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.
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 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.
UBC Reads Sustainability with Rueben George
Human Well-being & Social Systems
Natural Resources
SDG Month Canada
Climate Change & Energy
Ecological Systems
Human Well-being & Social Systems
Policy, Economics & Governance
Reimagining Climate Change Education
Climate Change & Energy
Human Well-being & Social Systems
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, March 20, 2025 - 12:00 to 14:00
Location:
BC Hydro Theatre, Centre for Interactive Research on Sustainability
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
Past Events
This expert panel will explore approaches to integrating the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) into business school curricula, equipping future leaders with the knowledge and skills to build a more sustainable future. Join us for a dynamic discussion on the challenges, opportunities, and best...
When:
Thursday, March 6, 2025 - 11:00 to 12:30
Location:
Online/Virtual Event
This expert panel will explore different approaches to integrating the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) into business school curricula, equipping future leaders with the knowledge and skills to build a more sustainable future. Join us for a dynamic discussion on the challenges, opportunities,...
When:
Thursday, March 6, 2025 - 11:00 to 12:30
Location:
Online / Virtual Event
Four short talks. Four distinguished speakers working at the intersection of disciplines. Dr. annie ross (Indigenous Studies, Art), Dr. Helmut Weissert (Earth Sciences), Laurie D. Graham (Literature), and Dr. Derek Pardue (Global Studies, Anthropology). The event will be hosted by Green College’s...
When:
Wednesday, March 5, 2025 - 17:00 to 18:30
Location:
Green College
Join us in-person or online for the opening event of UBC’s Sustainable Development Goals Month – a conversation with Sundance Chief and author Rueben George about his bestselling book, It Stops Here: Standing Up For Our Lands, Our Waters and Our People , moderated by UBC Associate Professor...
When:
Monday, March 3, 2025 - 17:00 to 19:30
Location:
Centre for Interactive Research on Sustainability (CIRS)
Join us for the opening event of SDG Month at UBC — a conversation with Sundance Chief, author and member of the səlilwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh Nation) Rueben George about his bestselling book, It Stops Here: Standing Up For Our Lands, Our Waters and Our People, moderated by Dr. Shannon Leddy.
When:
Monday, March 3, 2025 - 17:00 to 18:30
Location:
BC Hydro Theatre, Centre for Interactive Research on Sustainability
Speaker: Maria Pena, The University of The West Indies, Bridgetown, Barbados Fisherfolk in Barbados are experiencing increasing marginalisation. They are concerned about their apparent invisibility and lack of voice in blue economy, climate change and national social protection initiatives and...
When:
Friday, February 28, 2025 - 11:00 to 12:00
Location:
Online/Virtual Event
Speaker: Kevin Chang Abstract KUA’s Executive Director Kevin Chang will discuss some of the roots behind community movements in environmental governance and self-determination to aloha ʻāina (to care for that which feeds) and recent community successes in building a culture around community-...
When:
Friday, February 14, 2025 - 11:00 to 12:00
Location:
Online/Virtual Event
Writer in Residence at Green College Daphne Marlatt , poet; annie ross , poet; Fred Wah , poet; and Rita Wong , poet; hosted by Jaspreet Singh , Writer in Residence at Green College Coach House, Green College, UBC and livestreamed Tuesday, February 11, 5-6:30 pm, with reception to follow “What is...
When:
Tuesday, February 11, 2025 - 17:00 to 18:30
Location:
Green College
Join the UBC Sustainability Hub for a hands-on workshop for current and aspiring climate organizers to help chart their path from desire for change to shaping an effective advocacy strategy through understanding the foundations of power. This workshop will be facilitated by Andrea Reimer , former...
When:
Tuesday, February 11, 2025 - 13:30 to 15:30
Location:
Policy Labs, Centre for Interactive Research on Sustainability
Join the UBC Sustainability Hub for a public talk on the “how-to” foundations of effective climate advocacy. Hear from Andrea Reimer , former Vancouver city councillor and current UBC Adjunct Professor, drawing on her experiences from identifying decision-makers, crafting the ask, and...
When:
Tuesday, February 11, 2025 - 12:30 to 13:30
Location:
Centre for Interactive Research on Sustainability (CIRS)