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UBC IRES @ires.ubc.ca · Aug 7

🎙️ This snippet offers a glimpse into Verena's comprehensive Seminar in our Series, which is full of strategies, tactics and tools related to the science of policy making and changing.

And there's even more to explore— join our Seminar Series in September! ires.ubc.ca/news-and-events/

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UBC IRES @ires.ubc.ca · 15h

💐 3 IRES students are named as 2025 UBC Public Scholars...congrats Yunfei Li, Jessica Mukiri, and Molly Zhang!

🗨️ "Building trust with communities takes time, yet these efforts are often undervalued in the traditional metrics of academia. PSI creates space for this kind of work."
Jessica Mukiri

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UBC News @news.ubc.ca · 6d

A new paper co-authored by @ires.ubc.ca adjunct prof Dr. Robin Gregory argues that B.C. should be spending more than the cost of battling wildfires in 2025, expected to be close to $500m, to break the current cycle of destructive wildfires.

via @theglobeandmail.com

B.C. must spend more now on wildfire mitigation to avoid higher costs in future, paper says

This year was one of the province’s worst seasons on record, with the cost of battling wildfires expected to near $500-million

www.theglobeandmail.com

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UBC IRES @ires.ubc.ca · 6d

How can cities adapt to rising seas and uncertain futures? IRES’s Mauricio Carvallo uses Surrey’s climate planning as a case study to show how flexible, cost-aware strategies can help protect farms, homes, and infrastructure from coastal flooding.
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UBC IRES @ires.ubc.ca · 13d

⚖️ How is the EU’s anti-deforestation law landing in Southeast Asia?

This talk explores the backlash against the EUDR in rubber-producing countries and what it reveals about global power imbalances in sustainability policy.
@sppga.ubc.ca

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UBC IRES @ires.ubc.ca · 14d

🎙️ This small snippet offers a glimpse into Nicole's comprehensive Seminar in our Series, addressing the intangible, or harder-to-measure impacts, that really matter to people after resource extraction. youtu.be/LEiI7ow35us

Join our next seminar! ires.ubc.ca/news-and-events/

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UBC Oceans @ubcoceans.bsky.social · 16d

Canada predicted to miss 2030 climate targets. @simondonner.bsky.social says the 2024 levels of carbon dioxide are 8.5% below 2005 levels, way below the goal of 40-45%. globalnews.ca/video/114383... via @globalbc.bsky.social @ubcgeography.bsky.social @ires.ubc.ca

Canada predicted to miss 2030 climate targets | Watch News Videos Online

Watch Canada predicted to miss 2030 climate targets Video Online, on GlobalNews.ca

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UBC IRES @ires.ubc.ca · 15d

How can communities help map air pollution? 🏘️🌫️

This study found that community knowledge highlighted air pollution sources that were less well-represented in official data sets.
Helping capture what official data often misses. agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...

UBC IRES @ires.ubc.ca · 19d

Help improve the reach of your research and your skills📝📢!

@thatniv.bsky.social, IRES's Communications Manager, will offer tips for writing lay abstracts, creating a graphical abstract, and refining your online presence.

ires.ubc.ca/september-25...

UBC IRES @ires.ubc.ca · 26d

Exploring aqua nullius and its role in colonization, this talk addresses the systemic exclusion of Indigenous water rights and science. It highlights the impact on Indigenous women's water rights and aims to reform settler-state legal systems to ensure their sovereignty and water rights.

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UBC Oceans @ubcoceans.bsky.social · 28d

Dr. @simondonner.bsky.social comments on Canadian government's climate policy. @ubcgeography.bsky.social @ires.ubc.ca

www.hilltimes.com/story/2025/0...

Strengthening climate policy to build long-term prosperity

As we move forward with major new ‘nation–building’ projects and infrastructure investments, the choices we make are about today versus tomorrow, not the environment versus the economy.

www.hilltimes.com

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UBC IRES @ires.ubc.ca · 28d

UBC Micro-certificate in Climate Action Planning!

For policy makers, planners, and other professionals:
⏰ Part-time
💻 100% online
💵 Eligible for the StrongerBC future skills grant

extendedlearning.ubc.ca/programs-cre...

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UBC IRES @ires.ubc.ca · Sep 7

Exploring how climate change impacts the lending capacity of microfinance institutions (MFIs) to smallholder farmers (SHFs), this talk will analyze global trends in physical climate risk—particularly tropical storms and floods—and their effects on 4,500 MFIs under various climate scenarios.

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UBC Forestry🌲🇨🇦 @forestry.ubc.ca · Sep 3

Join #UBCForestry and @landfood.ubc.ca on September 30 at 1956 Main Mall as we unite for an Intergenerational March to Commemorate Orange Shirt Day.

Learn more: bit.ly/osd-2025
#UBC #OrangeShirtDay

2025 Intergenerational March to Commemorate Orange Shirt Day |

Join Land and Food Systems and Forestry for an Intergenerational March to Commemorate Orange Shirt Day on Sept 30.

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UBC IRES @ires.ubc.ca · Sep 3

Some background info...

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UBC IRES @ires.ubc.ca · Aug 7

July 2025 marked a significant milestone for climate justice as the human right to a healthy environment was recognized by top judicial authorities.

