Speaker: Dr. Renato Molina, University of Miami What is the impact and value of hurricane forecasts? We study this question using newly-collected forecast data for the universe of land-falling US hurricanes between 2005–2022. We find higher wind speed forecasts increase pre-landfall protective...
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
What steps can we take to address unequal exposure to air pollution and greenhouse gas emissions? Increased global levels of greenhouse gas emissions are causing climate change. Wildfires, transport and industrial emissions also impact local air...
Sustainability Scholars Online Info Session
Climate Change & Energy
Natural Resources
Policy, Economics & Governance
Resume, Cover Letter and Best Practices: Refining Your Scholars Application
Climate Change & Energy
Natural Resources
Policy, Economics & Governance
Insights from Organizing an Indigenous-Led Event: UBC’s Intergenerational March to Commemorate Orange Shirt Day
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 Week Canada
SDG Week 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:
Friday, January 10, 2025 - 11:00 to 12:00
Location:
Online/Virtual Event
Are you a UBC graduate student interested in doing sustainability-related applied research this summer? The UBC Sustainability Scholars Program is hosting two information sessions for prospective applicants to the summer 2025 program. Attendees will have the opportunity to hear from past program...
When:
Wednesday, January 15, 2025 - 12:00
Location:
Online
What steps can we take to address unequal exposure to air pollution and greenhouse gas emissions? Increased global levels of greenhouse gas emissions are causing climate change. Wildfires, transport and industrial emissions also impact local air quality and can lead to lung damage. Join this in-...
When:
Thursday, January 16, 2025 - 13:00 to 14:30
Location:
BC Hydro Theatre, Centre for Interactive Research on Sustainability
Are you a UBC graduate student interested in doing sustainability-related applied research this summer? The UBC Sustainability Scholars Program is hosting two information sessions for prospective applicants to the summer 2025 program. Attendees will have the opportunity to hear from past program...
When:
Thursday, January 16, 2025 - 17:00
Location:
Online
Are you a UBC graduate student interested in doing sustainability-related applied research this summer? This workshop will support prospective Sustainability Scholars to craft a strong application to the program. Rebecca Dirnfeld , a career educator at UBC who specializes in supporting Masters and...
When:
Tuesday, January 21, 2025 - 17:00
Location:
Online
Past Events
Speakers will include: Ruth Arnold (MSc, OCF): Baseline population assessments for three key seahorse species in the Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico Deniz Coskuner (MSc, OCF): Temporal and spatial dynamics of nearshore zooplankton communities in the Strait of Georgia Rhys Jenson (MSc, OCF): Plastics in...
When:
Friday, December 6, 2024 - 11:00 to 12:00
Location:
Aquatic Ecosystems Research Laboratory (AERL)
The annual Intergenerational March to Commemorate Orange Shirt Day at UBC is a profound and powerful event, bringing thousands of people together from across the Lower Mainland to honor and listen to the voices of Indian Residential School survivors. It’s more than just one of the largest...
When:
Wednesday, December 4, 2024 - 10:00
Location:
Online/Virtual Event
Speaker: Dr. Kieran Cox, Liber Ero and NSERC Postdoctoral Fellow at Simon Fraser University The diversity of biotic and abiotic sounds that fill marine ecosystems has become polluted by anthropogenic noise in recent decades. Yet, there is still uncertainty surrounding how different acoustic stimuli...
When:
Friday, November 29, 2024 - 11:00 to 12:00
Location:
Aquatic Ecosystems Research Laboratory (AERL)
The current paradigm of biodiversity conservation, as exemplified by the recent 30 x 30 commitments, has resulted in the separation of humans and nature at the expense of both biological and cultural–linguistic diversity. Hear from Dr. Terry Sunderland, Faculty of Forestry , on alternative...
When:
Thursday, November 28, 2024 - 12:30 to 13:30
Location:
Henry Angus Room 347 (2053 Main Mall)
This workshop invites community members, students, UBC faculty, staff and more to hold and confront their climate emotions and learn about frameworks such as climate wellbeing which center solutions based-thinking. Participants are invited to engage with intersectional approaches to healing to hold...
When:
Monday, November 25, 2024 - 17:00 to 19:00
Location:
Centre for Interactive Research on Sustainability
Speaker: Dr. Kim de Mutsert, Associate Professor in the Division of Coastal Sciences of the School of Ocean Science and Engineering at the University of Southern Mississippi (USM) Main environmental impacts affecting coastal Louisiana are wetland loss and coastal hypoxia. Efforts to mitigate these...
When:
Friday, November 22, 2024 - 11:00 to 12:00
Location:
Online/Virtual Event
People worldwide are deeply affected by the crises and emergencies climate change creates, such as fires, floods, heat waves, air pollution, and crop failure. These events can seem abstract — until you hear the stories of people who have lived through them. The journalists of the Climate Disaster...
When:
Wednesday, November 20, 2024 - 12:00
Are you a UBC faculty or staff member interested in sustainability-related teaching and research? Whether you're new to UBC or looking to build deeper connections, the Centre for Interactive Research on Sustainability (CIRS) Open House is an excellent opportunity to expand your network and connect...
When:
Tuesday, November 19, 2024 - 13:00 to 15:00
Location:
Centre for Interactive Research on Sustainability
How can you use law to fight for nature’s rights and transform humanity’s relationships with other beings and the planet? Find out by participating in this 2-day, innovative, interactive, intensive, online learning experience as courageous “Warrior Lawyers,” Indigenous legal knowledge holders and...
When:
Sunday, November 17, 2024 - 08:00 to 15:00
Location:
Online/Virtual Event
xChange 2024: Engineering A Greener Tomorrow , hosted by Engineers Without Borders (EWB) Canada and the UBC Chapter of EWB, will focus on building a sustainable future for communities in BC through inclusive climate solutions. The event will be held at the Centre for Interactive Research on...
When:
Saturday, November 16, 2024 - 08:30