Water connects all living things. Ensuring resilient water systems for society and ecosystems is a global priority, challenged by both present and future impacts of a changing climate. Join us for important conversations about the nexus of Climate+Water. All those interested in research, including...
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.
Climate Change & Energy
Human Well-being & Social Systems
Join us for a public talk with John Vaillant, Lori Daniels, and Suzanne Simard on the new wildfire reality facing urban BC.
Climate Justice is a business responsibility
Climate Change & Energy
Production, Consumption & Waste
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.
Events by Date
When:
Thursday, April 10, 2025 - 09:00 to 12:00
Location:
BC Hydro Theatre, Centre for Interactive Research on Sustainability
The Solutions Scholars Program connects graduate students with scholarly research projects on climate change mitigation, adaptation, and/or education. In September 2024, four interdisciplinary research cohorts began working together on Solutions Scholars projects. Supported by faculty from across...
When:
Wednesday, April 16, 2025 - 13:00 to 15:00
Location:
The Nest @ UBC | Room 2306 and 2309
Past Events
Join us for a public talk on the new wildfire reality facing urban BC with best-selling author and writer John Vaillant, Koerner Chair for the Centre for Wildfire Coexistence and UBC Faculty of Forestry Professor Lori Daniels. The conversation will be moderated by UBC Faculty of Forestry Professor...
When:
Thursday, April 3, 2025 - 18:30 to 20:00
Location:
Centre for Interactive Research on Sustainability (CIRS)
Join us for a public talk with John Vaillant, Lori Daniels, and Suzanne Simard on the new wildfire reality facing urban BC.
When:
Thursday, April 3, 2025 - 18:00 to 20:00
Location:
Centre for Interactive Research on Sustainability
What is the role of businesses in working towards climate justice? This expert panel will discuss the opportunities, constraints and responsibilities that corporations have in adapting their business practices to address the unequal impacts of climate change, considering their different emissions...
When:
Thursday, April 3, 2025 - 12:30 to 14:00
Location:
Centre for Interactive Research on Sustainability (CIRS)
What is the role of businesses in working towards climate justice? This expert panel will discuss the opportunities, constraints and responsibilities that corporations have in adapting their business practices to address the unequal impacts of climate change, considering their different emissions...
When:
Thursday, April 3, 2025 - 12:30 to 14:00
Location:
BC Hydro Theatre, Centre for Interactive Research on Sustainability
Speakers: Adam Bent, Strategic Advisor and Interim Director, Fisheries and Seafood, and Samantha Renshaw, Science lead, Ocean Wise This seminar explores how market-based solutions, technology, and AI are driving innovation in ocean conservation. We’ll examine how cross-sector collaboration and data...
When:
Friday, March 28, 2025 - 11:00 to 12:00
Location:
Aquatic Ecosystems Research Laboratory (AERL)
The Nettle Dress is a poetic 2023 documentary by Dylan Howitt that follows the seven-year activity of artist Allan Brown to glean, process, spin, weave, and sew a dress of local stinging nettles. We will be screening it as an opening to the Slow Fashion Show at the Museum of Anthropology (MOA),...
When:
Thursday, March 27, 2025 - 17:00 to 18:10
Location:
Green College
With shifting definitions of climate emergency, increasing tension between advocates and deniers, and blurring of climate curricular boundaries, this panel seeks to understand what constitutes an education in 2025 for understanding, addressing, and living with climate change. Drawing perspectives...
When:
Thursday, March 27, 2025 - 11:00 to 12:00
Location:
Online/Virtual Event
With shifting definitions of climate emergency, increasing tension between advocates and deniers, and blurring of climate curricular boundaries, this panel seeks to understand what constitutes an education in 2025 for understanding, addressing, and living with climate change. Drawing perspectives...
When:
Thursday, March 27, 2025 - 11:00 to 12:00
Location:
Online / Virtual Event
Join us in person or online for an exciting conversation with Grace Nosek about her book, Rootbound, and the unique role that climate fiction and art can play in empowering youth and driving climate action. Climate fiction and art are powerful tools to advocate for environmental justice and...
When:
Thursday, March 20, 2025 - 12:00 to 14:00
Location:
Centre for Interactive Research on Sustainability (CIRS)
Join us in person or online for an exciting conversation with Grace Nosek about her book, Rootbound, and the unique role that climate fiction and art can play in empowering youth and driving climate action.
When:
Thursday, March 20, 2025 - 12:00 to 14:00
Location:
BC Hydro Theatre, Centre for Interactive Research on Sustainability