -
Is the current EU climate instrument mix adequate?
(Basque Centre for Climate Change/Klima Aldaketa Ikergai, 2014-09-24)The EU is on track to meet the 2020 targets for greenhouse gas emissions reduction and renewable energy. However, climate policies have not been the main drivers of emission reductions but the economic crisis. *The price ... -
Lima COP20: Another small step on the long road to Paris
(Basque Centre for Climate Change/Klima Aldaketa Ikergai, 2015-01)The Lima summit was not expected to achieve specific agreements on the reduction of emissions, but to establish the bases of a legal document to be agreed on at the next meeting in Paris (December 2015) and of the Intended ... -
Modelling ecosystem services trade-offs in agricultural systems
(Basque Centre for Climate Change/Klima Aldaketa Ikergai, 2015-02)*Agriculture is a source of provisioning, regulating and cultural ecosystem services, and depends on them to function. *Reducing negative trade-offs and identifying potential synergies between ecosystem services demands a ... -
Under what conditions is the bioethanol and biodiesel produced entirely in the Basque Country sustainable?
(Basque Centre for Climate Change/Klima Aldaketa Ikergai, 2015-05)*The process of agricultural production, and especially anything related to the management of fertilisation, largely determines the uncertainty in the estimation of the different environmental impact of biofuel production. ...