Centre for Climate Justice

How do we ensure housing is a right for all? A new op-ed co-authored by CCJ Housing Research Project post-doc Samantha Thompson talks about the disconnect between declaring housing a human right while eliminating policies that make housing possible.

Read Here: thetyee.ca/Opinion/2025...

#bchousing

YouTube video by Centre for Climate Justice AI and the Politics of Extraction | Centre for Climate Justice

🚨The video recording of the AI and the Politics of Extraction panel is now live! Watch this fascinating 1.5 hour discussion with @naomiaklein.bsky.social, @profwhw.bsky.social, @mysdick.bsky.social, and @profhvdv.bsky.social as they explore the risks of unfettered AI implementation.

🚨Join acclaimed author and journalist @karenhao.bsky.social in conversation with @naomiaklein.bsky.social, co-director of the CCJ and award-winning author and UBC professor, to explore the intersection of AI and its sociopolitical implications.
Get Tickets: shorturl.at/3TNul

Nov 28, 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM, Liu Institute: Mojan Farshchi will examine how the right to a healthy environment, rooted in international human rights and environmental law, can help fill protection gaps for climate and environmental migrants.

🔗 Register: migration.ubc.ca/events/event...

Vancouver’s climate leadership is a promise we can’t break Eliminating the city’s climate and sustainability department is a betrayal of our collective future, write Carol Liao and Naomi Klein

We are not living in an era of optional climate policy. We are living in an era of planetary limits where the choices we make in city halls will determine the world our children inherit, @carolmliao.bsky.social and @naomiaklein.bsky.social write. www.nationalobserver.com/2025/11/13/o...

The City of Vancouver’s new budget proposed major cuts to its Climate & Sustainability department. The CCJ co-directors, @carolmliao.bsky.social and @naomiaklein.bsky.social, wrote an op-ed in Canada's National Observer expressing their criticism of the budget proposal.
Read more: shorturl.at/9uSLl

Save you spot for our free hybrid panel on the rapid spread of AI and its growing climate justice implications. Join professors @naomiaklein.bsky.social, @mysdick.bsky.social,
@profwhw.bsky.social, @profhvdv.bsky.social and
@carolmliao.bsky.social for this conversation.
REGISTER: shorturl.at/AUt2S

Some powerful words from our co-director @naomiaklein.bsky.social!

The rapid spread of AI raises growing climate justice concerns. Join professors @naomiaklein.bsky.social, @mysdick.bsky.social, @profwhw.bsky.social, and @profhvdv.bsky.social for a hybrid panel discussion, moderated by @carolmliao.bsky.social.
Register Now: climatejustice.ubc.ca/events/event...

Climate Action Week 2025 at UBC Library Join us for Climate Action Week from November 1 to 7. UBC Library will be hosting events, activities, and exhibits alongside other libraries from across Canada.

🌍Join UBC Library for Climate Action Week from November 1 to 7.🌎
Libraries and other GLAM organizations across Canada are coming together to focus on climate action: about.library.ubc.ca/2025/10/23/c...

⚠️Mining harms are sold as “necessary for growth.” But do the promised benefits ever show up? This report takes a closer look — with findings on what needs to change and key policy recommendations: cfcj.cms.arts.ubc.ca?p=18170

🎬 Join us tomorrow!
Older than Israel — Work-in-Progress Film Screening and Discussion. Doors at 6:10pm, event begins at 6:30pm. Free. Light food and refreshments will be served.
➡️RSVP Here: sppga.ubc.ca/events/event...

We’re excited to launch our latest report, which identifies key issues in how BC assesses and monitors mines’ economic benefits and offers recommendations to strengthen transparency, accountability, and rigour.
Learn more: cfcj.cms.arts.ubc.ca?p=18170

In this Visiting Scholar talk, Dr. Renata Faizova will address the tensions between Kazakhstan's dependence on fossil fuels and efforts to address climate change. Join us October 27th in Buchanan Tower 997 to learn more about Dr. Faizova's powerful research!

Join us on Oct 24 at @moaubc.bsky.social, as journalists, experts and storytellers explore the ways Indigenous narratives work to engage with what climate change means on Indigenous terms.

