**FREE ONLINE EVENT** In an ever-changing world with increasingly complex challenges, the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) require rethinking norms and imagining innovative solutions. Post-secondary institutions play an important role in...
How can students play a role in critical climate policy development in the Vancouver area? In this moderated conversation we will explore the policy being developed by local governments to catalyze a reduction in carbon emissions. Learn about the...
Centre for Interactive Research on Sustainability (CIRS)
Speaker: Dr . Jonathan Moore Professor; Liber Ero Chair of Coastal Science and Management, Simon Fraser University In watersheds of western North America, migratory salmon support ecosystems, economies, and cultures. However, these fish and their...
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Thu. Feb. 9, 5-6.30pm PST Free in-person and virtual tickets https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/sue-big-oil-a-made-in-bc-climate-campaign-tickets-506858987877 In July 2022, Vancouver city councillors voted 6-5 in support of a motion to set aside about $700...
Centre for Interactive Research on Sustainability (CIRS)
As part of UBC’s Climate Emergency Week, the UBC Climate Action Mobilizers are hosting a microgreen growing workshop for all students! Through this campus-wide microgreen growing workshop, students will: Grow microgreens in their dorms or at home...
Centre for Interactive Research on Sustainability (CIRS)
TikTok is the fastest growing social media platform with over 1 billion global monthly users. What does this mean for the climate emergency? This “Ask-Me Anything” with Ian Gill, Global Sustainability Lead at TikTok, will explore the Chinese social...
Speaker: Dr. Julia K. Baum Professor and President’s Chair, Ocean Ecology and Global Change, University of Victoria Climate change-amplified marine heatwaves now pose an imminent threat to the world’s tropical coral reefs. On almost all coral reefs...
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Reception to follow xʷθəθiqətəm or The Place of Many Trees Liu Institute for Global Issues 6476 NW Marine Dr, Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z2 The future of the ocean is essential to the planet’s future and human life. Climate change intersects profoundly with...
Speaker: Dr. Jean-Baptiste Jouffray Stockholm Resilience Centre, Stockholm University Humans have become a dominant force of planetary change. This epoch, referred to as the Anthropocene, implies profound alterations to the Earth’s marine and...
Can we achieve balance in the nutrient cycle? In an ideal world the nutrients in soil, such as phosphorus and nitrogen, flow through the entire food system, growing into plants, which animals and humans eat, and eventually those same nutrients...