Explore list of our partners, available programs, or meaningful campaigns run on the UBC campuses.
Sustainability Hub
Sustainability Hub builds on UBC’s record of sustainability leadership and works to advance the University’s goals while inspiring action on the planet’s most urgent challenges through UBC’s academic and operational initiatives.
Explore UBC Sustainability campaigns, initiatives and activities:
- Review education opportunities to teach and study sustainability through courses
- Explore a diverse range of sustainability-related programs
- Find out how you can take part in supporting sustainability campaigns
- Review UBC’s latest sustainability performance through sustainability dashboards
- Discover the Okanagan’s Sustainability Hub and its commitment to sustainability and environmental excellence
Climate Justice UBC
Climate Justice UBC is a student-led organization that works to tackle climate change and its root causes. The group advocates for government action on climate policy, political engagement, institutional climate leadership, environmental justice, and Indigenous sovereignty.
Climate Emergency Response
UBC Climate Emergency Response team, in collaboration with the Sustainability Hub, mobilizes the community around the urgent need for climate justice and acting in response to UBC’s Climate Emergency Declaration and Task Force Report.
Climate Solutions Research Collective
The Climate Solutions Research Collective is a pan-university initiative at UBC that fosters connections among climate researchers, groups, and initiatives. It encourages new collaborative research on climate change solutions.
Biodiversity Research Centre
Scientists at UBC’s Biodiversity Research Centre investigate the ecology, evolution, and conservation of biological diversity through research at all levels, from genes to ecosystems through to interactions with society.
Campus + Community Planning
Campus and Community Planning
is a team of experts in sustainability, planning, design, engagement, and community building dedicated to building a vibrant and sustainable community for everyone who studies, works, lives and creates at UBC.
Centre for Climate and Business Solutions
The Centre for Climate and Business Solutions at UBC Sauder School of Business is a dynamic hub for climate-focused business education and problem-driven research, grounded in robust research and driven by innovation and partnerships.
Centre for Indigenous Fisheries
The Centre for Indigenous Fisheries
, located in UBC’s Institute for Oceans and Fisheries, is committed to research, teaching, and service that places community needs and interests at the heart of everything the Centre does.
Centre of Indigenous Land Stewardship
The Centre of Indigenous Land Stewardship, at UBC Forestry & Environmental Stewardship, aspires to be a global centre of excellence, bringing Indigenous Peoples’ knowledge and land ethics together with natural resource science and management.
Centre for Indigenous Land-Based Education, Research and Wellness at xwc̓ic̓əsəm
With an emphasis on teaching, learning, and research, the Centre for Indigenous Land-Based Education, Research and Wellness at xwc̓ic̓əsəm aims to serve educational and research needs related to Indigenous knowledge.
Centre for Law and the Environment
The Centre for Law and the Environment is an internationally recognized hub for creating and sharing knowledge, ideas and practices about the role of law in securing a healthy environment and a sustainable society.
Centre for Sustainable Food Systems
The Centre for Sustainable Food Systems is a living laboratory committed to finding solutions to local and global challenges facing food systems sustainability.
Centre for Sport and Sustainability
The Centre is dedicated to improving understandings of the relationships between sport and human and ecological wellbeing, social and economic development, and cultural identity.
Centre for Wildfire Coexistence
The Centre for Wildfire Coexistence responds to an escalating need to adapt forestry and land management practices with the aim of restoring healthy and resilient forests, as communities adapt to a changing climate.
Clean Energy Research Centre
The Clean Energy Research Centre is a multidisciplinary research hub dedicated to undertaking world-class clean-energy research, training, development and demonstrations.
Reuse-it!
Reuse-it!
is a virtual online warehouse that allows current UBC-V employees to find and exchange items between departments. This can include furniture, office supplies, lab equipment, and more!
UBC Facilities
UBC Facilities oversees the lifecycle stewardship of buildings and public spaces on the Vancouver campus and supports the university’s broader sustainability commitments through its Sustainability and Furniture Reuse programs.
Zero Waste Market
The UBC Zero Waste Market
in Vancouver resells used items from UBC faculties and departments through both online and in-person marketplaces, helping to divert reusable materials from disposal.