Fri, January 15, 2021 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM See description. The Environmental Performance Index: What can data-driven analyses teach us about sustainability policy around the world? Speaker: Dr. Martin Wolf, postdoctoral associate, Yale Center for Environmental Law and Policy The Environmental...
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.
Built Environment & Mobility
Climate Change & Energy
Ecological Systems
Human Well-being & Social Systems
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...
Ecological grief, Messy Hope & Healing
Climate Change & Energy
Human Well-being & Social Systems
The right to food? Conservation, access, and food security
Ecological Systems
Production, Consumption & Waste
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
Past Events
When:
Friday, January 15, 2021 - 11:00
WEBINAR: Synthetic Organic Chemistry in Water Join Bruce H. Lipshutz for a presentation addressing the unsustainable nature of modern organic chemistry – particularly synthesis – and new technologies that address several important, representative reactions from both synthetic and environmental...
When:
Tuesday, January 12, 2021 - 12:30 to 13:30
Location:
Online event
WEBINAR: Diversity in Engineering: Synergies with Decarbonization & Building Science Join Brittany Coughlin for her presentation highlighting synergistic strategies for advancing energy efficient, low carbon building designs, alongside ideas for advancing diversity in the workplace. Mitigating...
When:
Tuesday, December 1, 2020 - 12:30 to 13:30
Location:
Online event
Fri, November 27, 2020 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM See description. IOF Seminar Series Speaker: Dr. Andrea Frommel, Assistant Professor, UBC Land and Food Systems This talk aims to integrate two traditionally disparate fields, climate change and aquaculture. With the rapidly expanding aquaculture industry...
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Friday, November 27, 2020 - 11:00
Thu, November 26, 2020 9:00 AM - 10:00 AM See description. Are you interested in the Master of Urban Forestry Leadership (MUFL)? Are you thinking about applying? Come learn more about MUFL and ask questions to the Program Director and Coordinator. About MUFL Understand our urban ecology and how to...
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Thursday, November 26, 2020 - 09:00
Tue, November 24, 2020 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM See description. Are you interested in the Master of Geomatics for Environmental Management (MGEM)? Are you thinking about applying? Come learn more about MGEM and ask questions to the Program Director and Coordinator. About MGEM To solve the world’s biggest...
When:
Tuesday, November 24, 2020 - 13:00
Fri, November 20, 2020 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM See description. IOF Seminar Series Speaker: Karen Sack President & CEO, Ocean Unite Co-Chair, Ocean Risk and Resilience Action Alliance The Ocean which feeds us and regulates our climate is changing at the fastest rate in human history. Eight hundred...
When:
Friday, November 20, 2020 - 11:00
WEBINAR: Infrastructure Resilience Under Climate Uncertainty Join Dr. Costa Samaras in a discussion about how infrastructure managers, engineers, researchers, and policymakers can manage uncertainty and ensure climate-safe infrastructure systems for the 21st century and beyond. Characterizing...
When:
Tuesday, November 17, 2020 - 12:30 to 13:30
Location:
Online event
Fri, November 13, 2020 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM See description. IOF Seminar Series: http://bit.ly/IOFseminars Speaker: Dr. Dana Miller, Senior Policy Advisor, Oceana Europe Given existing weaknesses in international frameworks for fisheries governance, illegal, unreported and unregulated (IUU) fishing...
When:
Friday, November 13, 2020 - 11:00
Fri, November 6, 2020 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM See description. IOF Seminar Series: http://bit.ly/IOFseminars Speaker: Dr. Boris Worm is a Killam Research Professor in Marine Conservation Biology at Dalhousie University In this presentation Dr. Boris Worm will argue that humanity has reached a critical...
When:
Friday, November 6, 2020 - 11:00