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Low Climate Stabilisation under Diverse Growth and Convergence Scenarios
(Basque Centre for Climate Change/Klima Aldaketa Ikergai, 2012-08-01)
In the last decade, a few papers have analysed the consequences of achieving the greenhouse gas concentration levels necessary to maintain global temperature increases below 2 degrees Celsius above preindustrial levels. ...
Long Run Trends in the Price of Energy and Energy Services
(Basque Centre for Climate Change/Klima Aldaketa Ikergai, 2011-11-10)
Energy prices have risen considerably since the beginning of the twenty-first century. It is valuable to place these price rises within a historical context. Many peaks preceded the price hike of 2008, and there will, no ...
Flood risk management: What are the main drivers of prevention?
(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 ...
Evaluating the role of energy efficiency labels in the prices of household appliances: the case of refrigerators
(Basque Centre for Climate Change/Klima Aldaketa Ikergai, 2011-04-28)
This article uses an statisticalmethod to estimate the price premium paid for the highest energy-efficiency label (A+) in the refrigerators market of the Basque Autonomous Community (Spain). The estimated figure is 8.9% ...
The long road of climate negotiations: From Kyoto to Paris stopping over in Doha
(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) ...
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 ...
Lessons from History for Transitions to a Low Carbon Economy
(Basque Centre for Climate Change/Klima Aldaketa Ikergai, 2011-01-25)
Historical experiences can provide lessons for future transitions to a low carbon economy. Although often considered a single event, the transition from traditional energy sources to fossil fuels in the United Kingdom ...
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 ...
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 ...
The basque ecological debt: global socioecological impacts of a small open economy
(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 ...