Research Streams

The partnerships under this research stream focus on supporting Indigenous Peoples’ leadership on climate action.

The Centre for Climate Justice aims to mobilise the research community in and beyond UBC to meet the emergent needs of communities facing climate impacts.

This research stream investigates the labour processes, struggles, and demands emerging through efforts to respond to climate change.

The systemic transformation required to achieve climate justice starts with reparations.

This research theme involves co-developed research to develop justice-oriented approaches to transforming our built environment.

Our research highlights emerging challenges regarding how the costs and benefits of societal transitions will be distributed, and who decides.

We are committed to learning from the struggles for climate justice that are ongoing around the world, and to amplifying the theories and visions emerging from them.

This research stream grapples with the challenges posed by climate crisis to existing institutions, governance, and other structures for ordering life.