Join this Innovation Skills Workshop co-hosted by the Waterloo Climate Institute Climate Leaders’ program and GreenHouse Changemaker Labs to address climate change. In small groups, participants will explore the design thinking principles and will ideate solutions and recommendations for campus climate action! GreenHouse staff and student innovators will facilitate this process, with concrete opportunities to launch ideas you might develop.
Join the Waterloo Climate Institute for a panel discussion and interactive break-out session with different practitioners in the health system. Discussion will centre around how health practitioners can bring climate change into their health practices. Speakers include: Sharon Kirkpatrick, Warren Dodd, Myeengun Henry, Huda Nasir, Josalyn Radcliffe, and Aline De Souza. - On Campus - Wednesday, January 24th at 3:00PM to 4:30PM -
Join the Waterloo Climate Institute for Climate Leaders 101 on September 13th at 11:30am.
Learn about sustainable lifestyle practices, like meal planning, food waste and fashion.
UWaterloo's Climate Students present "Negotiating Our Future: International Climate Negotiations" a virtual event on March 11, from 5:30-8:30pm EST.
This is a smaller interactive event with limited registration, so please RSVPin advance. This event will be hosted on Zoom and is open to all UWaterloo undergraduate and graduate students.
World Wide Views on Climate and Energy is a global citizen consultation that will be held on June 6th, 2015. One of the Canadian chapters of this worldwide event will be held in Waterloo, ON.
On June 6, beginning at dawn in the Pacific Islands and ending at dusk in the West Coast of the United States, citizens around the world will take part in the largest ever public consultation on climate change and energy. Citizens will be asked an identical set of questions on climate change and energy policy, targets, and measures.
Why are the upcoming UN Climate Negotiations important?
The twenty-first session of the conference of the parties (COP21) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change will be held in Paris in December 2015. COP21 is considered to be a pivotal moment in international climate negotiations, with the objective to achieve, for the first time in over 20 years, a binding and universal agreement on climate, from all the nations of the world.
An interdisciplinary, international, workshop
A two-day workshop event hosted by the Balsillie School of International Affairs aimed at providing an ideal forum for discussing the challenging methodological and governance questions of how we are adapting and how good current policies and practices are at tackling the water-related impacts of climate change.