Welcome to our new executive director
Sarah Burch, Canada Research Chair and Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) author, has been appointed executive director of the Interdisciplinary Centre on Climate Change (IC3).
Sarah Burch, Canada Research Chair and Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) author, has been appointed executive director of the Interdisciplinary Centre on Climate Change (IC3).

The University of Waterloo has launched its first Environmental Sustainability Strategy (PDF) and it was clear that it would take a community to make this happen.
You can help make campus more sustainable. Meet the team on a mission to green our home away from home and find out how you can get involved.
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.
IC3 hosted the International Climate Change Governance webinar on April 22 as the first event in the UWaterloo's Road to COP26 series.
Unpacking the international governance framework of the Conference of the Parties (COP) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). Moderated by Waterloo Professor Ian Rowlands, the discussion explored how COP fits into the global climate change governance system, and featured guest speakers who shared their own COP experiences.
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.
IC3 is pleased to partner with Concept and the Problem lab to support University of Waterloo students through the WE Accelerate Program. The new program will offer one-term work projects, with mentorship support from industry partners
IC3 and the Waterloo Institute for Sustainable Energy (WISE) hosted the Solve Climate by 2030 webinar on April 7th, 2021. The event featured incredible speakers from the University of Waterloo and Waterloo community.
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.