Events

Come out to meet and network with sustainability-minded organizations and groups from on and off campus! Learn about what they're up to and how you could potentially get involved!

If you're interested in learning more about innovative and creative initiatives, come listen to fellow students pitch their sustainability ideas! Speakers from the Waterloo community will also be sharing their experiences in sustainability.

As the 22nd Session of the Conference of Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP22) kicks off in Morocco on Monday, November 7th, come out to watch Leonardo DiCaprio’s latest documentary, Before the Flood, which follows his three-year journey exploring the subject of climate change. Watch the trailer here. 

Interested in following the action at the 22nd Session of the Conference of Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP22) and getting involved right here at home? Attend the first of two scheduled Skype sessions with UWaterloo's student delegates in Morocco!

Interested in following the action at the 22nd Session of the Conference of Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP22) and getting involved right here at home? Attend the second scheduled Skype session with UWaterloo's student delegates in Morocco!

It has been one year since the countries of the world agreed, for the first time, to act collectively on climate change. Since then, focus has turned to questions of implementation. How can the Paris Agreement successfully be put into action at the global scale, in our country, and in our communities? Are current actions ‘good enough’ to get us to the goal of limiting global warming to less than 2 degrees Celsius by the end of the century?

Join us for a panel discussion on November 28^th to hear reflections from policy experts and students who were at COP22 in Morocco earlier this month.

Interested in following the action at the 24th Session of the Conference of Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP24) and getting involved right here at home? Attend a scheduled Skype session with UWaterloo's student delegates in Katowice, Poland!

Our news is daily filled with reports of severe, weather-related events and disasters. Earth keeps getting warmer but the world remains cool to taking the necessary action to curb carbon emissions. Most of us now believe climate change is real. But shrinking denial has given way to growing despair. Can we win this fight? Honestly?

Dalton McGuinty

Join the Waterloo Institute for Sustainable Energy (WISE) and the Interdisciplinary Centre on Climate Change (IC3) in hosting Tom Rand for his talk - Waking the Frog: Building a Renewed Climate Capitalism.

Venture capitalist, entrepreneur, engineer, and philosopher Tom Rand explains why climate disruption might just be our very own pot of hot water.