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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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China, U.S. ratify Paris agreement in major climate change milestone

China and the United States have both formally ratified the Paris climate change agreement, marking a major step toward the implementation of the global pact. U.S. President Barack Obama confirmed the decision in China on Sept. 3. “Just as I believe the Paris agreement will ultimately prove to be a...

UBC Students Explore Ways to Reduce Food Waste

Globally, approximately one third of the food produced for human consumption gets lost or wasted each year. At the same time, almost a billion people go hungry. In dollar amount, that equates to some $680 billion in losses in industrialized countries alone. In Canada, a 2014 report suggests that...

UBC's Green Building Plan

Mike van der Laan is a Planning Analyst with UBC and alongside Campus + Community Planning collegues is involved in a process to develop UBC's Green Building Plan. Over the next year the campus community will be engaged to build on UBC's pioneering leadership in sustainability and shape the future...

A Gold Medal for a Climate Neutral Games?

With the successful completion of the Rio Olympic games it is valuable to reflect on what has been achieved in terms of the contribution of the event to the sustainability agenda: one of the pillars of the Games. In the past, the Games were criticised by environmental groups for wasting resources...

Vancouver’s social venture space faces growing pains

Wish you could grow some bok choy in your garden, but don’t have a clue how? There’s a social venture that can help with that. According to a UBC report , the number of social ventures has grown by over a third since 2015. However, issues such as not tracking social impact and a disproportionate...

Bringing back the bronze medal for climate

The heats for the men’s 200m in the Rio Olympics are now famous for the smiling bromance between Andre DeGrasse and Usain Bolt. Bolt crossed the line almost shoulder to shoulder with his protégé. In the finals, he showed his dominance by crossing the line a couple of lengths ahead and still made it...

Measuring the environmental impact of large sporting events, a tricky task

The 2016 Summer Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro opened with a rallying cry for the environmental movement—a welcome ceremony that featured powerful messages about deforestation, climate change and rising sea levels. But what of the environmental impact of the games themselves? Turns out, measuring...

Driverless cars moving full speed ahead

They are the stuff of sci-fi blockbusters, and soon, they could be coming to a highway near you. In recent years, auto and tech companies have been racing to put the first driverless cars on the road. And last week, Uber announced that its first fleet of autonomous vehicles will be deployed in...

Perspectives from a Green Building tour guide

Gaving Pattman, a Work Learn student in Arts, and the Green Building Tour Coordinator, shares his perspective on Green Buildings, and how he thinks we can all contribute to a more sustainable future. Q. What is a Green Building? A green building is a building that is designed to have minimal...

Green Buildings 101

Jennifer Sanguinetti, Director of Project Services with the Infrastructure Development team, explains Green Buildings, and details how universities have an important role to play in Green Building design. Q. What’s your role or area of expertise? I work in the Infrastructure Development team as the...

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