Past Events

Hear from speakers who have won major fossil fuel divestment victories at the University of California and Concordia University, and those working towards climate justice at our University.

Shoshanna Saxe, Assistant Professor, Department of Civil and Mineral Engineering, University of Toronto

Adria Vasil, Environmental Journalist and Bestselling Author

Without artists and humanists, science is frequently lost in translation, while artistic work that disregards science risks irrelevancy.

Sheila Colla, Assistant Professor (Environmental Studies), Department of Biology, York University

“We are standing on the edge of a frontier in terms of our ability to see, understand and share information about the oceans” –Wendy Schmidt

Lori Stahlbrand, Food Policy Specialist with the City of Toronto’s Food Strategy Team, responsible for the Toronto Food Policy Council

The University of Toronto Mississauga will host its 1st international sustainability conference: Sustainability: Transdisciplinary Theory, Practice and Action (STTPA). We welcome contributions from all disciplines and stakeholders and also invite you to participate in this conference as a delegate. The STTPA Call for Abstracts provides information on submitting papers, posters, proposals for themed sessions, panel discussions, workshops and more! For more information on the conference and how you can get involved and/or submit your abstracts and proposals, please visit:https://sttpaconference.com/.

Aliénor Rougeot, Coordinator of Fridays for Future Toronto

Join us for a two-day event with scholars, activists, journalists and policy practitioners to discuss a Green New Deal for Canada. The panels will examine a variety of topics about climate change and the economy:
1) What are the current federal and provincial climate change policies?
2) What can Canada learn from climate policy in other countries?
3) What can labor, business, and activists do to help speed up decarbonization?
4) What key policies are needed?