TED@Destination Canada featuring Dr. Jiaying Zhao
Huge congratulations to Dr. Jiaying Zhao for being chosen to give a TED talk!
The event in NYC will feature 14 of the brightest speakers and biggest changemakers connected to Canada, associated with the theme O P E N.
Feb 9, 5pm – 6:30pm | Sue Big Oil: A Made in BC Climate Campaign
IRES PhD student Manvi Bhalla will be speaking at Sue Big Oil: A Made-in-BC Climate Campaign!
In July 2022, Vancouver city councillors voted in favour of funding lawsuit against Canada’s biggest oil and gas companies. Check out this event to learn more about this movement!
Planning a Sustainable Campus: Balancing Growth and Climate Action at UBC
Join IRES’s Dr. Simon Donner for a presentation and moderated Q&A session on how UBC can balance growth with climate action on the Vancouver campus. The Q&A session will be moderated by IRES PhD student Zana Mody
Dec 1, 3:30pm – 5:30pm | Force of Nature x UBC Climate Café
In light of this COP and the stark absence of urgency in the negotiations, amidst the intensifying climate crisis, it is a normal response for us, especially as young people, to feel eco-anxiety. That is, feeling anxious and concerned about the future because of the state of our climate, and being overwhelmed by a sense of powerlessness in light of the colossal threat of climate change.
For this reason, we are very excited to announce that we will be organizing a Climate Café! This specific climate café series is an initiative started by Force of Nature, a youth-led NGO based in the UK to provide a space for folks to talk about all sorts of climate emotions during and around the vicinity of COP negotiations. On top of their incredible flagship cafe at London’s Natural History Museum, this initiative has inspired dozens of decentralized climate cafés around the world — ours included!
Dec 1, 6pm – 8pm | COP27 and the power of politics, people, and place
Join a post-COP27 event for an opportunity to hear from and speak with faculty and student delegates, including IRES’s Rudri Bhatt, who have just returned from climate negotiations in Sharm El Sheikh.
TEDx Surrey Featuring Dr. Kai Chan
IRES’s Dr. Kai Chan is speaking at TEDx Surrey on January 21st – join him and other compelling speakers for the event!
Climate Stories Featuring Dr. Amanda Giang
IRES’s Dr. Amanda Giang will be speaking about climate justice and sustainability at this Public Scholars Initiative event.
Professors call for more research into climate-change related threats to civilization
An opinion piece published today in the Proceedings of the National Academic of Sciences, a peer-reviewed journal of the National Academy of Sciences, urgently calls for more research into the specific pathways by which civilization could potentially collapse due to climate change. “Scientists have warned that climate change threatens the habitability of large regions of […]
Webinar: Backing youth leaders to #UnleashValues
For system change to confront the Climate-and-Ecological Crisis. In response to a culture that suppresses transformative efforts and visions, we need to #UnleashValues for a sustainable future. Join a webinar hosted by CoSphere to learn how easy it can be to amplify pro-sustainability values!
IRES welcomes new Director Dr. Navin Ramankutty
IRES is welcoming Dr. Navin Ramankutty as our new Director on July 1, 2022, for a four-year term. We are delighted that Navin has agreed to become the next Director of IRES! Navin is jointly appointed in the School of Public Policy and Global Affairs (SPPGA) in the Faculty of Arts and IRES in the […]