The Worldwide Teach-in on Climate Justice aims to recruit 1,000 schools and universities around the globe to engage 500,000 students in learning about climate change and climate justice. The Teach-in is led by the Waterloo Institute for Sustainable Energy and supported by several student partners and the Interdisciplinary Centre on Climate Change (IC3). The event has been designed to have a series of panels in which climate concerned faculty from multiple disciplines each talk about climate…

Helping Ontario’s Heavy Industry Transport and Store CO2 by 2030

Canada has committed to a massive GHG emissions reduction by 2030 (i.e., CO2 emissions abatement). Ontario heavy industry (steel, cement, chemicals, oil refining, automotive…) will be transitioning to low-CO2 technology over the next 20-30 years, but to meet emissions goals identified by the Federal Government for 2030, action must be taken now. As C-taxes increase to $170/tonne by 2030, and as the USA considers carbon border…

WISE is the recipient of the 2020 Co-operative and Experiential Education (CEE) Employer Impact Award for Impact in Sustainability. The organization has also been named an honorable mention in the Impact in International Excellence Award category. At WISE, Waterloo students either work with the organization or with its international partners in field placement positions as part of the Energy Access Internship Program.

Aysha Cotterill (Systems Design Engineering co-op student at UW)

Aysha worked…