@drdavidboyd.bsky.social, IRES professor & former UN Special Rapporteur, discussed its implications:
🔗 verfassungsblog.de/icj-climate-...

UBC IRES @ires.ubc.ca · Sep 3

Join @drdavidboyd.bsky.social's talk next week on this summer's powerful legal updates on the right to a healthy environment!

📍September 11, 2025 | CIRS BC Hydro Theatre
2:00 – 2:30 pm Networking (in-person)
2:30 – 3:30 pm Presentation (in-person and online)
climatesolutions.ubc.ca/news-and-eve...

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UBC IRES @ires.ubc.ca · Sep 3

💐 Congrats to Manvi Bhalla and Amanda Giang, who are two recipients of the 2025 Peter Wall Legacy Awards!

Bhalla is being honored for her IRES PhD research into environmental racism, while Giang's award is in association with her @ubcmech.bsky.social research.
walllegacyawards.ubc.ca/awardees-2025/

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UBC Oceans @ubcoceans.bsky.social · Aug 29

Bottom trawling is a highly controversial fishing method, but a lesser-known problem with #bottomtrawling: its potential to unleash climate-warming gases by disturbing carbon stored in seafloor sediments. www.scientificamerican.com/article/bott... via @sciam.bsky.social

A Controversial Fishing Method May Dredge Up a Climate Time Bomb

Bottom trawling is a fishing practice that is notoriously destructive to seafloor ecosystems. Now there’s growing evidence that it might unleash planet-warming carbon

www.scientificamerican.com

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UBC News @news.ubc.ca · Aug 27

Dr. Jiaying Zhao (@ubcpsych.bsky.social @ires.ubc.ca ) commented on ways Metro Vancouver could help the public understand why green waste shouldn't go in landfill via @cbcradiocanada.bsky.social

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A garbage truck is parked in front of a Stop sign. Behind the sign is a large pile of garbage. Credit Martin Diotte/CBC News

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UBC IRES @ires.ubc.ca · Aug 27

@b-sci.bsky.social @blackinrobotics.bsky.social @blackinengineering.bsky.social #BlackWomenPhDs
Please see and share the thread above for an Assistant Professor of Teaching opportunity at UBC!

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UBC IRES @ires.ubc.ca · Aug 27

The Faculty of Science at UBC is seeking a candidate who self-identifies as Black for a tenure-stream Assistant Professor of Teaching, with expertise in data science, statistics, computational science, computer science, or environmental science.

Please share widely!
science.ubc.ca/blackscholars

Black Faculty Position – Faculty of Science (FoS) at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver – Assistant Professor of Teaching

The OpportunityThe Faculty of Science at the University of British Columbia (UBC) in Vancouver seeks a candidate who self-identifies as Black for a tenure-stream Assistant Professor of Teaching with a...

science.ubc.ca

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UBC IRES @ires.ubc.ca · Aug 26

📅 Mark your calendar: Sept 11 @ 12:30 PM!
Join us for the first IRES seminar of the term, featuring IRES student Victor Cardenas.

🌍 Topic: Climate change, microfinance institutions & smallholder farmers

🔗 Full Term 1 speaker lineup: ires.ubc.ca/news-and-eve...

UBC IRES @ires.ubc.ca · Aug 14

How do we align human actions with conservation? In this new paper, IRES scholars review the use of human action theories in conservation and make recommendations. Read more: doi.org/10.1111/cobi...

@science.nature.org @gundinstitute.bsky.social

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UBC IRES @ires.ubc.ca · Aug 14

🌏 IRES researchers and colleagues present an updated dataset on the global distribution of cropland *and* pasture circa 2015, alongside a transparent and reproducible approach to update their data product. Read more: doi.org/10.5194/essd...

@juliefortin.bsky.social

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UBC News @news.ubc.ca · Aug 12

OP ED: Canadians struggling with climate-related disasters and skyrocketing insurance premiums may rightly ask: How will recent legal developments affect Canada? The short answer: profoundly.

Dr. David Boyd (@ires.ubc.ca, @sppga.ubc.ca) discusses in @vancouversun.bsky.social

Opinion: International courts are sending a clear message on the climate crisis. Canada must pay attention

Canadians facing with climate-related disasters and skyrocketing insurance premiums may ask: How will legal developments affect Canada?

vancouversun.com

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Susanna Klassen @susannaelsie.bsky.social · Aug 6

Our op-ed is out today in @thetyee.ca ! Protecting workers from the risks of extreme heat isn’t a threat to affordable food. It’s key to ensuring food security with hotter summers to come. BC should update its regulations in line with US states taking the lead, like WA, OR & CO.

The Tyee @thetyee.ca · Aug 6

Farmworkers work long hours in the blistering heat.

Extreme heat can also make crops ripen more quickly, leading employers to pressure workers to harvest more quickly and take fewer breaks, all at the expense of their well-being.

Anelyse Weiler and Susanna Klassen write. 🍇 #bclab

The Economic Case for Better Farmworker Heat Protections in BC | The Tyee

It’s the right thing to do. And it could stabilize your grocery bill.

thetyee.ca

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