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The Interdisciplinary Centre on Climate Change's (IC3) Board of Directors has appointed Juan Moreno-Cruz, Monica Emelko and Francis Poulin as associate directors. They will help lead the development of IC3's research and educational programs in the three core areas: deep decarbonization and sustainability transitions, innovations in climate science and climate risks, resilience and adaptation. 

The Government of Canada has announced 43 Canada Research Chairs (CRC), including IC³ member Professor Ashley Rose Mehlenbacher of the Faculty of Arts, who holds the CRC in Science, Health, and Technology Communication. Concurrently announced, Mehlenbacher has also won funding from the Canada Foundation for Innovation (CFI) to support her research infrastructure.

IC3 members Luna Khirfan, Robert McLeman and Linda Mortsch are lead authors in the upcoming Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's (IPCC's) Working Group II report on impacts, adaptation and vulnerability. The report is due to be released on February 28, 2022 and assess the impacts and risks of climate change, looking at ecosystems, biodiversity, and human communities at global and regional levels. It will also review vulnerabilities and the capacities and limits of the natural world and human societies to adapt to climate change.

As witnessed in recent weeks, rising seas, swollen atmospheric rivers and post-tropical storms are a threat to community infrastructure, housing and the safety of those living along Canada’s east and west coasts. In response, new guidance from the Intact Centre on Climate Adaptation, University of Waterloo, presents practical solutions to limit the financial and social costs of these evolving risks.

The Interdisciplinary Centre on Climate Change (IC3) and Waterloo International are now accepting applications from third and fourth year UWaterloo students for the new Climate Connect Program.

From October 31 to November 12, the world will gather in Glasgow for the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) 26^th Session of the Conference of the Parties (COP26) to discuss and negotiate more ambitious action to meet the Paris Agreement commitments. On behalf of the University of Waterloo community, the Interdisciplinary Centre on Climate Change (IC3) will lead a virtual delegation to COP26 to engage with governments and non-government observers from around the world. Graduate student delegate applications are now open. 

Meet the winners of the spring 2021 Concept Innovation Stream. Congratulations to the top three teams: CliMate, B.E.A.N.S. and PURwater Initiative.

Congratulations to Waterloo professors and IC3 members, Zahid Butt, Wesley Van Wychen, Chul Min Yeum, Michelle Rutty, and Yimin Wu, on receiving funding from the Canada Foundation for Innovation’s (CFI) John R. Evans Leaders Fund (JELF). 

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCCC) released the Working Group I contribution, Climate Change 2021: The Physical Science Basis, to the Sixth Assessment Report on August 9, 2021. It addresses the most up-to-date physical understanding of the climate system and climate change, bringing together the latest advances in climate science, and combining multiple lines of evidence from paleoclimate, observations, process understanding, and global and regional climate simulations.

The disruption of Indigenous-controlled fire use at the onset of colonization has resulted in high-severity fire activity, according to a new study by a research team at the University of Waterloo.