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Built Environment & Mobility
Climate Change & Energy
The UBC Sustainability Hub’s Megan Badri, Research Manager, explains the difference between “embodied” carbon and “operational” carbon, and describes the Canadian policy landscape around sustainable construction to Business in Vancouver.

Meet the 2024 Sustainability Education Fellows Grant recipients

Climate Change & Energy
Human Well-being & Social Systems

Sustainability Ambassadors take climate action outreach to Science World

Climate Change & Energy
Human Well-being & Social Systems
Policy, Economics & Governance

The Downtown Eastside Talks Climate with UBC’s CLEAR Project

Built Environment & Mobility
Human Well-being & Social Systems

Well-to-wake: decarbonizing BC’s maritime industry

Climate Change & Energy
Policy, Economics & Governance

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For Dr. Nathan Pelletier , Associate Professor of Biology, Faculty of Management at UBC Okanagan, this growing challenge is the focus of a renewed Canada Industrial Research Chair in Sustainability, supported by the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC) and the Egg Farmers of...
The focus of new research is 'Solid Carbon' — an ambitious project funded by the Pacific Institute for Climate Solutions, which aims to draw carbon from the atmosphere and inject it into sub-sea floor basalt, where it will 'mineralize' or turn to solid rock over time.
In October 2023, the University of British Columbia's Sustainability Hub was invited to hold a workshop at the annual CleanBC, "Climate Leadership Symposium: Public Sector and Local Government Action." The Symposium was organised by the B.C. Government , Ministry of Environment and Climate Change...
The Climate Emergency Fund emerged through advocacy from the student-led UBC Climate Hub and close collaboration with elected AMS and GSS student leaders. Proposals were accepted over winter 2020-21, and in late spring 2021, a twelve-member Committee met to analyze the seven proposals that were...
Located on the west coast of Vancouver Island, Bamfield is a small coastal community originally inhabited by Huu-ay-aht First Nations, who remain an integral presence in the community.
The field program , led by Dr. David Bunn , Professor, and Dr. Melissa McHale , Associate Professor, Department of Forest Resources Management, offers a unique opportunity for students to experience firsthand a variety of decolonized conservation management models.
Contrast the hopes and aspirations of our UBC colleagues below with the outcome from the ‘ UAE Consensus’ agreed at COP28 and the reaction to the deal by civil society. Words: Niki Afsharpour. Images: David Tindall.
The three-spine sticklebacks exhibit remarkable diversity due to their evolution from marine fish to freshwater species after the last ice age, making them among the youngest species on Earth.
White-tailed deer are expanding deeper into caribou range where they were previously less abundant, and now act as a food source that strengthens the population of caribou predators including wolves.
Members of the Environment & Community cluster contribute to an understanding of the relationships between built and human communities within natural environments.

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