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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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Effects of Climate Change on the European Nuclear Power Sector
(Basque Centre for Climate Change/Klima Aldaketa Ikergai, 2010-09-23)
Anthropogenic emissions of greenhouse gases cause climate change and this change in turn induces various direct impacts, e.g., changes in regional weather patterns. The frequency of heat waves and droughts in Europe is ...
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 ...
Economic Valuation of Ecosystem Services: Conflicts in Classification
(Basque Centre for Climate Change/Klima Aldaketa Ikergai, 2011-01-14)
Since the release of the Millennium Ecosystem Approach (MA), studies valuing ecosystem services have grown in the literature. As a consequence, different interpretations exist on the classification of services, and several ...
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, ...
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 ...
The past, present and future of the sea level in the Basque Country
(Basque Centre for Climate Change/Klima Aldaketa Ikergai, 2016-05)
The sea level has significantly changed throughout the Earth's history. -120,000 years ago, during the earlier interglacial period, the sea level was 4.5 m higher than the current mean level in Bilbao. -The sea level rose ...
La verdadera pérdida causada por las políticas de compensación de la biodiversidad
(Basque Centre for Climate Change/Klima Aldaketa Ikergai, 2015-12)
•Los ecosistemas son sistemas complejos irremplazables •Los ecosistemas tienen valores ecológicos, instrumentales y no instrumentales •Existen perdidas ecológicas, normativas y morales que no se consideran en las políticas ...