Dr. Hannah Wittman Awarded UBC Killam Research Fellowship
Congratulations to Dr. Hannah Wittman, Professor at the UBC Institute for Resources, Environment and Sustainability (IRES) and the UBC Faculty of Land and Food Systems (LFS), for being awarded a UBC Killam Research Fellowship.
Bridging science and policy: UBC scientists are building relationships with Canada’s political leaders
Q&A with Dr. Jiaying Zhao, Associate Professor, UBC Department of Psychology and UBC Institute for Resources, Environment and Sustainability, on a new partnership program, Science Meets Parliament (SMP), where scientific delegates met directly with policy decision-makers for the first time in Canadian history.
Understanding The Great Climate Science Scenario Debate
Forbes quoted Justin Ritchie and Hadi Dowlatabadi from UBC’s Institute for Resources, Environment and Sustainability at UBC, about the RCP8.5 pathway.
We may avoid the very worst climate scenario. But the next-worst is still pretty awful.
Hadi Dowlatabadi, a professor at the Institute for Resources, Environment and Sustainability at UBC, says the levels of coal use in the high-end warming scenario were always implausible given the world’s coal reserves.
Ottawa closer to single-use plastic ban after finishing science assessment
UBC environmental lawyer David Boyd says Canada needs to take action to match the rhetoric about the single-use plastic ban.