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A plastics circular economy in Canada would recirculate materials in an environmentally- and financially-sustainable closed loop. It reduces waste and emissions while capturing value.

Techopia Live visited the University of Ottawa’s STEM building this week to hear how student startup Poly is addressing plastic problems across Canada.

Carolyn Fischer, one of the world’s leading environmental economists, is coming back to her birth country from the United States and Europe to hold the Canada 150 Research Chair at the University of Ottawa.

Dans la foulée de la publication récente du rapport spécial du IPCC « Global Warming of 1.5℃`» les médias ont publiés une pléthore d'articles portant des titres tels que : «Nous avons 12 ans pour limiter la catastrophe du changement climatique, met en garde les Nations unies» (The Guardian, le 8 octobre 2018). Ce panel discutera de nombreuses questions sociales, politiques et économiques que le rapport soulève pour les décideurs, les chercheurs en politique climatique, et les citoyens du monde concernés.

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One of our professors and also holder of the Canada Research Chair in Environment, Society and Policy, Jackie Dawson explained that the shipping industry is a massive, growing market, and people in Churchill and beyond need to help shape it. She’s requested funding to survey how people in Churchill — where she once lived — are coping.

At the lecture on February 7^th, 2019 at the University of Ottawa, visiting scholar Dr. Kai Chan examined the strengths and weaknesses of policy tools (incentives, certification, regulations, and place-based approaches), and examined how bringing relational values to the fore of these policy tools could empower grass-root action and achieve sustainability goals.

Affiliate professor Ryan Katz-Rosene presents the case for embracing complexity when it comes to making dietary choices.

The number of monarch butterflies wintering in Mexico is at its largest in at least 10 years, raising hope for the colourful but endangered insect.

The University of Ottawa’s Jeremy Kerr, an insect scientist who specializes in butterflies and moths, is in Mexico now. He says it is “wonderful news.”