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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. ...
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) ...
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 ...
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 ...
Evaluating the role of energy efficiency labels: the case of Dish Washers
(Basque Centre for Climate Change/Klima Aldaketa Ikergai, 2010-09-23)
This article uses the hedonic approach to estimate how much is paid for energy efficiency in the dishwasher market in Spain. The estimations suggest that 15.6% of the final price is paid for the characteristic represented ...
The Cancun Climate Summit: a Moderate Success
(Basque Centre for Climate Change/Klima Aldaketa Ikergai, 2011-01-14)
The Cancun Summit started with the conviction that a binding agreement would not be possible and with significantly lower expectations than the previous summit in Copenhagen. If the outcome of the summit had to be defined, ...
Urban research at BC3: How climate change science can support urban policy making
(Basque Centre for Climate Change/Klima Aldaketa Ikergai, 2016-06)
Cities are becoming key actors to successfully achieve climate change mitigation and adaptation objectives. . -Science can play a crucial role in supporting local decision-makers by providing top level information and ...
Environmental fiscal reform and unemployment in Spain in the presence of an informal sector
(Basque Centre for Climate Change/Klima Aldaketa Ikergai, 2012-10-26)
This policy briefing reports the results obtained in two recent papers (Markandya et al 2012 and Gonzalez-Eguino et al 2012) where the role of Enviromental Fiscal Reform (EFR) is revisited for the case of Spain. We analyse ...
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 ...
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 ...