Safe Passage: BC Green Shipping Corridors Assessment
UVic project aims to transform shipping industry into a zero-carbon leader.
Cooling with Trees: Urban Tree Solutions for Tempering Climate Extremes
Tree-planting project aims to counteract increased heat in Vancouver through urban forests.
From Waste to Want: CO2 Conversion to Liquid Fuels and Solid Carbon Fibres
UBC-based Opportunity Project aims to reuse atmospheric carbon.
Fighting Fire with Food
Project led by Gitanyow Nation in collaboration with UBC researchers explores how cultural burning, planting practices protect against catastrophic wildfire.
Mountain community adaptation to changing snowpacks and geohazards
PICS-funded project aims to give mountain communities tools to face changing landscapes.
Serving Rural & Remote Communities: Co-developing Place-Based Climate Resilient Solutions
The Serving Rural & Remote Communities: Co-developing Place-Based Climate Resilient Solutions centres rural and remote communities and what they need to flourish in the face of climate challenges.
Bulk buying electric vehicles for small fleets
Examining the barriers and opportunities associated with replacing gas-fuelled fleets with electric vehicles.
The circular economy: Maximizing the value of existing buildings, reducing GHG emissions
Extending the life of commercial real estate instead of tearing down and building new.
Waste not: Finding new ways to process biomass to reduce burning in forests and farms
Where there are humans, there is waste. Whether we’re milling steel, processing wood or growing crops, we produce byproducts, some of which have no additional use — yet.
It’s not just science: Making climate part of all education in British Columbia
The effects of climate change are extreme. They can be devastating. And increasingly, they’re all-encompassing, inescapable.