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About the Collective

The Climate Solutions Research Collective is a new pan-university initiative designed to build connections across UBC and to encourage new collaborative research on climate change solutions.

The new initiative aims to foster engagement across existing research groups, departments and Faculties, and to support graduate students and faculty in applying their research and expertise to climate change mitigation, adaptation, and/or education.

The Climate Solutions Research Collective launched with funding support from multiple Faculties across our Vancouver and Okanagan campuses and the Vice-President, Research and Innovation portfolio.

2023-2025 Funding Partners

Allard School of Law (UBCV)
Faculty of Applied Science (UBCV) 
Faculty of Arts (UBCV) 
Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (UBCO)
Faculty of Education (UBCV) 
Faculty of Forestry (UBCV) 
Faculty of Land and Food Systems (UBCV)
Faculty of Management (UBCO)
Faculty of Medicine (UBCV)
Faculty of Science (UBCV)  
Sauder School of Business (UBCV) 
Office of the Vice-President, Research & Innovation

Additional funding provided through the Collaborative Research Mobility Awards and the UBC Work Learn Program

Steering Committee

 

  • Simon Donner

    Simon Donner

    Professor

    Institute for Resources, Environment and Sustainability; Department of Geography

    Simon Donner is a Professor at the University of British Columbia and inaugural Director of the Climate Solutions Research Collective. He is an interdisciplinary climate scientist who tackles questions at the intersection of climate science, marine science, and public policy. He holds appointments…

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  • Sally Aitken

    Sally Aitken

    Professor

    Forest and Conservation Sciences

    Our lab seeks to understand the population genetic structure of temperate and boreal trees, and the evolutionary dynamics that have resulted in that structure. We are particularly interested in the extent of local adaptation to climate in tree populations, the phenotypic traits and genes involved…

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  • Werner Antweiler

    Werner Antweiler

    Associate Professor

    Strategy and Business Economics Division

    Werner Antweiler is an expert on international trade and environmental economics. He approaches ecological problems, like climate change, air and water pollution and solid waste management, from a business perspective.  

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  • Michael Brauer

    Michael Brauer

    Professor

    School of Population and Public Health

    Michael Brauer joined the UBC faculty in 1991 in the Department of Medicine. He was an inaugural member of the Occupational Hygiene Program, Director of the School of Environmental Health (2003-2008) and the Occupational and Environmental Health co-lead in SPPH (2011-2014). He holds associate…

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  • Naoko Ellis

    Naoko Ellis

    Professor

    Chemical and Biological Engineering

    Naoko’s expertise lies in the area of multiphase reaction engineering with emphasis on fluidized beds. Some current projects include: CO2 capture; biomass gasification and pyrolysis; chemical looping combustion; pyrolysis product utilization including bio-oil and biochar applications; and biofuels…

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    Derek Gladwin

    Derek Gladwin is an Associate Professor in the Department of Language and Literacy Education (LLED), Faculty of Education, at the University of British Columbia (UBC). In addition to co-founding the Systems Beings Lab and Collaborative Transdisciplinary PhD Cohort for Climate Action…

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  • Robert Godin

    Robert Godin

    Assistant Professor

    Chemistry (UBCO)

    Dr Godin's research focuses on transient absorption spectroscopy/microscopy to determine the charge carrier dynamics of materials for solar energy conversion; photochemistry and photophysics; carbon-based photocatalytic materials; sustainable energy and material production. He joined The…

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  • Sumeet Gulati

    Sumeet Gulati

    Professor

    Faculty of Land and Food Systems

    I am a Professor in Environmental and Resource Economics at UBC.  My research spans two main themes: 1) the economics of wildlife conservation, and 2) the economics of urban transportation. I am spending most of my time these days estimating the cost of conflict with wildlife to farmers…

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  • Kathryn Harrison

    Kathryn Harrison

    Professor

    Political Science

    Kathryn Harrison is Professor of Political Science. She has a Bachelor’s degree in Chemical Engineering from the University of Western Ontario, Master’s degrees in Chemical Engineering and Political Science from MIT, and a PhD in Political Science from UBC. Dr. Harrison studies environmental,…

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  • John Janmaat

    John Janmaat

    Professor

    Department of Economics, Philosophy and Political Science

    John Janmaat is a Professor of economics and Head of the Economics, Philosophy and Political Science Department at the University of British Columbia Okanagan campus.  His research program can be described as the three ‘Ms,’: Measuring, Modeling and Mobilizing, of environmental service…

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  • Milind Kandlikar

    Milind Kandlikar

    Professor

    Institute for Resources, Environment and Sustainability; School of Public Policy and Global Affairs

    Milind Kandlikar is Professor at the School of Public Policy and Global Affairs (SPPGA). He is the former Director of the Institute for Resources, Environment and Sustainability (IRES). His work focuses on the intersection of technology innovation, human development and the global environment. His…

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  • Carol Liao

    Carol Liao

    Associate Professor

    Peter A. Allard School of Law

    Dr. Carol Liao is Associate Professor at the UBC Allard School of Law and the UBC Sauder Distinguished Fellow of the Peter P. Dhillon Centre for Business Ethics at the UBC Sauder School of Business. Her research focuses on corporate law and sustainability, climate governance,…

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Staff

  • Sidonie Wittman

    Sidonie Wittman has served as the Program Assistant for the Climate Solutions Research Collective since May 2024. They are pursuing an undergraduate degree in Geography, specializing in Environment and Sustainability, with a minor in Urban Studies, and are completing the Certificate in Climate…

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First Nations land acknowledegement

We acknowledge that UBC’s campuses are situated within the traditional territories of the Musqueam, Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh, and in the traditional, ancestral, unceded territory of the Syilx Okanagan Nation and their peoples.

Climate Solutions Research Collective

UBC receives support for managing its research enterprise from the federal Research Support Fund.

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