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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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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...
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.
By Maisha Morshed — Undergraduate student, Mathematics of Information, Faculty of Science, UBC COP30 Delegate, UBC Sustainability Ambassador What does a math student from Bangladesh have to do with United Nations Climate Change Conference in Brazil? A year ago, even I wouldn’t have known how to...
By David Tindall, Professor of Sociology, UBC. Originally published in the Conversation . We live in a time often characterized as a polycrisis . One of those crises is human-caused climate change, an issue currently being discussed by delegates at the COP30 climate talks in Belém, Brazil. Another...
By Philippe Le Billon Professor, Geography Department and School of Public Policy & Global Affairs. Originally published in the Conversation . Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva has dubbed COP30 the forest COP . Taking place in Belém, a large urban centre in the Amazon, this choice...
Following the fifth annual open competition managed by the UBC Sustainability Hub and the Office of Global Engagement , a delegation of 14 students, staff, and faculty will be participating in-person and virtually at the 30th United Nations Climate Change Conference of the Parties (COP30) in Belém...
By Nazia Ahmed (she/her), Senior Evaluation Specialist, Faculty of Medicine and UBC COP30 Delegate As a delegate representing the Faculty of Medicine, I am honored to join this global conversation with a focus on an often-overlooked dimension of climate change: its disproportionate impact on...
From January to June 2025, UBC researchers participated in the International Laboratory Freezer Challenge , a campaign promoting best practices in laboratory cold storage management. Over the challenge, participants took steps to defrost and de-ice freezers, clean coils and filters, create or...

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