Ihobe is marking the International Day of Climate Action on Friday 24 October by reaffirming its commitment to climate action by showcasing the climate adaptation projects that it is leading in the Basque Country.
One year after the Pyrenees4Clima project got underway, European Commission representatives have visited several of its pilot studies in the Aragonese and French Pyrenees; the goal was to discover first-hand how the climate change adaptation measures are being rolled out in the territory.
Today, the COP30 Climate Summit, organised by the United Nations, gets underway in Belém, Brazil.
Can human societies and nature grow together? This is the question running through the new series produced by the BBC, the United Kingdom’s public service broadcaster that provides radio, television and internet services, and which is endorsed by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) This brand-new series Living Legacy explores how nature conservation and protection can help lower emissions, support economies and improve people’s lives.
The Basque Government – through Ihobe, its environmental management agency – has published the latest Basque Country’s Environmental Profile 2025, whose main theme is municipal solid waste. The report puts the Basque Country at the forefront of sustainable waste management and comes to a clear conclusion: we are increasingly recycling more and less is ending up in landfill.
Álava Provincial Government, Gamesa Gearbox - the company from Mungia -, the MATER Ecoactive Museum Boat in Pasaia, and the Mendizabal VET Centre in Vitoria-Gasteiz were the winning entries of the European Week for Waste Reduction 2025 that was held last November; they will represent the Basque Country in the initiative’s European final in June 2026.
Young people from the Central Denmark region and the Dutch province of Gelderland have taken part in a European meeting on governance, sustainability and youth participation held in the Basque Country. Delegations from both territories, along with young people from the Basque Country, have thus met to share experiences, reflect together and advance in new ways of youth involvement in the defining of public policies.
The Pyrenean Climate Change Observatory (OPCC) – a cross-border initiative of climate change territorial cooperation including the Basque Government – and the partners of the European LIFE SIP Pyrenees4Clima project have produced the first monograph on the Climate Risks i
The project was presented at the NATURANCE Finance Innovation Festival 2026 by the European Regions4 network as a benchmark for climate governance and urban adaptation.