The Centre for Sustainability and Social Innovation
Sauder School of Business
UBC
Carbon Management
The climate change imperative has created new national and international opportunities for innovation in carbon management. British Columbia is the leading jurisdiction in North America for carbon and climate policy, which creates great opportunities for further innovation in carbon markets and offsetting.
Current Projects
Southeast False Creek Neighbourhood Energy Utility Case Study
One of the legacies of the Vancouver 2010 Winter Games was the city’s decision to establish an energy efficient, greenhouse gas neutral neighbourhood whose first buildings housed the Olympic Athlete’s Village and later became condominiums. While the
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Carbon Governance Project Workshop Series
Businesses are employing new strategies in response to both carbon legislation and rising consumer awareness of climate change. The companies that anticipate emerging opportunities will prevail in a carbon constrained world.
These strategic opportunities are being identified
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Sustainable Commercial Real Estate Sector: Innovation in Assets, Finance, and Policy
In Canada the commercial real estate sector represents 13% of total Canadian carbon emissions, with “440,000 commercial buildings representing floor space of over 670,000,000 m2 and consuming over 1,036,000,000 GJ of energy annually”(KPMG, 2009). Additionally,...
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Green IT
With funding from CANARIE, a national research network, ISIS engaged in research to explore possible solutions for greening an organization’s Information Technology needs. The study explored how relocation of a company’s data centres can reduce an organization’s...
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