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
Policy, Economics & Governance
Production, Consumption & Waste
Presented by the UBC Sustainability Scholars Program: A conference on urban sustainability research What happens when you give bright and engaged students real-world sustainability problems to solve? UBC Sustainability Scholars are helping to...

Sustainability Education Fellows Information Session

Sustainability Photo Pop-Up Exhibition

Climate Change & Energy
Ecological Systems

Plug Yourself into UBC Research: a Series for Undergraduate Students

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.

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Past Events

Fri, March 6, 2020 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM AQUATIC ECOSYSTEMS RESEARCH LABORATORY (AERL). Speaker: Jeffrey Whiting President & Founder Artists for Conservation Foundation As the world’s leading group of visual artists supporting the environment, Artists for Conservation’s mission is to support...
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Friday, March 6, 2020 - 11:00
Fri, March 6, 2020 10:00 AM - 3:00 PM UBC Vancouver Campus. Free. Finishing off the week of engagement with the Sustainable Development Goals, UBC Sustainability is partnering up with the UBC SDG Alliance to deliver a panel and roundtable discussion on the roles students, faculty and staff play in...
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Friday, March 6, 2020 - 10:00
Mon, March 2, 2020 10:00 AM - Sat, March 7, 2020, 11:00 AM UBC Vancouver Campus. Free. The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are a collection of 17 global goals set by the United Nations General Assembly and adopted by countries around the world. They are a universal call to action to end...
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Monday, March 2, 2020 - 10:00
Fri, February 28, 2020 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM AQUATIC ECOSYSTEMS RESEARCH LABORATORY (AERL). IOF Seminar Series Speaker: Dr. Jennifer Sunday Assistant Professor, McGill University As the world has warmed, species distributions have moved polewards in latitude, upwards in elevation and deeper in depth...
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Friday, February 28, 2020 - 11:00
Tue, February 25, 2020 10:00 AM - 3:00 PM UBC Vancouver Campus. free. Amnesty International UBC is proud to present our annual human rights conference for 2020, “Whose Body? Bridging the Disconnect between Rights and Reality”. Mark your calendars for Saturday, February 29th, from 10:00am-3:00pm,...
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Tuesday, February 25, 2020 - 10:00
Fri, February 14, 2020 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM AQUATIC ECOSYSTEMS RESEARCH LABORATORY (AERL). IOF Seminar Series Speaker: Sharon Wu Managing Director, Research Support Services UBC Office of Research Services Location: AERL Theatre
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Friday, February 14, 2020 - 11:00
Mon, February 10, 2020 5:00 PM - 8:00 PM AQUATIC ECOSYSTEMS RESEARCH LABORATORY (AERL). A looming disaster in one of the most spectacular environments on Earth sparks a rescue mission unlike any other in SEA OF SHADOWS, a riveting new documentary with the intensity of a Hollywood thriller from...
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Monday, February 10, 2020 - 17:00
Mon, February 10, 2020 5:00 PM - 6:30 PM UBC Vancouver Campus. Free. Environment, Power and Justice in Southern Africa James Machobane, Environmental Justice and the Problem of Sustainable Farming in Lesotho, Southern Africa Chris Conz, African History, Tufts University 5-6:30 pm, Coach House,...
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Monday, February 10, 2020 - 17:00
Fri, February 7, 2020 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM AQUATIC ECOSYSTEMS RESEARCH LABORATORY (AERL). IOF Seminar Series Speaker: Kyra St-Pierre Postdoctoral Fellow, Pelagic Ecosystems Lab Climate change is occurring more dramatically across northern regions than anywhere else on the planet. Warming and wetting...
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Friday, February 7, 2020 - 11:00
Thu, February 6, 2020 5:00 PM - 6:30 PM UBC Vancouver Campus. Free. Green College Leading Scholars' Series: Challenging Differences Do We Have a Moral Duty to Protect the Environment? It’s Complicated! Fionn Byrne, Architecture and Landscape Architecture; Emily Kennedy, Sociology; Nadja Kunz,...
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Thursday, February 6, 2020 - 17:00

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