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.

Events by Date

Past Events

Tue, January 14, 2014 12:30 PM - 1:30 PM AQUATIC ECOSYSTEMS RESEARCH LABORATORY (AERL). IRES seminar series showcase the work of our graduate students as well as our internal and external guests. The seminars will run on Tuesdays from 12:30pm-1:30pm in AERL 120.
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Tuesday, January 14, 2014 - 12:30
Mon, January 13, 2014 11:30 AM - 2:15 PM SIMON K.Y. LEE HKU-UBC HOUSE (GLOBAL LOUNGE) - BUILDING #1. For T b'shvat, the Jewish holiday celebrating the first trees that grow in Israel, the Jewish Students Association always commemorates it with Green Week. This year, one of our events is going to be...
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Monday, January 13, 2014 - 11:30
Tue, January 7, 2014 12:30 PM - 1:30 PM AQUATIC ECOSYSTEMS RESEARCH LABORATORY (AERL). IRES seminar series showcase the work of our graduate students as well as our internal and external guests. The seminars will run on Tuesdays from 12:30pm-1:30pm in AERL 120.
When:
Tuesday, January 7, 2014 - 12:30
Fri, December 6, 2013 12:00 AM - 12:00 AM Engineering, Management and Education Building. The Faculty of Education is collaborating with Stanford School of Medicine. The Compassion and Technology Conference at Stanford is an innovative conference presented by the Center for Compassion and Altruism...
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Friday, December 6, 2013 - 00:00
Thu, December 5, 2013 1:00 PM - 3:00 PM WALTER C. KOERNER LIBRARY. free . If you need to manage large numbers of references and citations as part of your research, teaching or administrative work, citation management tools are for you. These tools provide a simple way to store, organize and...
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Thursday, December 5, 2013 - 13:00
Mon, December 2, 2013 9:00 AM - 11:00 AM WALTER C. KOERNER LIBRARY. free . If you need to manage large numbers of references and citations as part of your research, teaching or administrative work, citation management tools are for you. These tools provide a simple way to store, organize and...
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Monday, December 2, 2013 - 09:00
Fri, November 29, 2013 12:30 PM - 1:30 PM SCHOOL OF POPULATION AND PUBLIC HEALTH. Speaker: Anne Jopling, Robin van Driel, Occupational Hygiene Officers, WorkSafe BC Location: B151, SPPH Building, 2206 East Mall
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Friday, November 29, 2013 - 12:30
Tue, November 26, 2013 11:30 AM - 12:30 PM Earth Sciences Building. The Coast to Coast Seminar Series presents talks on a range of scientific topics, hosting researchers from institutions across North America. This session will host Dr. Alex Mihailidis, Associate Professor with the University of...
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Tuesday, November 26, 2013 - 11:30
Tue, November 26, 2013 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM WOODWARD LIBRARY. free . If you need to manage large numbers of references and citations as part of your research, teaching or administrative work, citation management tools are for you. These tools provide a simple way to store, organize and retrieve your...
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Tuesday, November 26, 2013 - 10:00
Fri, November 22, 2013 12:30 PM - 1:30 PM SCHOOL OF POPULATION AND PUBLIC HEALTH. Speaker: Paul VanBuynder, Chief Medical Health Officer, Fraser Health Authority Location: B151, SPPH Building, 2206 East Mall
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Friday, November 22, 2013 - 12:30

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