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October 23, 2025: IRES Professional Development Seminar with Shaochen Yuan
This talk offers an insider’s take on how Schneider Electric embeds decarbonization, circular design, and innovation into every layer of its global strategy.
October 9, 2025: IRES Student Seminar with Mauricio Carvallo
How can cities adapt to rising seas and uncertain futures? IRES’s Mauricio Carvallo uses Surrey’s climate planning as a case study to show how flexible, cost-aware strategies can help protect farms, homes, and infrastructure from coastal flooding.
October 2, 2025: IRES Faculty Seminar with Dr. Juliet Lu
How is the EU’s anti-deforestation law landing in Southeast Asia?
This talk explores the backlash against the EUDR in rubber-producing countries and what it reveals about global power imbalances in sustainability policy.
September 18, 2025: IRES Faculty Seminar with Dr. Kate Harriden and Dr. Katie O’Bryan
Exploring aqua nullius—the systemic exclusion of Indigenous water rights and science—this talk examines how it functions as a critical tool of colonisation, how it impacts Indigenous women’s water rights, and how, through this focus, it aims to reassert the possibilities for reforming settler-state legal and governance systems to ensure Indigenous women’s sovereignty, water rights, and obligations.
September 25, 2025: IRES Professional Development Seminar with Nivi Thatra
Help improve the reach of your research and your skills!
IRES’s Communications Manager will offer tips for writing lay abstracts, creating a graphical abstract, and refining your online presence
As the World Confronts Climate Change, the US Leaves Our Future Behind
Former and current UN special rapporteurs David Boyd and Elisa Morgera are featured in The Nation, noting that a recent opinion from the Inter-American Court of Human Rights fails to call directly for broad fossil fuel phaseout.
September 11, 2025: IRES Student Seminar with Victor Cardenas (First Seminar in Term 1)
Exploring how climate change impacts the lending capacity of microfinance institutions (MFIs) to smallholder farmers (SHFs), this talk will analyze global trends in physical climate risk—particularly tropical storms and floods—and their effects on 4,500 MFIs under various climate scenarios.
World’s top court paves way for climate reparations
“The court’s clear and detailed articulation of state obligations will be a catalyst for accelerated climate action and unprecedented accountability,” Dr. David Boyd responds to the International Court of Justice’s historic statement that climate change is an urgent and existential threat and countries have a legal duty to prevent harm from their planet-warming pollution in France 24.
Want a Carbon Fix? It’s Closer than You Think
Carbon sequestration solutions like kelp and forests do more than just capture carbon. Dr. Kai Chan is featured in the Tyee for his advice on the benefits carbon sequestration can have on both animals and overall ecosystems
Jiaying Zhao helps people enjoy protecting the planet
Can we make meaningful climate action feel happy instead of miserable? Dr. Jiaying Zhao answers this and more in the American Psychological Association.