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UBC Micro-certificate in Climate Action Planning | Info session Aug 19 12pm
Learn how this new part-time program provides a basic understanding of climate science, impacts and policies, and helps you identify key stakeholders related to specific aspects and locations that interest you.
3 PhD & 2 Postdoc positions at UCLouvain with former IRES visiting prof Patrick Meyfroidt
Announcing positions at UCLouvain in collab with IRES’s Navin Ramankutty! Examining land use and democratic backsliding via cross-country studies + cases in Europe, Canada (northern BC & AB, YT & NT), Mozambique.
Hamish van der Ven
Assistant Professor, Department of Wood Science, Faculty of Forestry
Two global Frontiers Planet Prize winners call for a future of diversified farming
For James and Klassen, who were PhD students at IRES while contributing to the award-winning study, what matters most is what comes next. Will the world be willing to do the hard work of supporting farmers diversify their practices?
Rethinking agricultural data through a justice lens
Governments are increasingly asking farmers to share more data, especially around environmental concerns like nutrient management. And the private sector is racing ahead with new digital tools. But the question remains: who benefits?
Climate Conversations UBC Botanical Garden | May 22, 8:45am to 4:45pm
IRES’s Dr. Kai Chan will be one of the expert panelists speaking alongside Keynote Speaker Lisa Brideau, author of Adrift (winner of the 2024 Evergreen Award) and senior sustainability specialist with the City of Vancouver.
Rita Amisano
Director, Administration and Operations
Farm-diversification research wins high kudos
An international group of researchers, including IRES alum and current faculty, are named U.S. national champions of the Frontiers Planet Prize for research that finds environmental and social benefits of agricultural diversification.
Q&A: How maritime experts are charting a course to cut emissions by 40% per shipment by 2030
While international shipping accounts for over 3% of global greenhouse gas emissions, there’s optimistic news emerging from the experts working to decarbonize this critical sector. According to a new study by IRES’s Imranul Laskar, Dr. Hadi Dowlatabadi and Dr. Amanda Giang, many experts in the shipping sector are confident in the possibility of meeting short-term […]
Solid Carbon receiving $24 million to advance ocean-based carbon dioxide removal
Dr. Terre Satterfield is co-leading a $24-million initiative over six years through the Government of Canada’s NFRF to advance the Solid Carbon research project—one of the most promising ocean-based carbon dioxide removal (CDR) initiatives of the modern era to combat the climate crisis.