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🎙️ 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/
⚡🌍Join us next week! This talk offers an insider’s take on how Schneider Electric embeds decarbonization, circular design, and innovation into every layer of its global strategy.

🔗https://ires.ubc.ca/october-23-2025-ires-professional-development-seminar-with-shaochen-yuan/
A new publication on water systems from IRES alumni & Dr. @leilaharris.bsky.social encourages more specificity in the use of the terms 'centralization' and 'decentralization'.

Their suggestion, shown below, clarifies different water system configurations and their impacts.

doi.org/10.1002/wat2...
💐 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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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
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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⚖️ 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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🎙️ 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/
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/...
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...
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.
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...
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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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-...
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...
💐 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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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
@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!
📅 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...