Part of the Climate Justice Webinar Series Who does climate change impact most? Countries and peoples that are least responsible for causing climate change are the ones suffering most from its effects. Join UBC faculty, students, staff, and community leaders for an exploration of what climate...
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.
Human Well-being & Social Systems
Natural Resources
Join us at the xʷc̓ic̓əsəm Garden for an open conversation circle about climate justice and the essential role of Indigenous rights and relations with the land in addressing climate change.
Climate Justice is a business responsibility
Climate Change & Energy
Production, Consumption & Waste
Solutions Summit: Working Towards Climate Solutions
Climate Change & Energy
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.
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Past Events
WEBINAR: Resilience is the New Sustainability Over the past two decades, sustainability has been a growing trend in construction. For most consumers, this has primarily meant “green design.” Witnessing the effects of intensifying weather and natural disasters, owners, developers, insurers, lenders...
When:
Tuesday, February 23, 2021 - 12:30 to 13:30
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Online event
Clean Energy Research Centre Seminar - The Path and Opportunities Toward Hydrogen Energy Development
Mon, February 22, 2021 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM See description. [the_title] CERC Seminar The Path and Opportunities Toward Hydrogen Energy Development February 22, 2021 @ 3:00 PM Biography Hong Chen is Professor in Shanghai Advanced Institute of Finance (SAIF) at Shanghai Jiaotong University, where he...
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Monday, February 22, 2021 - 15:00
Mon, February 22, 2021 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM See description. Speaker: Dr. Hong Chen, Professor of Shanghai Jiaotong University Abstract: The hydrogen development faces four major challenges, or requires “Four Miracles”, as suggested by Dr. Steven Chu (the former Secretary of US DOE): (1) the hydrogen...
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Monday, February 22, 2021 - 15:00
Fri, February 19, 2021 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM UBC Vancouver Campus. 0. Time & Location Friday, February 19th 2021 12:00 PM-1:00 PM PST on Zoom About the Event Have you developed a new technology/innovation? Ever thought it would be interesting to support or be part of an early stage startup/company...
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Friday, February 19, 2021 - 12:00
Thu, February 18, 2021 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM See description. The traditional approach to conservation science is to observe and model the impacts of threats (logging, mining, fishing, climate change for example) on species and their habitats, publish a paper of the findings in a peer-reviewed journal...
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Thursday, February 18, 2021 - 12:00
Fri, February 12, 2021 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM See description. Calling all UBC staff and faculty: Are you interested in sustainability? Looking to make new connections and swap ideas with other like-minded employees who are advancing sustainability projects, large and small, in their campus workplaces...
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Friday, February 12, 2021 - 11:00
Fri, February 12, 2021 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM See description. Speaker: Dr. Andrés Cisneros-Montemayor, Research Associate Institute for the Oceans and Fisheries There is a lot of interest in the future oceans as a ‘Blue Economy’—socially equitable, environmentally sustainable, and economically viable...
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Friday, February 12, 2021 - 11:00
WEBINAR: Closing the Poop Loop: The Role of Ecological Sanitation as a Climate Change Solution Circular agriculture-sanitation systems capture and safely treat human waste and return the embodied organic matter and nutrients in excreta to agricultural soils. Closing this “poop loop” can contribute...
When:
Tuesday, February 9, 2021 - 12:30 to 13:30
Location:
Online event
MAPPING RACIAL GEOGRAPHIES OF VIOLENCE ON THE COLONIAL LANDSCAPE (Public talk by Dr. Ingrid Waldron)
Tue, February 9, 2021 12:30 PM - 2:00 PM ALLARD HALL (FACULTY OF LAW). FREE. Join us for a public talk by Dr. Ingrid Waldron on environmental racism and injustice in Canada. Dr. Waldron will examine the social justice dimensions of race, place, and space in the Indigenous and Black communities in...
When:
Tuesday, February 9, 2021 - 12:30