ISCN 2015: WG 3, Victoria Smith

UBC

SUSTAINABILITY SCHOLARSVictoria Smith

Director, Communications and Community Engagement

UBC Sustainability Initiative

ISCN 2015

HONG KONG

UBC VANCOUVER

• 49,896 students

• 4,659 Faculty

• 9,459 Staff

• 500 buildings

• 402 hectares

UBC SUSTAINABILITY MILESTONES

19961996 20022002 20082008 2014/152014/15

Opens C.K

Choi Building,

setting new

green building

benchmarks

worldwide

Integrates

sustainability as

a core pillar in

UBC’s highest

level strategic

plan

Meets Kyoto Protocol

GHG reduction

targets for academic

buildings

5 years early

Canada`s first

university to

adopt a

sustainable

development

policy

Approval of

20 Year

Sustainability

Strategy

Opens Centre

for Interactive

Research on

Sustainability

(CIRS)

Sets bold targets to

reduce GHG

emissions

33% by 2015

67% by 2020

100% by 2050

WHAT DOES

NEXT GENERATION

SUSTAINABILITY LOOK LIKE?

20-YEAR SUSTAINABILITY STRATEGY

Addresses how

sustainability will be

achieved across three

key components:

Teaching, Learning and Research

Teaching, Learning and Research

Operations and InfrastructureOperations and Infrastructure

UBC CommunityUBC Community

UBC CAMPUS AS A LIVING LAB

CITY OF VANCOUVER

� the City is the biggest beneficiary of the program. We get fantastic

projects from the scholars, and are always amazed at how informative

and instrumental the research and projects are in helping us create and

get going with something much, much larger�.

Sean Pander, Assistant Director, Sustainability Group, City of Vancouver

GREENEST CITY SCHOLARS

Photo credits: Martin Dee (UBC), BC Hydro

UBC SUSTAINABILITY SCHOLARS

• Practical sustainability experience for UBC graduate students

• Support community partners to achieve sustainability goals

• Actively integrate academic and operational sustainability work

UBC SUSTAINABILITY SCHOLARS

� we were very pleased with the scholars that worked with us – the

quality of deliverables and the professionalism of the scholars exceeded

our expectations�.

2014 mentor

CHALLENGES

Program Expansion

Impact at UBC

Resources

Photo credits: Martin Dee (UBC), Jennifer Wahl (City of Vancouver)