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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
Policy, Economics & Governance
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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

Climate Change & Energy
Ecological Systems
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PODCAST: F IS FOR FACULTY

A podcast series on sustainability and climate action brought to you by the Sustainability Hub. In each episode, we’ll introduce you to what a UBC faculty member is doing to advance sustainability and climate action through research and teaching, and they’ll tell you what they want you to DO with all this new knowledge.
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Media release: COP27 event highlights BC delegates’ experiences with the politics of power 

Fresh from Sharm El Sheikh, COP27 delegates including students, faculty and staff from Simon Fraser University and the University of British Columbia reflect on their experiences at the global centre of decision making over our collective climate future. On Wednesday, Dec. 1 at 6 p.m. (PST), COP27...

How The UBC Interdisciplinary Biodiversity Solutions Collaboratory (IBioS) is Fighting Biodiversity Loss

Over the past few decades, biodiversity has been declining at an alarming rate. With species threatened by extinction making up roughly 25% of the IUCN Red List alone , it’s clear that biodiversity loss can have severe ramifications for our ecosystems, and consequentially — human survival...

New UBC climate course partners with City of Vancouver to find carbon-reduction solutions

This article by Cheryl Chan originally appeared in the Vancouver Sun on November 8, 2022. UBC instructor Tara Ivanochko knew there was a demand to learn how to prepare and respond to the climate emergency. But she didn’t expect all 60 spots for an inaugural certificate program on climate change to...

Sustainability Scholars showcase projects to Vancouver city leadership team

On October 28th, at a lively showcase event at Vancouver City Hall, three graduate students working with City mentors through the Sustainability Scholars Program shared their key research findings with the City’s Leadership Team. Between May and Aug 2022, City of Vancouver staff mentored 17 UBC...

UBC students pitch climate action ideas to City of Vancouver

This segment originally appeared on Global News Television , on November 6, 2022. Watch the report British Columbians by now are aware of how catastrophic climate change can be after experiencing extreme storms and wildfire seasons in recent years. Its effects are also now the focus of a new area...

Podcast: F is for Faculty - Dr. Jiaying Zhao

Welcome to F is for Faculty. In each episode, we’ll introduce you to what a UBC faculty member is doing to advance sustainability and climate action through research and teaching. This week, we met Dr. Jiaying Zhao, Associate Professor in the Department of Psychology and the Institute for Resources...

Dear Ocean Lovers

Words by Bodhi Patil (United Nations Ocean-Climate Leader), photo courtesy of Sebastian Velasquez (Surf Club President and Orca Expert) On October 14, UBC Surf Club , Ocean Uprise , and community partners hosted a screening of Coextinction , an Indigenous-led storytelling session, and afterparty...

Stopping a Climate Change Culprit

Cover photo : Alberta tar sands. Words by Cait Murphy Calls for an international treaty to stop production of coal, oil, and gas have been gaining momentum. On October 20, in a resolution on COP27 , the EU Parliament asked that European states begin to develop a Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty...

Loss and Damages – A Make or Break Issue

Cover photo : Flooding in Pano Aqil, Pakistan, 2022. Words by Linda Nowlan Climate Action Network International’s Harjeet Singh says “Loss and damages” or more international financing to pay for losses due to climate catastrophes will be a make-or-break issue for COP27. Egypt, COP’s host country...

No #ClimateJustice Without #HumanRights 

Words by Cait Murphy Egyptian civil society and activists have launched the slogans “No #ClimateJustice Without #HumanRights” and “No climate justice without open civic space” ahead of this year’s UN Climate Change Conference of Parties (COP27). The slogans are a reference to host country Egypt’s...

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