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Sybil Seitzinger, executive director of the University of Victoria (UVic)-led Pacific Institute for Climate Solutions (PICS), has been nominated to deliver the prestigious Harald Ulrik Sverdrup Lecture later this week at the Ocean Sciences Meeting of the American Geophysical Union in Portland, Or

Powering your home with solar panels to go off the grid may seem like an ideal way to save money and combat climate change. But just how feasible is it?

British Columbia’s forestry sector can potentially make a major contribution to meeting the province’s climate targets through using a mix of regionally-specific harvest and stand management techniques, bioenergy investments and creating more long-lived wood products.

British Columbia now has enough detailed information about the height, frequency and direction of its coastal waves to start developing and testing wave energy converters in the ocean, according to a new report released at an energy conference at the University of Victoria today.

Province needs significant increase in efforts to cut carbon pollution, modeling shows

Want to encourage climate-friendly behaviour, but not sure how to motivate change?

Recent proposals to use British Columbia hydropower as a substitute for coal power in Alberta should be viewed in the context of new research showing that in the long-term, BC has little energy to spare, and that an

In a rare bit of good climate change news, scientists have found that trees are growing faster in British Columbia due to global warming, and this is starting to counter the carbon-loss impacts of the province’s devastating mountain pine beetle (MPB) outbreak.

What lessons can British Columbia learn from the current electric vehicle revolution in Norway?

Stronger commitment to "net-zero" buildings could create jobs, grow the economy, and help the province meet it's climate targets.

A special report analyzing what works—and what doesn't—for motivating people to take action on climate change has been released today by the Pacific Institute for Climate Solutions (PICS).

Replacing fossil fuel investments with “green energy” stocks has minimal impact on reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, and is also unlikely to provide a safer haven for investors.