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Built Environment & Mobility
Climate Change & Energy

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
Policy, Economics & Governance
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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

Climate Change & Energy
Ecological Systems
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Climate Education Grants Announced

The Sustainability Hub would like to congratulate the recipients of 2022 Climate Education Grants, supporting faculty members who are looking to enhance their courses with climate change-related content.

UBC Learning Exchange: Developing nature-based activities with DTES residents

Excerpt from an interview with Annie Montague, Department of Educational Studies (MA), on how developing nature-based activities at the UBC Learning Exchange combined academics, career and community. Read the full story and learn more about the UBC Learning Exchange . What did you do at the...

Visualizing Circular Economies Competition Recap

Part of SDG Week 2022, an event series hosted by UBC Sustainability Ambassadors centered around the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, the Ambassador Circular Economy team hosted the Visualizing Circular Economies competition, to address SDG Goal 12: Responsible Consumption and...

How much are taxpayers really subsidizing Canada's fossil fuel industry?

This article by Emily Chung originally appeared on CBC News on March 09, 2022. Features climate justice issues highlighted by Temitope Onifade, International Doctoral Fellow, a Liu Scholar and a Vanier Scholar at UBC, and author of a Canadian Climate Law Initiative report on fossil fuel subsidies...

Reflections on Climate Emergency Week 2022

With the return to campus and students preparing for mid-terms, there was a buzz building at UBC leading into the week of February 14. No doubt, some of that buzz was reverberating from the sounding of “Code Red” alarms, signalling the urgent need to act on the climate crisis.

UBC publishes sustainability open data to support research, learning, operations, and industry collaborations

In support of commitments to significantly deepen GHG emissions reductions via UBC’s Climate Action Plan 2030 , and the Sustainability Hub’s new five-year plan focused on bridging the academy and campus operations, staff and faculty have created a new open data platform to amplify achievements,...

UBC’s Campus as a Living Lab awards seed funding to 4 new sustainability projects

Four new Campus as a Living Lab (CLL) sustainability projects have just been awarded a share of $200,000 in funding, and will be set in motion this year on the UBC Vancouver campus. These projects illustrate the diversity of sustainability research at UBC, ranging from insect sticky traps to...

How the Kwikwetlem First Nation are returning salmon to the river that sustained their people for thousands of years

The below is a short extract from a feature length article by Josh Kozelj originally published by The Ubyssey on October 13, 2021. After years of stalled attempts to negotiate and jumpstart the salmon population with local city and governmental groups who monitored the Coquitlam River in early 2000...

UBC Sustainability Initiative relaunches as ‘Sustainability Hub’ with new 5 year plan

This plan signals the next phase for the UBC Sustainability Initiative: meeting the escalating urgency of a planet at risk through new leadership and new responsibilities.

Rescued Glass

Prishita Agarwal is a third-year Sauder student, specializing in finance with a concentration in Sustainability and social impact. She founded and built Rescued Glass, a circular economy venture to upcycle used glass bottles at UBC. As a director at CUS Sustainability, Prishita also organizes...

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