Events

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!

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.

The Federal Election is only weeks way! IC³ is bringing together four panelists to take a closer look at the main Party Platforms through the lens of climate change. 

Join us on October 10th from 10:00am-12:00pm to hear from our panelists as they evaluate the party platforms on a number of topic areas and share their overall rankings! Panel discussion will be followed by Q&A. 

Waterloo Region’s next climate strike event as well as the global UN Climate Change Conference (COP25) are right around the corner!

Joins us on November 29th for the event: Canada's International Climate Responsibilities: Our Role in Madrid. This community panel is part of Waterloo Region’s November Climate Strike (#ClimateStrikeWR).

Ideas to shape the future: Fighting climate change

Join us for an evening hosted by the University of Waterloo’s Interdisciplinary Centre on Climate Change (IC^₃) and Water Institute. One hour, seven topics, seven speakers, with seven minutes each. Leading experts from both institutes will share their knowledge and ideas on how climate change can be addressed at the individual, community, and global levels.

Part of The ALARM Dialogues.

The Canadian Coastal Resilience Forum and the Interdisciplinary Centre on Climate Change are pleased to present our inaugral documentary screening of the film Anthropocene: The Human Epoch. A cinematic meditation on humanity’s massive reengineering of the planet, ANTHROPOCENE: The Human Epoch is a four years in the making feature documentary film from the multiple-award winning team of Jennifer Baichwal, Nicholas de Pencier and Edward Burtynsky. The film follows the research of an international body of scientists, the Anthropocene Working Group who, after nearly 10 years of research, are arguing that the Holocene Epoch gave way to the Anthropocene Epoch in the mid-twentieth century, because of profound and lasting human changes to the Earth.

Hosted by the University of Waterloo's Faculty of Applied Health Sciences and the Interdisciplinary Centre on Climate Change (IC3), join us for an evening of hope and action: a screening of Beyond Crisis, Q&A with the film's director, followed by a reception with student groups and colleagues!