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The World Health Organization (WHO) latest report, Measuring the Climate Resilience of Health Systems, supports efforts to prepare for the health systems challenges posed by climate change. Read the report co-authored by IC3 member Peter Berry and University of Waterloo PhD candidate Paddy Enright.

Entrepreneur Phil Caravaggio has gifted the Interdisciplinary Centre on Climate Change $240,000 to help share discoveries in climate science.   

Congratulations to the top three winter 2022 Waterloo Experience (WE) Accelerate winning teams: Trees4Seas, Community Solar and Blu-Wave! These teams were awarded $10,000 in prize money for their proposed innovative solutions to climate change issues in core areas identified by IC3. 

Hope and awareness are crucial ingredients for widespread climate action. Therefore, this Earth Day, IC3 is sharing how three of our members stay motivated to tackle the climate crisis and where they find inspiration in the article Recognizing Earth Day with Hope and Awareness.

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has released the third report for its sixth major assessment of the science of climate change; Climate Change 2022: Mitigation of Climate Change. Sarah Burch, Executive Director at IC3 and professor of Geography and Environmental Management, is a lead author for Chapter 17: Accelerating the transition in the context of sustainable development. Learn more about where we are in terms of our global greenhouse gas emissions and Burch's contributions. 

On March 9, the University of Waterloo's Interdisciplinary Centre on Climate Change hosted an informative discussion on the findings of Health Canada's latest national report, Health of Canadians in a Changing Climate. The lead authors, Peter Berry, Rebekka Schnitter and Paddy Enright, reflected on key insights from the wide-ranging report and highlighted the priority knowledge gaps facing Canadians. This was followed by a Q&A with a panel of Waterloo's climate change and health experts, moderated by Dean of Faculty of Health, Lili Liu. Learn more about the key findings from the authors and the reflections from IC3 climate change experts. 

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has released the second report for its sixth major assessment of the science of climate change; Climate Change 2022: Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability. Hannah Tait Neufeld, IC3 member and Assistant Professor, School of Public Health Sciences, is a contributing author for chapter 7. She discusses the impacts to Indigenous Peoples’ health and wellbeing in a changing climate. 

A new study co-authored by IC3 member Nandita Basu shows that human-managed streams in Canada and the U.S. have been found to have significantly different flow patterns compared to streams in natural watersheds. 

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) will release the third report as part of its sixth major assessment of the science of climate change, Climate Change 2022: Mitigation of Climate Change, on Monday, April 4. Sarah Burch, IC3 Executive Director and Canada Research Chair in Sustainability Governance and Innovation, is a Lead Author for Chapter 17: Accelerating the transition in the context of sustainable development, and a contributing author for Chapter 13: National and subnational policies and institutions.

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has released the second report for its sixth major assessment of the science of climate change; Climate Change 2022: Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability. Robert McLeman, IC3 member and Professor of Geography and Environmental Studies at Wilfrid Laurier University, is a Coordinating Lead Author for Chapter 7: Health, wellbeing and the changing structure of communities. He discusses the chapter’s findings and their impacts on Canada and around the world.