Current students

The University of Waterloo is finishing their participation in an exciting new collaborative program, Climate Connect; involving 60+ students and 20+ researchers from across the world to gather and discuss climate change. IC3 member, Angela Carter, and IC3's managing director, Simon Glauser, reflected on the program's benefits with the help of upper-year students Simrit Dhillon, Nilusha Rattansi and Philip Zuidema.

Ailin Jalili is a Health Sciences student in her 3B term. In this blog post, she reflects on her experience taking part in the Climate Connect program.

Isha Rana, a master’s student at the School of Planning, attended COP25 United Nations Climate Change Conference in Madrid, Spain during fall 2019. This is her reflection from participating as a student delegate.

Lowine Hill, a PhD student in the School of Environment, Resources and Sustainability (SERS), attended COP25 United Nations Climate Change Conference in Madrid, Spain during fall 2019. This is her reflection from participating as a student delegate.

Valentina Castillo, a Master of Environmental Studies (MES) student in Sustainability Management, attended COP25 United Nations Climate Change Conference in Madrid, Spain during fall 2019. This is her reflection from participating as a student delegate.

Verity Martin,a student in the Masters of Political Science program, attended COP25 United Nations Climate Change Conference in Madrid, Spain during fall 2019. This is her reflection from participating as a student delegate.

Muhammad Koya, a graduate student in the Master of Environmental Studies, Sustainability Management program, attended COP25 United Nations Climate Change Conference in Madrid, Spain during fall 2019. This is his reflection from participating as a student delegate.

Brooklyn Rushton, a Masters of Climate Change student, attended COP25 United Nations Climate Change Conference in Madrid, Spain during fall 2019. This is her reflection from participating as a student delegate.

Janetta McKenzie, a PhD candidate in the Department of Geography & Environmental Management and working in the SPROUT lab with professor Sarah Burch, attended COP25 United Nations Climate Change Conference in Madrid, Spain during fall 2019. This is her reflection from participating as a student delegate.

From October 31 to November 12, the world will gather in Glasgow for the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) 26^th Session of the Conference of the Parties (COP26) to discuss and negotiate more ambitious action to meet the Paris Agreement commitments. On behalf of the University of Waterloo community, the Interdisciplinary Centre on Climate Change (IC3) will lead a virtual delegation to COP26 to engage with governments and non-government observers from around the world. Graduate student delegate applications are now open.

Current students

Making global connections to take on climate change

Shifting thinking of global warming as a ‘future' problem to a ‘now’ problem

We're aware of the issue, but we're missing the increased ambition to fight climate change together

If not us, who? If not now, when?

Lessons learned from COP25

Parties at COP25 have given themselves an excuse to delay action once again - they must not be allowed to use it

My source of hope for climate progress

There is strength in our social connections and relationship with nature

A lesson in balance

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