Institute for Resources, Environment & Sustainability

The Institute for Resources, Environment & Sustainability is a problem-focused and curiosity-driven interdisciplinary research institute and graduate program, with interest and expertise in a wide range of topics under the realm of environment and sustainability. Our mission is to foster sustainable futures through integrated research and learning about the linkages among human and natural systems, and to support decision making from local to global scales. More often than not, we achieve this through collaborations across students and faculty in a manner that recognizes our collective skills, intellectual histories and methodological approaches, and yet encourages our interdependencies as we consider real world problems.

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Resources, Environment and Sustainability

Master of Arts

Resources, Environment and Sustainability

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Resources, Environment and Sustainability

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News

This is a climate election

Dr. Simon Donner is featured in the analysis of the main party platforms on climate change seems to suggest that emissions would continue a gradual decline under a Mark Carney government, but not under one run by Pierre Poilievre.

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Farm-diversification research wins high kudos

An international group of researchers, including IRES alum and current faculty, are named U.S. national champions of the Frontiers Planet Prize for research that finds environmental and social benefits of agricultural diversification. Adapted from Clint Talbott’s CU Boulder Press Release...

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Q&A: How maritime experts are charting a course to cut emissions by 40% per shipment by 2030

While international shipping accounts for over 3% of global greenhouse gas emissions, there’s optimistic news emerging from the experts working to decarbonize this critical sector. According to a new study by IRES’s Imranul Laskar, Dr. Hadi Dowlatabadi and Dr. Amanda Giang, many experts in the...

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Solid Carbon receiving $24M to advance ocean-based carbon dioxide removal

IRES welcomed news last week that Dr. Terre Satterfield is co-leading a $24-million initiative over six years through the Government of Canada’s New Frontiers in Research Fund (NFRF) to advance the Solid Carbon research project—one of the most promising ocean-based carbon dioxide removal (CDR)...

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$22 million awarded to Indigenous-led and multi-institutional research project for Indigenous and community-based approaches to chemical risk management

IRES has partnered with 20 researchers and collaborators from Canada and Aotearoa (New Zealand) on a large international research initiative that puts Indigenous experts as leaders in designing how chemical risk is evaluated and managed. This collaborative project seeks to re-envision chemical risk...

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The age of extinction – Why fear of billion-dollar lawsuits stops countries phasing out fossil fuels

A UN report by Dr. David Boyd has been featured in the Guardian to explain how companies can sue governments for closing oilfields and mines – and this risk of huge damages is already stopping countries from passing green laws!

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