Climate Adaptation: Preparing Vancouver’s Workforce for Coastal Reality | July 14, 3:45pm
Amanda Giang is part of a panel on immediate climate risks & resilience for the PNW: sea level rise, extreme weather, infrastructure vulnerability. Resilience has become an operational necessity.
Yunfei Li explores new ways to engage people on climate change through Urban Future Walks
RES PhD student Yunfei Li wants to know whether there are more effective ways to engage people about our changing world. A walk through downtown Vancouver might be one of them.
Q&A with Sam Blackwell: How Plastic Sunset researchers are urging our government to mandate lint traps on our washers
IRES students and CoSphere colleagues have launched their Plastic Sunset campaign. We asked Sam Blackwell to tell us more.
UBC Micro-certificate in Climate Action Planning: Foundations, Finance and Implementation
This course is for local policy makers, planners, industry players and anyone interested in learning the foundation and practicalities of climate action planning—the goal of the program is to build capacity in different sectors to advance climate action. A background in climate change is not required!
Tons of Risk: Drs. Naia Ormaza Zulueta and David Boyd on the rise of illegal pesticide exports in Spain
In El Salto, Drs. Naia Ormaza Zulueta and David Boyd called out Spain’s double standard of exporting thousands of tonnes of pesticides banned in the EU to the Global South.
PICS highlights Charlotte Milne for her work advocating for Semá:th First Nation flood rights through mapping
Charlotte is reviewing First Nation flood mapping engagement efforts from across Canada to create a framework that outlines the variety of ways that Nations can engage in (or lead) different stages of flood mapping, across different types of maps.
Leaving the Playbook on the Sidelines: Sveinar Soldal on Sustainable Sports and the 2026 FIFA World Cup
Despite lofty promises, the upcoming World Cup is set to become the most emission-intensive sporting event in history.
EV Policy and Practice in Canada | Jan 28, 2026, 3:30-5pm
Join moderator Milind Kandlikar (Professor, School of Public Policy and Global Affairs, and IRES) and panelists Megan Lohmann (CEO at Community Energy Association) and Werner Antweiler (Associate Professor in the Sauder School of Business) as they discuss EV Policy and Practice in Canada. The panel will explore how the uptake of EVs in Canada is impacted by policy controls and other considerations, as well as explore the position of the industry at a national scale.
New book from Stephanie Chang: Legacy in the Landscape
Discover how urban growth drives disaster risk. This accessible book links tech, economy, and landscape with hazards, using a new Urban Risk Dynamics framework and six global cities to guide better planning.