Search Climate Insights Directory

The BC3 Basque Centre for Climate Change's annual accounts for 2025 were audited by Forvis Mazars Auditores, S.L.P., which issued an unqualified opinion stating the accounts provide a 'true and fair view' of the entity's financial state. The center reported total income from its own activities of 8,326,518.02 euros, primarily driven by subsidies. The audit highlighted the recognition of these subsidies as a key risk area due to their materiality. The center maintains a diverse workforce of 143 people, including 123 researchers, and achieved significant academic output, including 118 articles in indexed journals. Financially, the entity is exempt from corporate tax on its social purpose activities and reported a total result for the year of 108,996.37 euros.

The independent audit by Mazars Auditores, S.L.P. concludes that the annual accounts of the BC3 Basque Centre for Climate Change for the year ending December 31, 2023, provide a true and fair view of its assets and financial situation. The entity reported a total asset value of 19,300,522.78 euros and a net result for the exercise of 22,399.39 euros. A significant portion of its funding comes from public and private subsidies, with 6.7 million euros recorded as income from its own activity in the profit and loss account for 2023. The audit specifically focused on the recognition of these subsidies due to their materiality. The center's primary activities include interdisciplinary research on climate change, high-level training, and knowledge transfer, based at the UPV/EHU campus in Leioa, Bizkaia.

The 2022 annual accounts for the BC3 Basque Centre for Climate Change, audited by Mazars Auditores, S.L.P., show a positive financial result of 3,831.41 euros. The center's activities focus on interdisciplinary climate change research, high-level training, and knowledge transfer, primarily based in Leioa, Bizkaia. Total assets as of December 31, 2022, were 19,415,317.09 euros, with significant funding coming from public and private grants, totaling 4.9 million euros recorded in the profit and loss account for the period. The audit opinion states that the accounts provide a 'true and fair view' of the entity's equity and financial situation.

The Basque Centre for Climate Change (BC3) reports a financial result for 2021 of 554.92 euros, compared to 3,365.60 euros in 2020. The centre's primary activities include interdisciplinary research on the causes and consequences of climate change, high-level training, and knowledge transfer. Its 2021 operations were impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic, leading to the cancellation of travel and conferences, and later by the geopolitical crisis following the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Financially, the centre relies heavily on public subsidies, with significant funding from the European Commission, the Basque Government, and the Ikerbasque Foundation. As of December 31, 2021, the centre employed 91 people, including 79 researchers.

The 2019 annual accounts for the BC3 Basque Centre for Climate Change were audited by MAZARS Auditores, S.L.P., who issued an unqualified opinion stating the accounts provide a 'true and fair view' of the entity's financial position. The center's primary funding comes from public subsidies, with 3,887,613.08 Euros recorded as subsidies, donations, and legacies imputed to the 2019 results. The report details expenditures on personnel (2,816,633.87 Euros) and external services (1,202,957.08 Euros), while noting that the entity is exempt from corporate tax on activities fulfilling its social purpose. The document also acknowledges the potential future impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the center's activities.

The document provides a financial audit and summary of the 2018 annual accounts for the BC3 Basque Centre for Climate Change, confirming that the financial statements provide a true and fair view of the entity's assets and financial position. It details the center's funding through public subsidies, its operational expenses, and its core activities in climate change research, education, and knowledge transfer.

The document is an independent audit report and financial statement for the Asociación BC3 Basque Centre for Climate Change for the 2017 fiscal year. The auditor, MAZARS Auditores, S.L.P., issued an unqualified opinion, stating that the accounts provide a 'true and fair view' of the entity's financial position. The center's activities focus on interdisciplinary climate change research, high-level training, and knowledge transfer. Financially, the entity relies heavily on public subsidies, recording 3,074,214.81 Euros in subsidies, donations, and legacies for the 2017 period. The report includes a detailed balance sheet, profit and loss account, and an inventory of intangible and material assets, such as software and office equipment. It also notes that the association is exempt from Corporate Tax due to its social purpose.

The document outlines expected climate impacts in the Basque Country, including rising temperatures, sea-level rise, and altered precipitation, which threaten public health through heat waves, flooding, and increased pollutants. It identifies 26 adaptation measures, highlighting the cost-effectiveness and co-benefits of ecosystem-based solutions like Sustainable Urban Drainage Systems (SUDS) and behavioral changes in transport.

The document emphasizes that urban sustainability is not merely a technological challenge but involves power relations, culture, and social values. It advocates for the use of participatory methods to integrate the 'cognitive dimension'—the knowledge, perceptions, and values of diverse stakeholders—to identify barriers and opportunities in energy transitions. Using a Fuzzy Cognitive Mapping (FCM) study in Bilbao, the authors demonstrate that social initiatives and changes in lifestyle yield superior results in reducing emissions and improving quality of life compared to purely economic or institutional measures.

The research introduces a modelling framework combining the NGAUGE field-scale model and a new LANDDAIRY farm-scale submodel to quantify greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from Basque dairy farms. A case study of 17 farms in Bizkaia found mean total GHG emissions of 385 ± 175 t CO2-eq yr-1, with emissions per litre of energy-corrected milk ranging from 0.86 to 2.11 kg CO2-eq. The study identifies methane from enteric fermentation and emissions from purchased feed as the primary contributors to the carbon footprint, suggesting that purchased feed can serve as a proxy for estimating total farm emissions.