Climate Solutions Research Collective Annual Kickoff – Featuring David Boyd | Sept 11 2pm
Join the Climate Solutions Research Collective for the launch of its third year as we gather with colleagues to discuss critical issues related to climate solutions and how the community can contribute through research.
Emily Shilton, IRES alumna, sounds alarm on vaping as Canada’s “addictive e-waste problem”
Shilton's research reveals how nicotine vaping devices—small, battery-powered electronics—are slipping through regulatory cracks, causing serious environmental concerns.
December 4, 2025: IRES Student Seminar with Manvi Bhalla
IRES grad student Manvi Bhalla will present her research on how South Asian immigrants in Canada face environmental injustice and why their voices must be centered in the country’s new environmental justice strategy.
November 27, 2025: IRES Faculty Seminar with Dr. Alex Tavasoli
This seminar tackles the challenges of green manufacturing and explores how solar-powered CO₂ conversion and community-driven strategies can jumpstart a more sustainable materials economy.
November 20, 2025: IRES Professional Development Seminar with Larissa Darc
From lab bench to fieldwork…this talk unpacks the leap from academia to environmental consulting.
November 13, 2025: IRES Faculty Seminar with Dr. Phurwa Dolpopa
Talk details will be announced closer to the date.
November 6, 2025: IRES Student Seminar with Clare Price and Sveinar Soldal
Join us for our upcoming seminar, given by two IRES grad students! Topics: impacts of urban noise on human perception and well-being, and, the emergence of renewable electricity policy in Norway and Alberta
October 30, 2025: IRES Faculty Seminar with Dr. Kees Lokman
Dr. Kees Lokman will speak on coastal adaptation led by Indigenous values, cultural revival, and ecological care.
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 16, 2025: IRES Faculty Seminar with Dr. Andrew Jorgenson
How does militarization drive climate change? Our next seminar explores how military power fuels global carbon emissions—from national growth patterns to U.S. defense spending and outsourced pollution.
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.
UBC Micro-certificate in Climate Action Planning | Info session Aug 19 12pm
Learn how this new part-time program provides a basic understanding of climate science, impacts and policies, and helps you identify key stakeholders related to specific aspects and locations that interest you.
3 PhD & 2 Postdoc positions at UCLouvain with former IRES visiting prof Patrick Meyfroidt
Announcing positions at UCLouvain in collab with IRES's Navin Ramankutty! Examining land use and democratic backsliding via cross-country studies + cases in Europe, Canada (northern BC & AB, YT & NT), Mozambique.
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