The Waterloo Climate Institute and Waterloo's North Campus Community Garden (NCCG) share a common interest in exploring the nexus between food production (and eating!) and climate action.
Waterloo Climate Institute Member Kelsey Leonard receives the first national healing forest designation in Waterloo - The David Suzuki Foundation and the National Healing Forests Initiative recognize a campus urban forest for its spiritual connection and healing properties. This designation supports the university's commitments to decolonization, Indigenization, and reconciliation.
Dr. Neil Craik, law professor in the School of Environment, Enterprise and Development and Waterloo Climate Interventions Strategies Lab member, is part of a growing area of research critically assessing the impacts and governance challenges of large-scale climate interventions in the world’s oceans.
A team from Waterloo Engineering has won an international competition aimed at advancing the state-of-the-art in the mapping of sea ice.
The summer school, open to students and professionals, offers daily, one-hour online sessions, from June 5 to June 23, 2023, showcasing leading-edge thinking and understanding from a wide array of University of Waterloo professors focusing on the intersection between climate, water, and energy.
At the fall 2022 Climate Change Hackathon, seven interdisciplinary student teams presented solutions to climate change problem spaces at the final pitch competition. The teams were mentored by Waterloo Climate Institute members Dr. Juan Moreno-Cruz, Dr. Marta Berbés-Blázquez, and Dr. Joyce Kim, including the winning team H2GRO who secured the top prize of $5,000!
The Assembly of First Nations Second National Climate Gathering, Preserving our Earth, Land and Water for Future Generations, took place from September 27 to 29, 2022 in Fredericton, New Brunswick on the traditional unceded territory of the Wolastoqiyik, Mi’kmaq and Peskotomuhkati peoples. It was an opportunity to bring together First Nations experts, leadership, youth, women, Knowledge Keepers and other professionals from across Turtle Island to work on climate change. Katherine Allaby, a Master of Environmental Studies in Geography student, supervised by Waterloo Climate Institute member, Brent Doberstein, attended the Climate Gathering and shared her key takeaways with the institute.
Climate Students, the Waterloo Climate Institute's student-led group that facilitates research, education, and action on climate change at the University of Waterloo, in the community, and on the global stage, is recruiting. Undergraduate and graduate students interested in an executive member role are encouraged to apply before October 14.
The Waterloo Climate Institute has partnered with Velocity to bring you the Climate Change Hackathon - an opportunity for students to work in interdisciplinary teams to present solutions to climate change problem spaces for a chance to win $5,000! No technical skills are required. All undergraduate and graduate students are encouraged to register by October 14 at 5 p.m.
From November 6 to 18, 2022 the world will gather in Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt for the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) 27th Session of the Conference of the Parties (COP27) with a view to building on previous successes and paving the way for future ambition. On behalf of the University of Waterloo community, the Waterloo Climate Institute will lead a delegation to COP27 to engage with governments and non-government observers from around the world. Delegation applications are now open and two graduate students and one Climate Institute member will be selected to participate.