Prof Steven Young from WIEG is visiting the Resource Lab, University of Augsburg, Germany. Long-time collaborators, the Resource Lab is a research unit at the Institute for Materials Resource Management (MRM) with a focus on industrial ecology.
We will be watching a webinar about a topic in industrial ecology, and will have a brief discussion afterwards. More details will follow soon!
(Bring your own lunch)
WIEG students Gayathri Valappil, Basak Topcu and Sadaf Mollaei present their research on food systems sustainability.
Bring your own lunch.
CRAFT mitigates risks in artisanal and small-scale mining.
CRAFT helps artisanal and small-scale miners to demonstrate their efforts in progressively changing their practices.
CRAFT helps buyers to report due diligence and engage with a sector that can contribute to the development of around 40 million people in the world.
And because CRAFT is for all… it has to be built by all!
GLOBE Virtual Webinar: Business Not as Usual: The Circular Economy as a Post-COVID Recovery and Resiliency Strategy
Presented by the Interdisciplinary Centre on Climate Change (IC3) and Faculty of Applied Health Sciences (AHS)
Join IC3 & AHS for a webinar event, featuring a keynote by World Wildlife Fund Canada President and CEO, Megan Leslie, and panel discussion with the University of Waterloo's Zahid Butt and Goretty Dias. Our speakers will share their expertise as they discuss climate change and its impact on the environment, food systems and our health.
The pandemic has revealed key weaknesses and strengths of our plastics system. As we turn towards making a green recovery, the time to take meaningful action is now. How can—and should—the transition to a sustainable circular plastics economy be used as a strategy for economic recovery and what is required to achieve this?
Join us for a leadership-level dialogue between diverse peers that will uncover the necessary investments, policies, business practices and processes required to build economic recovery and resilience, while creating the plastics system of the future.
Join us for a solutions-oriented interactive webinar focused on plastics packaging pathways to achieve a circular economy in Canada. Thought leaders will first share the latest in upstream innovation processes and requirements. Participants will then be invited to explore together innovation processes for circular plastics, contributing to the discussion via Slido.
Health Affairs: The Health Effects of Climate Change
Leaders from business, government and civil society set out the bold action needed to create a circular economy.