Steve Easterbook, director of the University of Toronto’s School of the Environment, said rationing “in some form or another” is inevitable because today’s solutions – such as the carbon tax and emissions trading schemes — don’t go far enough to adequately curb emissions. “But given the political battles over the federal carbon tax, it’s hard […]
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Professor Jessica Green remarks on Greta Thunberg, misogyny, and why twitter wars are a distraction on CityNews
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Professor Steve Easterbrook on the warning from 11,000 scientists of a climate emergency
An international consortium of more than 11,000 scientists is backing a study with a dire warning: Earth is facing a climate emergency. The new study of how human activities have impacted the planet over the past four decades declares that harmful greenhouse gas emissions are rapidly rising, that governments are making insufficient progress in tackling the […]
We’re hiring! Assistant Professor Statistics and Environmental Science
We are looking for an assistant professor (tenure stream) in any area of data science related to climate and global environmental change. This is a joint position between the Department of Statistical Sciences and the School of the Environment. Find out more and apply here.
Professor John Robinson and a team of U of T undergraduates win international campus research award
In an effort to make students aware of the wealth of similar sustainability-related opportunities on campus, the team of undergraduates and Robinson created three inventories of sustainability courses, projects, groups, co-curricular and extra-curricular programs. They describe their work and results in a paper published in the open-access journal Sustainability, which recently received an international campus research award from the […]
Professor Douglas Macdonald of the School of the Environment comments on the financial challenges Toronto may face in implementing climate-change policies.
Douglas Macdonald speaks to cost of Toronto becoming a net neutral emission city by the year 2050. “This is going to cost a lot of money, even just for the city’s own emissions, its own buildings, its own vehicle fleet, we’re going to have to spend quite a bit of money,” says Macdonald. Watch the […]
