BC3 BASQUE CENTRE FOR CLIMATE CHANGE - KLIMA ALDAKETA IKERGAI

EU Legislative Interests

EU Trade Policy Green Deal EU Biodiversity Strategy EU Adaptation Strategy EU Farm to Fork EU NDC and LTS 2050 Next Generation EU EU MIssions Adaptation, Soils and Cities

Communication Activities

BC3 has been leading the development of microeconomic tool to analyse the social impacts of the new Energy Taxation Directive, the extension of the Emissions Trading System (ETS2) on road transport and buildings and the new Social Climate Fund (SCF) proposed by the European Commission in the context of the Fit for 55 package. This work is part of a project developed jointly with Think2030, a non-partisan platform of leading European think tanks, and funded by LAUDES Foundation. BC3 is also part of Task-force FIDELIO model (JRC, BC3, CMCC, CESAR) STARTER (2024-26) This project Funded by the European Observation Network for Territorial Development and Cohesion has the mission of analysing future scenarios dedicated to the European Critical Raw Materials Act (ECRMA) and minimum one extended scenario configuration, deriving from other OSA-related policies for regional policy recommendations. ESGAP 2 (2024) Tender with the European Environment Agency (EEA). The European Green Deal has sparked a significant shift in environmental policy towards a more holistic and systemic approach to sustainability. This has paved the way for multiple lines of work at the EEA to monitor and assess sustainability transitions in Europe to support policy formulation and implementation. In this context, this project is part of the ongoing development of EEA’s capacity to build a framework for transitions monitoring for SOER 2025 and 2030.

Interests Represented

Does not represent commercial interests

Member Of

Some of the key networks or associations: - Think Sustainable Europe Network: https://ieep.eu/news/think-sustainable-europe - SOMM Aliance: https://www.somma.es/about/centres-and-units/basque-centre-for-climate-change-bc3/ - EAERE: https://www.eaere.org/institutional-membership/ - Observer NGO at UNFCCC - IPAM - The International Platform on Adaptation Metrics (IPAM) is intended to help networking all the dedicated institutions and teams working on adaptation evaluation and metrics, to compare results and create synergies, and to advance science and technologies. https://www.adaptationmetrics.org/ - Individually employees of BC3, are members/authors of IPCC expert groups/Task forces Bureaus

Organisation Members

The BC3 Basque Centre for Climate Change – Klima Aldaketa Ikergai was established as a non-profit association, on the 17th of April 2008. The associate members are: - IHOBE: The public agency for Environment of the Basque Government - UPV/EHU: The University of the Basque Country - IKERBASQUE: the Basque Foundation for Science More information at: https://www.bc3research.org/organization.html

Additional Information

(1)The amortization of the infrastructures is not included in the budget, either Financial expenditures (2) The information on the amount per contributor is provided following the guidelines. The amount per contributor reflects the sum of all the grants received (financed expenditures and investment in the year) from that contributor being the most of them competitive funding. (3) EU GRANTs are also included by programs, such as, INTERREG, LIFE, H2020... We don't reflect the grant agreement amount but the annual expenditure/income justified and audited. (4) The current financial year 2025 is not closed yet so the numbers are just an estimation as per the closure of march 2025. (5) Total budget is bigger than the declared contributors because the rest of contributions are lower than the 10% of the bugget