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Tarun Khanna
Assistant Professor, School of Public Policy and Global Affairs
Scientists Flag Conflicts of Interest Ahead of UN Plastic and Chemical Talks
An international group of 35 scientists, including IRES’s Gunilla Öberg, is calling out conflicts of interest plaguing global plastic treaty negotiations and that have interfered with timely action on other health and environmental issues. They urge the implementation of strict guidelines to prevent the same problems from affecting the UN’s upcoming Science Policy Panel on chemicals.
New report on urban bats in Vancouver from grad student Daniel Forrest and alum Julia Craig
With funding from UBC’s Ocean Leaders program and the City, Forrest and Craig used bats as an exemplary group to identify existing supportive ecosystems (bat “hotspots”), areas that could or currently connect those ecosystems, and interventions which might help contribute to both.
IRES’s Dr. Jiaying Zhao to testify in the Canadian Senate on the basic income bill Tuesday, October 17th 2023
Zhao (she/her) will serve as an expert witness supporting Bill S-233, an Act to develop a national framework for a guaranteed livable basic income.
Alex Moore
Assistant Professor, Department of Forest and Conservation Sciences;
Assistant Professor, Department of Botany
Clare Price
Trip Co-Coordinator
Ka Lai Or
Social Co-Coordinator
Kate Lai Reynolds
Seminar Series Co-Coordinator
Vicky Lucas
Seminar Series Co-Coordinator
Sveinar Soldal
Master’s Representative