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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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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...

Structure of UBC’s Tall Wood Building Now Complete

Green Buildings 101

Future Fisheries Can Expect $10-Billion Revenue Loss Due to Climate Change

Wellbeing in the workplace helps us live, work better

At UBC, we champion wellbeing as integral to our continued excellence as a post-secondary institution and to create happier, healthier, and more sustainable communities, both on our campuses and beyond. For UBC staff, as well as many other Canadians, the workplace is where we spend a substantial...

Keeping a foot on the gas pedal: the state of renewables in 2016

Canada continues to make gains when it comes to the share of renewable power resources in energy portfolios across the country, but storm winds are brewing. That’s according to a recent op-ed from researchers at Clean Energy Canada, who say it’s time to step on the gas pedal at a “pivotal” moment...

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