Takahiro Endo, the new Jarislowsky Japan Chair at UVic’s Centre for Asia-Pacific Initiatives and Gustavson School of Business, delves into challenges and opportunities of mobilizing green finance.
Clean energy projects such as this reflect UVic’s commitment to United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (UN SDGs) to promote prosperity while protecting the planet. In particular, the UVic wind buoy project aligns with UN SDG Goal 7—to ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy.
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UVic is reinforcing its resolve to fight climate change and build a sustainable future by signing on to the Race to Zero (RtZ), a massive global alliance dedicated to reducing carbon emissions to net zero by 2050, if not earlier.
Impact investing has huge potential to help individuals, institutions and start-ups take action against climate change. Basma Majerbi explains how it can help take us to net zero.
Three sustainable research projects deliver societal benefits thanks to funding from BC Knowledge Development Fund.
Douglas magazine features the 2021 10 to Watch winners, of which six are UVic-linked projects.
UVic has reached the detailed design stage of the engineering expansion project that aims to showcase UVic’s expertise in environmental sustainability with world-leading green buildings, a mass timber structure, and green and solar roofs.
UVic's working capital fund is free of fossil-fuel investments with the move of $80 million to a short-term bond fund that focuses on reducing the carbon intensity of investments within the pool.
UVic researcher and Canada Research Chair Makhsud Saidaminov is harnessing the power of artificial intelligence and materials sciences for sustainability.
The Royal Society of Canada (RSC) announces four UVic researchers as new fellows and member, and also recognizes a professor emeritus for contributions in the literature of social sciences.
UVic civil engineering professor Ralph Evins is using machine learning to design energy-efficient buildings that don’t yet exist.
A statement from the President: Climate change is the global threat of our time, and universities have a major contribution to make to the solutions. One of our strategic priorities is to contribute to a sustainable future.
UVic has adopted a responsible investment policy that targets the worst producers of greenhouse gases across all sectors, increases investments in clean technology and encourages low-carbon practices for a sustainable future.
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BC needs huge power supply boost to electrify transport industry
