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UBC Receives Public Sector Leadership Award at the Second Annual BC Embodied Carbon Awards 2024

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2023 Climate and Wellbeing Education Grants Unveiled!

Climate Change & Energy
Human Well-being & Social Systems
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Addressing the Impacts of Canadian Mining on Communities in Africa

Human Well-being & Social Systems
Natural Resources
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Should the Fraser River Estuary have legal rights?

Ecological Systems
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Telling Stories: The Humanities in an Age of Planetary Agenda-Setting

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*NEW* UBC Micro-certificate in Climate Action Planning: Foundations, Finance and Implementation

Canada is not on track to meet its 2030 target of reducing GHG emissions by 40-45 percent below 2005 levels, despite implementing several climate policies and initiatives. At the provincial level, British Columbia has set a climate action target of reducing GHG emissions by 40 percent below 2007...

New Sustainability Scholars report shows dire link between the climate crisis and homelessness

New Sustainability Scholars report produced in partnership with Union Gospel Mission shows that unhoused people in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside (DTES) experience significantly more detrimental health impacts when facing extreme heat and extreme cold.

COP29 in Baku this November - Will you be there?

Photo courtesy of Tural Taqiyev via Unsplash The 29 th United Nations Climate Change Conference of the Parties (COP29) summit is taking place in Baku, Azerbaijan, from November 11 to 22, 2024. The Conference brings together countries, civil society, companies and people on the frontline of climate...

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UBC Receives Public Sector Leadership Award at the Second Annual BC Embodied Carbon Awards 2024

UBC shines as a leader in reducing embodied carbon in British Colombia. Recognized in the Carbon Leadership Forum BC Embodied Carbon Award, UBC's commitment to province-wide emission reduction is highlighted.

Campus as a Living Lab: Campus Trees, Microbes and Insects

Supported by UBC's Campus as a Living Lab , the CTMAIN project aims to investigate how the selection of urban trees based on their robustness to city living has affected local insect and microbial communities. Student researchers led by Dr. Michelle Tseng and Dr. Tara Moreau select trees across the...

Reflecting on Sustainability through Photography

In January 2024 the UBC community was invited to engage with sustainability themes through photography. Learn more about the project and enjoy some of the resulting works.

UBC Okanagan interdisciplinary research cluster tackles plastic pollution

It’s a problem UBC Okanagan’s Dr. Mohammad Arjmand wants to address with the help of varied expertise and state-of-the-art plastic processing equipment available at UBC. “I’ve been working with mostly virgin plastic in my research for almost 15 years,” explains the School of Engineering Assistant...

UBC researchers investigate how traffic pollution impairs brains function

A new study by researchers at UBC and the University of Victoria has shown common levels of traffic pollution can impair human brain function in only a matter of hours. “For many decades, scientists thought the brain may be protected from the harmful effects of air pollution,” says Dr. Chris...

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