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The 2025 Campus as a Living Lab (CLL) Fund Competition called for visionary approaches to help British Columbia and Canada respond and adapt to the pressing sustainability challenges. This year's competition drew faculty and staff from more...

Angelique Pilon appointed Director, Sustainability Hub

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How UBC's Sustainability Hub is helping reduce embodied carbon in the construction industry

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New Sustainable Cities Certificate from UBC SCARP

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Sustainability Scholar maps ecosystems to inform adaptation strategies to preserve Maplewood Flats

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A podcast series on sustainability and climate action brought to you by the Sustainability Hub. In each episode, we’ll introduce you to what a UBC faculty member is doing to advance sustainability and climate action through research and teaching, and they’ll tell you what they want you to DO with all this new knowledge.

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By Philippe Le Billon, Professor in Geography and School of Public Policy & Global Affairs, UBC and Pierre Wokuri, Junior Professor in Political Science, Sciences Po Rennes. Originally published in The Conversation . The first international Conference on Transitioning Away from Fossil Fuels...
From April 24-29, 2026, Colombia and the Netherlands hosted the First Conference on Transitioning Away from Fossil Fuels , a collective effort aimed to build a “coalition of the willing,” enabling pathways for transition. The conference was organized around three themes: Overcoming economic...
George Benson George P. R. Benson is a globally recognised leader on economic development, cities, and climate action. He has worked across the public, private, and non-profit sectors and currently leads the Zero Emissions Innovation Centre (ZEIC)’s economic development team. George’s team supports...
The Sustainability Hub congratulates the recipients of the 2026 Sustainability Education Fellows Program grants! These grants support faculty members to create new courses or enhance existing ones with sustainability content.
The False Creek Community Placemaking Festival was planned by a group of Sustainability Ambassadors as an invitation to pause, connect, and reconsider how we share space—with one another and with the ecosystems that sustain us.
At the heart of UBC's CLL initiative is a transformative idea: leveraging the collaborative expertise of the university and using the campus as a testbed where researchers, students, staff, and external partners explore innovative solutions to sustainability challenges. Initiated in 2020, CLL Fund...
This article by Carolyn Ali originally appeared in Beyond UBC on July 25, 2025. Watch this video to better understand the role of critical minerals in your daily life—and the future of energy.
By Dr. Janice Stewart, Deputy Provost & Associate Vice-President, Academic. I am pleased to announce that Angelique Pilon has been appointed as Director of the Sustainability Hub, effective March 1, 2026.
Managed by the Sustainability Hub, UBC’s Campus as a Living Lab demonstrates how the living lab framework enables researchers, students, operations staff and external partners to use the Vancouver and Okanagan campuses to explore, develop and test new ideas, and to share the knowledge gained from...
COP30 – the Conference of the Parties for the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change – has just wrapped up in Belém, Brazil. This year, UBC sent a delegation of 14 faculty, students, and staff to observe the official negotiations both virtually and on the ground in Brazil.

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