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IC3 member and Associate Professor Angela Carter joins CBC host Laura Lynch on the CBC Radio podcast What on Earth. In the episode “Canada’s climate policy has an oil and gas problem” Angela Carter discusses her recent report “Correcting Canada’s “one eye shut” climate policy”, which highlights the need to begin the phase out of oil and gas production.

Sarah Burch, IC3 member and Associate Professor in the Faculty of Environment, receives the Clean50 Individual award for 2021. Sarah is recognized for her incredible international research partnership TRANSFORM.

A team of Waterloo researchers led by Geography and Environmental Management Professor and IC3 member, Merrin Macrae, are proposing a five‐step plan to provide guidance and bring regionally‐tailored, adaptive and cost‐conscious conservation practices into watershed planning.

Fighting against the harmful effects of climate change can take many different forms. Reducing, reusing, and recycling are helpful and have been staples of eco-friendly campaigns for decades, but with technological advances and an increased urgency we as a species must do more.

Waterloo’s Juan Moreno-Cruz is a member of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine(NASEM) committee who developed the report on Solar Geoengineering (SG): “Reflecting Sunlight: Recommendations for Solar Geoengineering Research and Research Governance”

The Association of Commonwealth Universities has announced the new Commonwealth Futures Climate Research Cohort. This cohort includes 26 researchers who will be working to accelerate climate action in the lead-up to the 26th United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP26).

Our climate crisis is often considered a scientific or technical problem, but IC3 member, Imre Szeman, argues that it's fundamentally a cultural one.

Congratulations to Monica Emelko, an IC3 member and professor of civil and environmental engineering, who has been awarded more than $3.5 million from the Canada Foundation for Innovation (CFI) through its Innovation Fund. This funding will help analyze threats to the quality of drinking water and year-round access to, and instrumentation for, watershed observatories.

In January 2021, IC3 partnered with UWaterloo's Concept and Problem Lab to launch the Climate Innovation Discovery Stream. Throughout the 3 week program, students from across campus spent their time researching climate change related problems and developing potential innovative solutions.

With spring around the corner, Canadian cities score an uninspiring C+ on flood preparedness, the costliest type of natural disaster, a new national study has found. The study, conducted by the Intact Centre on Climate Adaptation at the University of Waterloo, shows that many cities have made little progress to limit their risk of flooding over the past five years.