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The School of Environment, Enterprise and Development (SEED) is pleased to recognise four new graduates of the Masters of Environmental Studies in Sustainability Management. In the months of spring 2020, our research students were working remotely due to worldwide constraints associated with the COVID-19 lockdown. The following theses were completed, orally defended and are now publicly available on the University’s thesis depository.

Professors and research students in the School of Environment, Enterprise and Development (SEED) have been busy developing their research since the onset of the global COVID-19 lockdown. Here are several new peer-reviewed articles have been published over the last months.

WISE Public Lecture: Decarbonizing financial portfolios: risks, opportunities, and impact on the energy industry and climate change

Every Friday between 12:00 noon and 1:00 p.m., SEED PhD students and faculty are welcome to join an informal meeting on Microsoft Teams.

The School of Environment, Enterprise and Development (SEED) is pleased to recognise five new graduates of the Masters of Environmental Studies in Sustainability Management.

Zachary Folger-Laronde, Sep Pashang, Leah Feor and Amr ElAlfy conducted research on the question, whether there are differences in the financial performance of responsible investments (RI) vs conventional investments during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Congratulations to Majid Mirza for winning first prize win at the Concept Graduate Student Fund. The funding received will help Majid and the ESG Tree team to create a minimum viable product to be implemented by a partner who they have signed a letter of intent with.

We know that cities and urban spaces have seen more cases of COVID-19 overall, but what unique challenges do rural communities face in the post COVID-19 world? To help understand rural recovery, Professor 

A team of University of Waterloo students and faculty have been recognized at the 2020 Administrative Science Association of Canada (ASAC) conference for their paper on impact investing.

​Congratulations to Professor Marie-Claire Cordonier Segger of the University of Waterloo’s Faculty of Environment School of Environment, Enterprise and Development (SEED), Laureate of the prestigious new Weeramantry International Justice Award