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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.

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.