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Climate Change & Energy
Human Well-being & Social Systems

Cooling the Heart of the City

Climate Equity Action and Resilience (CLEAR) was created by the UBC Sustainability Hub and the UBC Learning Exchange, working with four DTES community organizations. The project will help the university to understand how to share its research while...
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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
Natural Resources
Policy, Economics & Governance
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Telling Stories: The Humanities in an Age of Planetary Agenda-Setting

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Ecological Systems
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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...

2024 Summer Work Learn Positions in Sustainability

Join the Sustainability Hub through UBC's Work Learn program . From addressing the climate emergency to supporting research and knowledge mobilization, we have plenty of opportunities for you to integrate sustainability into your work. Climate, Equity, Action and Resilience (CLEAR) PRoject WL S24...

Research-based software advances net zero egg farming

For Dr. Nathan Pelletier , Associate Professor of Biology, Faculty of Management at UBC Okanagan, this growing challenge is the focus of a renewed Canada Industrial Research Chair in Sustainability, supported by the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC) and the Egg Farmers of...

Exploring the Public Acceptability of Direct Air Capture

The focus of new research is 'Solid Carbon' — an ambitious project funded by the Pacific Institute for Climate Solutions, which aims to draw carbon from the atmosphere and inject it into sub-sea floor basalt, where it will 'mineralize' or turn to solid rock over time.

Embodied carbon: UBC Sustainability Hub facilitating collaborations between B.C. Government, municipalities, universities, to help achieve 2050 net zero targets

In October 2023, the University of British Columbia's Sustainability Hub was invited to hold a workshop at the annual CleanBC, "Climate Leadership Symposium: Public Sector and Local Government Action." The Symposium was organised by the B.C. Government , Ministry of Environment and Climate Change...

Climate Emergency Fund: Global and Campus Impact

The Climate Emergency Fund emerged through advocacy from the student-led UBC Climate Hub and close collaboration with elected AMS and GSS student leaders. Proposals were accepted over winter 2020-21, and in late spring 2021, a twelve-member Committee met to analyze the seven proposals that were...

Integrating a Collaborative Design Approach Into Community Forest Management

Located on the west coast of Vancouver Island, Bamfield is a small coastal community originally inhabited by Huu-ay-aht First Nations, who remain an integral presence in the community.

Examining Post-Colonial Wildlife Conservation in South Africa

The field program , led by Dr. David Bunn , Professor, and Dr. Melissa McHale , Associate Professor, Department of Forest Resources Management, offers a unique opportunity for students to experience firsthand a variety of decolonized conservation management models.

COP28: Hopes and reactions to the latest climate deal

Contrast the hopes and aspirations of our UBC colleagues below with the outcome from the ‘ UAE Consensus’ agreed at COP28 and the reaction to the deal by civil society. Words: Niki Afsharpour. Images: David Tindall.

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