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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
Human Well-being & Social Systems
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US Climate Policy Trumped?

Donald Trump’s successful election campaign has set the world abuzz, and led to questions about the effect he will have on the economy. Trump was openly critical of the Federal government’s stance on climate policy, its commitment to the Paris Accord, and, presumably, the bilateral agreement...

B.C. making slow progress on energy-efficient buildings

Nearly one quarter of British Columbia’s greenhouse gas emissions come from the built environment, including buildings, deforestation, and waste. That figure is higher in urban centres. According to one estimate, energy use in buildings in Vancouver accounts for 55 per cent of the city’s emissions...

Industrial land crunch could have sustainability upshot

Metro Vancouver’s hot real estate market has many young people wondering whether they have a future in a region where home ownership is increasingly unattainable; but skyrocketing housing prices also threaten to drive out the reason Vancouver was built in the first place. Metro Vancouver lost 865...

Climate Change may prevent volcanoes from cooling the planet

Why North Americans Should Look to BC’s Carbon Tax as a Model

Q&A: Sustainability as a Hallmark for Innovation and Success

UBC Sustainability Initiative Work Learn student, Alex Migdal (a graduate student with the UBC School of Journalism), sat down with Sauder School of Business lecturer Tamar Milne, to discuss the central role sustainability and responsibility play in ensuring organizational profitability and success...

New charter for universities links wellbeing and sustainability

There’s a move among some universities to take a more active role in improving the health and wellbeing of their students and faculty. Last month, six Canadian universities, including the University of British Columbia, became the first to formally adopt the Okanagan Charter, which challenges post-...

A U.S. ballot initiative this week brings to task B.C.’s carbon tax

Amid the contentious U.S. presidential election this week, a substantial ballot initiative in Washington state went largely unnoticed, putting B.C.’s carbon tax under the microscope. When Washington voters went to the ballot box on Tuesday, they were also asked to weigh in on Initiative 732, a...

UN deal aims to curb soaring emissions from airlines

More than 190 nations have committed to offsetting emissions from the aviation sector—one of the fastest-growing sources of planet-warming greenhouse gases. But an expert on aviation emissions in British Columbia is skeptical about whether the new United Nations pact will help curb the sector’s...

Six Canadian universities partner on groundbreaking health promotion movement

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