Projects

These ground-breaking research stories illustrate the potential for 51社区黑料Climate Innovation. Each tells of a story of interdisciplinary collaboration and community-centred partnership.

Featured Research-for-Impact Projects

Climate action and innovation research at 51社区黑料spans across all faculties. 51社区黑料Climate Innovation is helping accelerate research-for-impact by enabling co-creation with community partners, catalyzing interdisciplinary collaboration and mobilizng and scaling knowledge across local and global networks. We are responding to emerging areas of research within our community to researchers and partners to advance climate innovation pathways including Indigenous leadership and climate action; integrated energy for sustainable communities; multi-hazard risk assessment and community resilience; low carbon resilient neighbourhoods and communities; and more.

Advancing Canada's Hydrogen Strategy

Project Leads
Steven Holdcroft, Professor, Canada Research Chair (Tier 1), Electrochemical Materials

Co-Creation Partners
TBA

Outcomes
Supporting co-development technologies and products to decarbonize the Canadian economy.

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Nature-based Solutions as Climate Action

Project Leads
Alison Shaw, Executive Director, Community-centred Climate Innovation

Co-Creation Partners
Cities of Port Moody, Prince Rupert and Maple Ridge

Outcomes
Co-developing and implementing nature-based solutions that help build biodiversity, equity and community low carbon resilience.

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Co-Developing Place-Based Climate Resilient Solutions

Project Leads
Nancy Olewiler

Co-Creation Partners
First Nations Housing and Infrastructure Council, BC Housing, and Technical Safety B.C.

Outcomes
Empowering rural, remote and Indigenous communities to co-develop low carbon and resilient solutions for housing and safer technical equipment.

Photo by Kyle Thacker

Sustainable Community-Resilient Alternative Mobility (SCRAM)

Project Leads:
Vahid Hosseini, Associate Profressor, Sustainable Energy Engineering
Dr. Chris Buse, Associate Professor, Health Sciences

Funding Agency
: Anthropogenic emission sources

Co-Creation Partners
City of Burnaby
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Mobi Bike Share
Evo Car Share

SCRAM鈥檚 Project Collaborators
Collaborative Research on Energy, Air Pollution, Transportation and Environment (CREATE)

Outcomes
Enhancing Canadian capabilities in knowledge and tools, while assisting community decision-making processes and alternative transportation options in pursuit of net-zero goals.

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DTES Climate Readiness Roadmap for the Social Service Sector

Project Leads
Tara Mahoney, Research and Engagement Manager, 51社区黑料Community-Engaged Research Initiative (CERi)
Alison Shaw, Executive Director, 51社区黑料Climate Innovation and ACT - Action on Climate team

Co-Creation Partners
VanCity Community Foundation

Outcomes
Mapping climate impacts to residents and organizations of Vancouver鈥檚 Downtown Eastside (DTES) community, a new co-created climate readiness Roadmap will identify key opportunities, barriers, and trade-offs to building low carbon resilience planning tools and strategies for social sector organizations in BC and across Canada.