Events

The Waterloo Climate Institute's Climate Leaders program is hosting a full day conference tackling all aspects of climate action. The dynamic schedule will include presentations, workshops, hands-on art installations, performances, and poster-sessions.

The registration form is now OPEN! All students welcome!

How we feel about climate change is really important - so we need to think about it and measure it. There are a lot of words being used to describe how we feel about climate change: worry, anxiety, eco-anxiety, decreased well-being, and so on. This talk will be lead by Susan Elliott, Professor of Geography and Environmental Management. Susan Elliott's research interests are environment and health, the global environment, urban social geography,and philosophy and method in the social sciences.

Join the Waterloo Climate Institute and the Faculty of Mathematics for a guest lecture on the intricacies of how nitrogen cycling is represented within Earth System Models. Sian Kou-Giesbrecht from the University of Dalhousie will explore how the terrestrial carbon sink needs nutrients such as nitrogen to fuel plant growth and continue to sequester carbon. Find out more about how this complex set of interactions plays out in terrestrial ecosystems.

Holly Jean Buck, Assistant Professor of Environment and Sustainability at the University at Buffalo explores multiple methods (interviews, focus groups, discourse analysis, and participant-observation) to survey the US, discussing what post-covid political subcultures mean for climate politics broadly and the politics of solar geoengineering research in particular. 

Step into a space of meaningful conversations and refreshing mocktails at Climate Drinks! The Waterloo Climate Institute, invites you to unwind and engage in discussions about climate change. Savor free snacks and drinks as you connect with like-minded individuals and explore ways to make a positive impact on our planet. Don't miss this opportunity to mingle, learn, and sip on sustainability!

Join GreenHouse and the Climate Institute for a strawberry planting and social workshop. Each participant will take home a strawberry seedling to care for. We will explore the significance of the strawberry from the Haudenosaunee teachings and share a strawberry drink to celebrate spring.

Join the City of Waterloo’s Strategic Initiatives division as they outline the City’s integrated approach to reducing greenhouse gas emissions and adapting to climate change. This talk will cover a high-level overview of the City’s strategic plans and positioning in this space, as well as a deeper dive into their recently approved Corporate Climate Action Plan. The end of the presentation will focus on the challenges and opportunities with these actions and discussion on potential areas of research collaboration.

Join the Municipal Net-Zero Action Research Partnership (N-ZAP) for a webinar focused on the open source database and findings of a new report that shares insights from survey data collected from 256 Canadian Municipalities. Find out about the current state of climate action in Canadian municipalities, opportunities for use of the open access database, and the importance of municipal climate data.

* Available in simultaneous translation to French-language

Join the Waterloo Climate Institute and GreenHouse for a walking social! Participants will learn about different gardens and food growing initiatives on campus while munching on some local snacks.

Explore, socialize and share while learning about food insecurity, food deserts as well as Indigenous local land use in the Waterloo Region.

Meet people, enjoy snacks, connect!