IRES, Campus + Community Planning, and the Sustainability Hub are offering the Micro-certificate Climate Action Planning: Foundations, Finance and Implementation this coming fall.

In its second iteration, the program is designed to equip professionals with the tools, confidence, and foundational skills to begin climate action planning within their organizations and communities. Please help us promote the program by sharing it with your networks.

Next start date is October 1, 2025

Information session on August 19

This program is eligible for StrongerBC future skills grant (limited spots available, don’t miss out!)

Enroll now!

Another cohort of amazing IRES scholars are out in the world! Congratulations to all and we hope you come back to visit.

In its second iteration, the program is designed to equip professionals with the tools, confidence, and foundational skills to begin climate action planning within their organizations and communities. Please help us promote the program by sharing it with your networks.

Two global Frontiers Planet Prize winners call for a future of diversified farming

Dr. Dana James and Dr. Susanna Klassen, two UBC IRES alumni, are among an international group of researchers named global champions of the Frontiers Planet Prize. Their winning contribution is to a landmark paper published in Science that reveals how agricultural diversification can deliver significant social and environmental benefits.

The prize also honors the contributions of current and past UBC researchers Dr. Hannah Wittman, Dr. Zia Mehrabi, Dr. Claire Kremen, and co-first author Dr. Laura vang Rasmussen.

For James and Klassen, who were PhD students at IRES while contributing to the study, what matters most is what comes next. Will the world be willing to do the hard work of making these findings real for farmers?

Read more!

Recent IRES Publications

Carter McNelly, Élizabeth Melis, Hali Moreland, Noémie Roy, Nadia Dalili, Emily Wells, Caleigh Delle Palme, Don Carruthers Den Hoed. Ecological grief: Young professionals transformed by and transforming conservation work, Marine Policy, Volume 180, 2025. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpol.2024.106362.

David E Reed,..., Mark Johnson,..., Donatella Zona, et al. Network of networks: Time series clustering of AmeriFlux sites. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, Volume 372, 2025. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.agrformet.2025.110686.

Gardner-Frolick, R., Jain, S., Martinussen, N., Chambliss, S., Jackson, D., Zimmerman, N., & Giang, A. (2025). Incorporating community knowledge into analysis of air quality monitoring network data. GeoHealth, 9, e2025GH001378. https://doi.org/10.1029/2025GH001378

Klassen, S., Weiler, A. M., & Hastie, B. (2025). Extreme heat hits different under climate change: A review of legal protections for agricultural workers in Canada and the US. Current Environmental Health Reports, 12(25), 1-15. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40572-025-00490-x

Scott Doney, Katie Lebling, Oliver S Ashford, Christopher R Pearce, Wil Burns, Sara Nawaz, Terre Satterfield, Helen S Findlay, Natalya D Gallo, Jean-Pierre Gattuso. Principles for responsible and effective marine carbon dioxide removal development and governance. World Resources Institute. 2025. https://hal.science/hal-05121256v1

Lalande, Annie, Stephanie Alexis, Penelope M. A. Brasher, Neha Gadhari, Jiaying Zhao, and Andrea J. MacNeill. 2025. "Determining Patient Satisfaction, Nutrition, and Environmental Impacts of Inpatient Food at a Tertiary Care Hospital in Canada: A Prospective Cohort Study" Dietetics 4, no. 3: 29. https://doi.org/10.3390/dietetics4030029

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