With shifting definitions of climate emergency, increasing tension between advocates and deniers, and blurring of climate curricular boundaries, this panel seeks to understand what constitutes an education in 2025 for understanding, addressing, and living with climate change. Drawing perspectives...
Interested in learning more about sustainability? Our events listing and featured events provides plenty of opportunities to get involved in sustainability, both on-and-off campus. If you are looking to highlight your sustainability event on campus, please visit UBC Events and tag your submission "sustainability" related.
Climate Change & Energy
Human Well-being & Social Systems
Join us for a public talk with John Vaillant, Lori Daniels, and Suzanne Simard on the new wildfire reality facing urban BC.
Climate Justice is a business responsibility
Climate Change & Energy
Production, Consumption & Waste
Let’s get Rootbound: Grace Nosek on the Power of Climate Fiction and Art
Climate Change & Energy
Human Well-being & Social Systems
SDG Month Canada
Climate Change & Energy
Ecological Systems
Human Well-being & Social Systems
Policy, Economics & Governance
Climate Emergency Week
Climate Emergency week at UBC seeks to convene and energize communities of climate action at UBC. Join our events, workshops and activities, and take collective action for justice, people, and our planet.
UBC Reads Sustainability
Part book club, part lecture series, and part opportunity to learn beyond the classroom. UBC Reads Sustainability is a forum for students across disciplines to discuss sustainability issues.
SDG Month Canada
SDG Month Canada is a national collaboration featuring workshops, panels, and other interactive programming to increase awareness of and engagement with the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) on university and college campuses.
Climate Justice Series
In response to the focus on climate justice as part of UBC’s Declaration of a Climate Emergency and recommendations from its Climate Emergency Task Force (CETF) Report the UBC Sustainability Initiative launched the Climate Justice Series, featuring sessions that examine climate justice from various perspectives, locally and globally.
Events by Date
When:
Thursday, March 27, 2025 - 11:00 to 12:00
Location:
Online / Virtual Event
What is the role of businesses in working towards climate justice? This expert panel will discuss the opportunities, constraints and responsibilities that corporations have in adapting their business practices to address the unequal impacts of climate change, considering their different emissions...
When:
Thursday, April 3, 2025 - 12:30 to 14:00
Location:
BC Hydro Theatre, Centre for Interactive Research on Sustainability
Join us for a public talk with John Vaillant, Lori Daniels, and Suzanne Simard on the new wildfire reality facing urban BC.
When:
Thursday, April 3, 2025 - 18:00 to 20:00
Location:
Centre for Interactive Research on Sustainability
Past Events
Join us in person or online for an exciting conversation with Grace Nosek about her book, Rootbound, and the unique role that climate fiction and art can play in empowering youth and driving climate action. Climate fiction and art are powerful tools to advocate for environmental justice and...
When:
Thursday, March 20, 2025 - 12:00 to 14:00
Location:
Centre for Interactive Research on Sustainability (CIRS)
Join us in person or online for an exciting conversation with Grace Nosek about her book, Rootbound, and the unique role that climate fiction and art can play in empowering youth and driving climate action.
When:
Thursday, March 20, 2025 - 12:00 to 14:00
Location:
BC Hydro Theatre, Centre for Interactive Research on Sustainability
The BIG Research day is an annual tradition of B ioinformatics, I nterdisciplinary Oncology and G enome Science + Technology graduate programs at the University of British Columbia and Simon Fraser University. Over 100 graduate students from all three programs gather to present their research...
When:
Thursday, March 20, 2025 - 00:00 to 23:59
Location:
Life Sciences Centre
Crystal Hall (University of Washington) will be sharing research from her new book, Antiracist by Design : Behavioral science has been celebrated as a field whose insights can help design a better world, but its color-blind approach has often perpetuated unjust systems. A more equitable approach...
When:
Friday, March 14, 2025 - 13:00 to 14:30
Location:
Hybrid Online/Virtual and In-Person – See Description
Speaker: Dr. Alyssa Gehman, Adjunct Faculty Member, Hakai Institute Parasites and pathogens are ubiquitous and can alter host response to environmental stressors, such as host thermal tolerance levels. This talk will explore how parasites and pathogens interact with marine crabs, hermit crabs and...
When:
Friday, March 14, 2025 - 11:00 to 12:00
Location:
Aquatic Ecosystems Research Laboratory (AERL)
The UBC Indigenous Science Colloquium presents a conversation with Dr. Salena Hill, a member of the Apsáalooke (Crow) and Amaskapi Pikuni (Blackfeet) Tribal Nations and Assistant Professor in the Doctoral Program of Leadership Studies. She holds a Ph.D. in Counselor Education and Supervision from...
When:
Wednesday, March 12, 2025 - 17:30 to 19:30
Location:
Aquatic Ecosystems Research Laboratory (AERL)
This expert panel will explore approaches to integrating the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) into business school curricula, equipping future leaders with the knowledge and skills to build a more sustainable future. Join us for a dynamic discussion on the challenges, opportunities, and best...
When:
Thursday, March 6, 2025 - 11:00 to 12:30
Location:
Online/Virtual Event
This expert panel will explore different approaches to integrating the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) into business school curricula, equipping future leaders with the knowledge and skills to build a more sustainable future. Join us for a dynamic discussion on the challenges, opportunities,...
When:
Thursday, March 6, 2025 - 11:00 to 12:30
Location:
Online / Virtual Event
Four short talks. Four distinguished speakers working at the intersection of disciplines. Dr. annie ross (Indigenous Studies, Art), Dr. Helmut Weissert (Earth Sciences), Laurie D. Graham (Literature), and Dr. Derek Pardue (Global Studies, Anthropology). The event will be hosted by Green College’s...
When:
Wednesday, March 5, 2025 - 17:00 to 18:30
Location:
Green College
Join us in-person or online for the opening event of UBC’s Sustainable Development Goals Month – a conversation with Sundance Chief and author Rueben George about his bestselling book, It Stops Here: Standing Up For Our Lands, Our Waters and Our People , moderated by UBC Associate Professor...
When:
Monday, March 3, 2025 - 17:00 to 19:30
Location:
Centre for Interactive Research on Sustainability (CIRS)