Congratulations to the IRES 2021 Graduates!
Congratulations to our May Graduates! We wish you all the best in your future endeavours and can’t wait to see what amazing things you’ll go on to do. If you wish to check out the graduate theses & dissertations, please click here.
Plastics manufacturers seek to quash toxic designation in court
May 21, 2021: Dr. David Boyd gave comments to the Globe and Mail on plastics manufacturers taking the federal government to court after Ottawa designated their products as toxic.
Why Canada needs to think about accepting climate change refugees
May 21, 2021: In a new CBC article, Dr. David Boyd called on Canada to provide more development assistance in the global south to improve living conditions.
Stand.earth takes aim at Lululemon
May 12, 2021: Dr. Kai Chan commented on a Twitter campaign that is raising awareness about Lululemon’s use of coal in its clothing manufacturing process. He said that bigger industry-wide systematic problems need to be addressed, rather than the actions of single companies.
What Denver can learn from universal basic income tests in U.S. and Canada
May 11, 2021: Denver Post mentioned a research initiative by UBC and Foundations for Social Change, where Dr. Jiaying Zhao led the research team, that found a positive impact of giving direct cash transfers to homeless individuals.
How small-scale seafood supply chains adapt to COVID-19 disruptions
April 30, 2021: Dr. Sahir Advani, a postdoctoral research fellow at IRES, co-wrote about initial pandemic impacts and responses across small-scale seafood supply chains across the world.
India’s deepening water crisis at the heart of farm protests
April 28, 2021: Balsher Singh Sidhu, PhD student at IRES, gave comments about groundwater depletion in India and said small farmers spend increasingly more money to pump water for their crops and this is widening inequity.
‘War means blood’: Can a treaty stop Latin American activists being killed?
April 19, 2021: Dr. David Boyd was quoted in Reuters saying that the “groundbreaking” treaty could be “a life-saving game changer”.
When It Comes To Climate Change, Biases Affect Everyone
When communicating about climate change, the same information that draws the attention of certain groups can fail to pique the attention of others. For Wyoming Public Media, Dr. Jiaying Zhao explains that “a fact like ‘2020 was the hottest year in history, tied with 2016’ … is going to draw the attention of liberals but […]
The ongoing search for the perfect climate change metaphor
April 16, 2021: Dr. Kai Chan told CBC that scientists need to be much more in touch with their emotions and values, and ask themselves whether their actions are consistent with that emotion.