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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
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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The New Age of Urban Partnerships

Cities are increasingly gaining recognition as sites of innovation and global leadership. Part of this increase in notoriety and importance stems from the fact that more people live in cities than at any other time in the past. Global economic restructuring since the 1970s, the spread of...

Foundations look to increase impact with responsible investing

With low interest rates and smaller funds for grants, foundations are looking for another way to increase their impact. Business ethics expert Christie Stephenson has noted in the last five years a significant increase in foundations redirecting their endowments from traditional investments to...

Living in Canada's greenest city costs a lot of green: where affordability and sustainability meet

Vancouver wants to be the greenest city in the world. But it's also one of the least affordable cities in the world, with the price of an average detached home sitting at about $1.5 million . And this raises an important question: how sustainable can a city be if large sectors of the population can...

Unintended consequences: UN signatories meet to ban gas that saved ozone layer

The Montreal Protocol that banned ozone-damaging gases from aerosols, hair spray and air conditioners was one of the modern environmental movement’s great victories. Ratified by every country in the United Nations, the 1987 protocol outlawed ozone-depleting chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) and was hailed...

Q&A: Beautify My Bike Cage

Earlier this year, Campus and Community Planning launched Beautify My Bike Cage , a mural contest designed to animate an underutilized space and celebrate cycling culture on campus. There are several potential locations for this contest series, with the first site being the Bike cage off of Aquatic...

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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...

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