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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
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Addressing the Impacts of Canadian Mining on Communities in Africa

Human Well-being & Social Systems
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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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EVs vs. fuel cells: Does one technology have an edge in the race to transform the auto industry?

It could be the coming battle royale for the future of the automotive sector: EVs or fuel cells? Both technologies have grown by leaps and bounds in recent years, but it remains to be seen whether one has the long-term edge over the other. Late last month, researchers at the University of Texas at...

The cost of a warming climate

Vancouver endured its longest cold snap in more than 30 years this winter, with heavy snowfall and temperatures that stayed below 5 C for weeks. The city’s plight may have attracted ridicule from the rest of Canada, where snow and freezing temperatures are hardly something to bat an eye at. But the...

UBC team develops mobile sensors to monitor urban greenhouse gas emissions

Universities establish joint centre to use data for social good in Cascadia region

UBC team develops mobile sensors to monitor urban greenhouse gas emissions

Cities play a key role in reducing greenhouse gas emissions to combat climate change, but directly measuring emissions remains a challenge. In a paper published today in Atmospheric Measurement Techniques , UBC researchers share a novel method they developed to map carbon dioxide emissions— the...

The economics of a low-carbon economy

The move to a low-carbon economy will be “a major structural shift for the global and Canadian economies,” according to a senior Bank of Canada official, but the Canadian economy is resilient. Timothy Lane made the remarks during a speech in Montreal on March 2. He argued that carbon pricing is a “...

Forests are a big part of B.C.’s climate plan. Can they get the job done?

When International Day of Forests rolls around this year, B.C. better get its forests a nice present. Or at least a card. That’s because B.C. forests are being asked to do much of the heavy lifting in British Columbia’s Climate Leadership Plan, the sprawling document released last August aimed at...

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Preparing for climate migration  

For years, Vancouver planners have warned that the city must do more to prepare for the effects of climate change. With sea levels set to rise nearly a metre by 2100, Vancouver will need to develop strategies and infrastructure to mitigate the impacts of floods, and water storage plans to allow the...

The slow rise of the electric car

Earlier this month, the B.C. government announced it would extend its Clean Energy Vehicle program, originally launched in 2011. The provincial government has infused another $40 million into the program, which lets consumers save $5,000 on the purchase of electric and hybrid vehicles, and $6,000...

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