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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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Adding a touch of green to the blue and gold

By Heather Amos UBC Athletics & Recreation asked some of the university’s top sustainability researchers to measure the overall environmental footprint of its facilities and programs, and devise a tool to track progress. Led by PhD student Matt Dolf of UBC’s Centre for Sport and Sustainability...

Award-winning ideas for affordable housing

Ian Ross McDonald, adjunct faculty at the School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture (SALA), received an award of excellence for his affordable housing idea in the recent City of Vancouver re:THINK HOUSING competition. McDonald proposed Bridge Housing which calls for new density policies...

Adaptation ecologies

A native of Melbourne, Australia, Sophie Webber is a doctoral student in UBC’s Department of Geography . Sophie is the recipient of a Killan Doctoral Scholarship and shares her research on climate change adaptation and industry. What is the aim of your research? My research aims to determine how...

Clean Energy Research Centre

Energy remains one of the biggest challenges for the 21st century. It lies at the nexus of water, health, food, and other issues. Some of the key challenges include resource sustainability, particularly for oil and gas, environmental damage and climate change, reduced affluence and urgency. To...

Tapping into CHBE expertise

Canadian culture is steeped in water. Eight of the world’s 20 largest fresh water lakes lie within our borders, as do nearly 50 rivers that each stretch 600 kilometres or more – to say nothing of our 200,000 kilometres of coastline. Although less than 1% of all the Earth’s water is accessible and...

Grade 11 students look for more than “less bad” in sustainability

Today’s decisions affecting the environment and global resources are sure to cast a long shadow – so who better to declare their personal involvement than the generation now in high school? This summer, International Baccalaureate (IB) Diploma students from around the world will gather at UBC to...

Visualizing Climate Change

Is seeing really believing when it comes to climate change? This coming spring, Dr. Stephen R. J. Sheppard with their students will examine this topic through a unique course being offered at UBC. Visualizing Climate Change ( CONS 210 Section 101 ) will widen the lens on climate change, using the...

A New Standard in Sustainability

UBC researchers have designed and built a structure that sets a new standard for sustainability. Global BC’s Brian Coxford visited the Centre for Interactive Research on Sustainability (CIRS) to report on how CIRS is reshaping sustainable building design and research. No water from rain or sewage...

Botany Lab Technician Wins President’s Award

Jarnail Mehroke, a teaching laboratory technician who has been key to several sustainability initiatives on campus, has received the highest honour for UBC staff: the President’s Service Award for Excellence. “I was a little bit nervous,” admits Jarnail Mehroke. For Mehroke, shaking hands with UBC...

UBC Engineering student helps design a world of hope

UBC fourth-year mechanical engineering student Nicholas Dunning recently returned from an Engineering Co-op work term in Mlandizi, Tanzania. Dunning travelled to Tanzania with a team of architects and engineers from across North America – and were joined by a local Tanzanian architecture intern –...

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