Climate Change and Energy Transformation
In the near future Canadian agriculture will experience longer growing seasons fostering its economic value, yet extreme events and water will lead to more uncertainty. UCalgary community members are coming together to make breakthroughs in climate research. The challenges brought forth through climate change are being addressed with both societal and technological responses.
Dr. Guillaume Lhermie
Director, The Simpson Centre
REDEVELOP — Training future leaders in low-carbon energy
UCalgary’s transdisciplinary REDEVELOP program welcomed students from across Canada to address issues facing the low-carbon energy industry. Students were given the opportunity to explore solutions while learning how to connect western science approaches to Indigenous ways of knowing.
Research
Researcher aims to optimize Canada’s climate policy network
A UCalgary researcher is the principal investigator of a multistage project aiming to optimize Canada’s climate policy network. The project team is working together to create a depository to assist regulators, policymakers, academics and other stakeholders learn more about effective strategies for the evolution of carbon pricing regulation.
Provincial funding earmarked for UCalgary clean-energy projects
The Government of Alberta invested $13 million split across 22 projects in Alberta to advance clean energy solutions. Two projects at the Schulich School of Engineering will receive funding, which will look at improving battery performance for renewable energy storage and harnessing innovative digital technology in the energy sector.
Professor publishes chapter in Climate Change Law Handbook
As part of the Research Handbook on Climate Change Law and Loss & Damage, a UCalgary professor Sharon Mascher has published "Towards a civil liability regime for climate-related loss and damage" which offers an insightful review of how legal systems can and should adjust to fairly and effectively support loss and damage claims in climate change law.
UCalgary and CIBC announce Energy Transition Centre
Located in downtown Calgary, the centre is a collaboration between the university, Innovate Calgary, Avatar Innovations, and the energy industry. It will take a novel approach to energy transition, providing programming related to career development for academics and professionals, as well as technology development in areas of emerging technologies crucial for the energy transition.
Teaching, learning and student experience
Science of Climate Change course
UCalgary geoscience professor would like to see more people talking about heat, smoke and everything else that’s been a hallmark of recent summers, because local concern is key to driving politicians to action on climate change at a global level. This interest in better-informed climate conversations led to the design of a geoscience course that’s open to all university students, called Science of Climate Change.
Extractive Resource Governance Program
Environmental, social and governance criteria increasingly reflect the standards companies and organizations operate by. These metrics have become critically important to investors, consumers and stakeholders across the value chain. UCalgary's School of Public Policy, founded the Extractive Resource and Governance Program to provide knowledge on Canadian best practices from strategic advising to training, research to global projects.
Mobilizing Alberta: $1.6M Climate Action Grant
The new Mobilizing Alberta (MA) Climate Action Grant aims to help strengthen capacity for advancing climate action across Southern Alberta by providing experiential learning opportunities for students, faculty and community members. MA is a multi-year initiative funded by Environment and Climate Change Canada. Coming up, there will be a variety of engaging events and accessible, solutions-focused climate-education resources and tools for Southern Albertans.
Campus and community impact
World’s largest showcase of performance designers at UCalgary
World Stage Design (WSD) is the first and only designer-based exhibition to showcase and celebrate performance design. WSD welcomes several hundred artists, designers, technicians and architects from around the globe who practice, study, and create performing arts events. WSD provides an opportunity to demonstrate connections to Indigenous ways of knowing, sustainability, and future technologies.
Calgary Climate Symposium
UCalgary partners with the City of Calgary for the Calgary Climate Symposium to continue the conversation about climate change, share how it affects Calgarians, and what we can do together. Some topics explored during the symposium include lowering our carbon future to leverage economic opportunities, and strengthening communities to be resilient to climate change impacts and hazards.
UCalgary 1 of 3 universities to lead Clean Energy Hub
The federal government announced an investment of nearly $5 million to three universities, including UCalgary’s School of Public Policy, to establish the Energy Modelling Hub to help realize a decarbonized energy system for Canada. The hub will create a national network of energy modelers, policymakers, and other experts to help bridge the gap between data and policy, ensuring modelling activities inform the response to the most pressing energy policy questions of our time.