Interested in learning more about sustainability? Our events listing and featured events provides plenty of opportunities to get involved in sustainability, both on-and-off campus. If you are looking to highlight your sustainability event on campus, please visit UBC Events and tag your submission "sustainability" related.

Human Well-being & Social Systems
Natural Resources
Join us at the xʷc̓ic̓əsəm Garden for an open conversation circle about climate justice and the essential role of Indigenous rights and relations with the land in addressing climate change.

Climate Justice is a business responsibility

Climate Change & Energy
Production, Consumption & Waste

Climate+Water Research Symposium

Climate Change & Energy
Natural Resources

Solutions Summit: Working Towards Climate Solutions

Climate Change & Energy
Policy, Economics & Governance

Climate Emergency Week

Climate Emergency week at UBC seeks to convene and energize communities of climate action at UBC. Join our events, workshops and activities, and take collective action for justice, people, and our planet.

UBC Reads Sustainability

Part book club, part lecture series, and part opportunity to learn beyond the classroom. UBC Reads Sustainability is a forum for students across disciplines to discuss sustainability issues.

SDG Month Canada

SDG Month Canada is a national collaboration featuring workshops, panels, and other interactive programming to increase awareness of and engagement with the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) on university and college campuses.

Climate Justice Series

In response to the focus on climate justice as part of UBC’s Declaration of a Climate Emergency and recommendations from its Climate Emergency Task Force (CETF) Report the UBC Sustainability Initiative launched the Climate Justice Series, featuring sessions that examine climate justice from various perspectives, locally and globally.

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Past Events

Fri, March 12, 2021 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM See description. Mark Your Calendars – Virtual Lunch in the Forest Webinar Series: Black in the Outdoors – March 12, 2021 @ 1 pm – 2pm PST Join us for our 5th #VirtualLunchInTheForest webinar. We are honoured to talk with PhD student Jacqueline Scott about ways...
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Friday, March 12, 2021 - 13:00
Fri, March 12, 2021 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM See description. Speaker: Philippa Cohen is a Research Leader at WorldFish and has the privilege to work with a diverse research delivering research to improve food and nutrition security and wellbeing experiences by small-scale fishers. We frequently hear...
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Friday, March 12, 2021 - 11:00
Part of the Climate Justice Webinar Series Featuring The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable Are we deranged? The acclaimed Indian novelist Amitav Ghosh argues that future generations may well think so. The extreme nature of today’s climate events, Ghosh asserts, make them...
When:
Thursday, March 11, 2021 - 12:00 to 14:00
Location:
Online event
Wed, March 10, 2021 8:30 AM - 10:00 AM UBC Vancouver Campus. Join us for the premiere of "Fibre and Beyond", a documentary co-produced by BioProducts Institute and FinnCERES Flagship, partners in Boreal Alliance. The featured speakers will join the Q&A session after the show to answer your...
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Wednesday, March 10, 2021 - 08:30
WEBINAR: Earthquake-induced soil liquefaction: geotechnical hazards, impacts on infrastructure, and mitigation methods The Lower Mainland of British Columbia is located in a seismically active geographic region. As such, it is of relevance to recognize the possibility of an earthquake in our...
When:
Tuesday, March 9, 2021 - 12:30 to 13:30
Location:
Online event
Fri, March 5, 2021 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM See description. Speaker: Rebecca Asch, Assistant Professor of Fisheries Biology, East Carolina University (ECU). Ecological niche models (ENMs) are among the most common tools to project how fishes and fisheries respond to climate change. However, as...
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Friday, March 5, 2021 - 11:00
Part of the Climate Justice Webinar Series Who does climate change impact most? Countries and peoples that are least responsible for causing climate change are the ones suffering most from its effects. Join UBC faculty, students, staff, and community leaders for an exploration of what climate...
When:
Friday, March 5, 2021 - 11:00 to 12:30
Location:
Online event
WEBINAR: Resilience is the New Sustainability Over the past two decades, sustainability has been a growing trend in construction. For most consumers, this has primarily meant “green design.” Witnessing the effects of intensifying weather and natural disasters, owners, developers, insurers, lenders...
When:
Tuesday, February 23, 2021 - 12:30 to 13:30
Location:
Online event
Mon, February 22, 2021 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM See description. [the_title] CERC Seminar The Path and Opportunities Toward Hydrogen Energy Development February 22, 2021 @ 3:00 PM Biography Hong Chen is Professor in Shanghai Advanced Institute of Finance (SAIF) at Shanghai Jiaotong University, where he...
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Monday, February 22, 2021 - 15:00
Mon, February 22, 2021 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM See description. Speaker: Dr. Hong Chen, Professor of Shanghai Jiaotong University Abstract: The hydrogen development faces four major challenges, or requires “Four Miracles”, as suggested by Dr. Steven Chu (the former Secretary of US DOE): (1) the hydrogen...
When:
Monday, February 22, 2021 - 15:00

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