Climate Change

List of UBC researchers specializing in climate change to help connect journalists to UBC expertise.

"The Centre for Law and the Environment (CLE) is a hub at Allard Law for creating and spreading knowledge, ideas and practices about the role of law in securing a healthy environment and a sustainable society."

"Ecologies of Social Difference (ESD) Research Network is a working group established at University of British Columbia in 2011, and became a new thematic network at the Institute for Gender, Race, Sexuality and Social Justice at UBC. We aim to promote research, engagement, student-faculty-community networking, and interdisciplinary understanding on questions at the interstices of social difference, inequality, and nature/environment. As such, our interests span fields of political ecology, critical nature studies, feminist and social justice research, environmental justice and activism, and affiliated fields."

"The Faculty of Land and Food Systems (LFS) at the University of British Columbia is where science meets society’s urgent needs. We need to protect our water, build resilience into our food supply, and figure out how to do it all with rising temperatures and shifting weather patterns. We need to figure out how better to feed humans, how better to understand the way our food nourishes and powers us, and how better to care for our food resources."

"Though forestry is constantly growing and evolving, UBC’s position as a leader in forestry education remains steadfast. The Faculty of Forestry provides students with an education that is second-to-none. Interdisciplinary approaches, science-based courses, groundbreaking research, cutting-edge technologies, and hands-on experience allow our students to excel in university and beyond."

"UBC Geography is one of the top geography departments in the world. Through our research and teaching, we strive for a critical and ethical approach to the natural environment and society’s relationship with it."

"[A] problem-focused and curiosity-driven interdisciplinary research institute and graduate program, with interest and expertise in a wide range of topics under the realm of environment and sustainability."