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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
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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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What's all the rage in the fight against climate change?

Last week, Canada's House of Commons voted to ratify the Paris climate change agreement, alongside the European Union and several other countries. The agreement will enter into force on Nov. 4. But amid all the abstract talk about international agreements, carbon pricing and emissions targets,...

Carbon taxes: a year in review

A national carbon tax can take a big bite out of Canada’s greenhouse gas emissions, but it can’t do it alone. That’s one of the messages carbon tax experts are relaying after the Trudeau government announced its sweeping plan to put a price on carbon earlier this month. The Liberals aim to bring in...

Paris Climate Agreement to be in force before November COP 22

This month saw the first concrete step toward enshrining the Paris Climate Agreement since the 191 countries approved the accords last December. On October 4, the European Union collectively opted to ratify the climate deal, setting in motion a mechanism for the Agreement to go into force within 30...

Q&A: Meaning and Implications of Canada's New Carbon Tax

Canada's federal government just released a new plan to impose a pan-Canadian price on carbon across all provinces by 2018. "Already 80 percent of Canadians live in a province where there is pollution pricing. We want to continue this trend and cover the final 20 per cent," states Catherine McKenna...

New research highlights the need for up-to-date fuel economy rules

With carbon emissions in the American transportation sector set to overtake power plants for the first time in four decades, greater fuel economy regulations may be key to keeping CO2 reductions in pace with rising transportation demands on both sides of the border. According to John DeCicco,...

Growing Green

In 1950, one third of the world’s population lived in cities. By 2050, the United Nations predicts that the number will have risen to 66 per cent . Much of the food that now feeds the growing urban population comes from large-scale agricultural operations far from city centres. But in recent years...

“Accelerated” coal phase-out could save billions in health care costs: report

Alberta plans to phase out coal-fired electricity generation over the next 15 years. But, how the province does so will have big impacts, and lives could hang in the balance. That’s according to a new study from the Pembina Institute on the benefits Alberta and Canada could reap from an “...

UBC Earns Global Sustainability Award for Student Engagement

In time for the start of the new academic year, UBC’s SEEDS Sustainability Program was recognized with a global Green Gown Award for Student Engagement. The award seeks to recognize university and college sustainability leadership across the world. Facilitated by the Global Universities Partnership...

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