Now showing items 37-40 of 50

    • Thumbnail

      Alternative trajectories for decarbonizing urban transportation 

      Spadaro, Joseph V.; Faria, S. H.; Markandya, Anil (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 ...
    • Thumbnail

      Flood risk management: What are the main drivers of prevention? 

      Foudi, Sébastien (Basque Centre for Climate Change/Klima Aldaketa Ikergai, 2013-04-16)
      In a changing and unstable climate, climatic flood risk will increase: more intense and more extreme events would be more frequent. Higher climatic risk will turn into higher socio-economic risk, unless we implement ...
    • Thumbnail

      The long road of climate negotiations: From Kyoto to Paris stopping over in Doha 

      Markandya, Anil; Unai Pascual (Basque Centre for Climate Change/Klima Aldaketa Ikergai, 2013-02-05)
      Expectations about the COP18 Doha round of climate negotiations were low and countries were successful in making some progress, but only incrementally. A second commitment period (from 1 January 2013 to 31 December 2020) ...
    • Thumbnail

      The basque ecological debt: global socioecological impacts of a small open economy 

      Garmendia Oleaga, Eneko; Arto Olaizola, Ignacio (Basque Centre for Climate Change/Klima Aldaketa Ikergai, 2013-08-08)
      Globalisation of the world economy has increased the material and en-ergy flows around the planet raising the pressure over the environment. In this context, it becomes critical to better understand the links between current ...