Read more here: https://f.mtr.cool/teoofwhzrs

@mediaindigena.bsky.social

Join the Climate Justice Student Collective 🌱
At the CCJ, we are finding out what students at all levels interested in climate justice would find valuable that we can support.
Get involved by filling out our survey: ubc.ca1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

The next Climate Conversation on October 28th at 2pm will look at how fossil fuel supply in Canada is shaping up under evolving mandates, including how the new Major Projects Office relates to fossil fuel production. Read more and register here: climatesolutions.ubc.ca/news-and-eve...

Join us for the lecture “Occupying Selves” or “How to be an Indian via Unciteable Pain” by Dr Audra Simpson.
🗓️ Tuesday, October 14, 2025
🕦 7:00 – 9:00pm
📍 Franklin Lew Forum, Allard Hall
✅ Registration required: climatejustice.ubc.ca/events/event...

Something extraordinary just happened But of course there's a but. Or two.

America is in crisis.

So it's a small relief that the rest of the world is actually getting remarkable stuff done with energy. We just passed a huge milestone globally!

Now back to work on America.
billmckibben.substack.com/p/something-...

This is a mutli-slide post. Righting History's logo in the top left corner. 'Literary Contest 2025' with a image of hand holding a pen. 'Over $2,500 in prizes!'

Slide #2: 'Our literary contest's theme this year is: (Im)migration Stories at the Nexus of Climate Justice in Canada' 'Within the context of Bill C-2 and Bill C-5, we're creating space for migrants roles, rights and contributions in so-called Canada, and are seeking literary contributions that centre migrants' perspectives on climate and social justice and trace connections between places, memories, borders and ecologies.' Image of two protesters from Draw the Line Vancouver holding signs that say 'Regularize Everyone status for all' and 'Migrant Rights are Workers Rights' 'photo credit: Mike Graeme'

Slide #3: the title reads 'Submission Guidelines' in three bullet points below that it reads 'One original, unpublished piece in English per person (and please do not submit it elsewhere until we finalize our collection by or before Dec 31, 2025)' 'Open to anyone in Canada' 'We especially encourage (im)migratns, Indigenous, racialized, queer, trans & LGBTQIA+ folks, youth (18-35), women & gender-diverse people with lived experiences to participate given our theme and focus' 'Enter by November 1st!'

✒️📚Calling all writers, poets & creatives, we have a paid opportunity for you!

We’re looking for original fiction, nonfiction &/or poetry pieces to be featured on Righting History - an anti-colonial education platform created by the national climate justice organization Shake Up The Establishment.

Register for First Nations Mining Litigation in BC, a public panel exploring two landmark legal cases shaping the future of mining in British Columbia.

October 15, 2025 | 5 — 8PM | UBC Robson Square

Register here: cfcj.cms.arts.ubc.ca?p=17995

Jane Goodall, legendary primatologist, has died at age 91 Jane Goodall, primatologist who transformed our understanding of the lives of apes, has died, according to an announcement from the Jane Goodall Institute.

JUST IN: Jane Goodall, primatologist who transformed our understanding of the lives of apes, has died, according to an announcement from the Jane Goodall Institute.

YouTube video by Global Sumud Flotilla 24/7 LIVESTREAM OF GLOBAL SUMUD FLOTILLA

Close to 65k watching the livefeed from the Global Sumud Flotilla off the coast of Gaza.

Israel seems to be intercepting right now.

All eyes needed.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=uEN2...

How to listen to CBC Music's ʔəm̓i ce:p xʷiwəl Come Toward the Fire special | CBC Music The show will be broadcast on CBC Music and CBC Radio One on National Day for Truth and Reconciliation.

In honour of the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation, tune in to ʔəm̓i ce:p xʷiwəl (Come Toward the Fire) on CBC Radio One tomorrow, September 30 at 2:05 p.m. local time.
The special was recorded at the UBC Chan Centre and was hosted by Jarrett Martineau.
Learn more: www.cbc.ca/music/how-to...

Read the recap or watch the full recording of Health Report from Gaza—a conversation with @naomiaklein.bsky.social and Dr. Deirdre Nunan about her most recent work in one of the barely standing hospitals left in Gaza.
Explore more: climatejustice.ubc.ca/news/recap-h...

📣Tomorrow 📣 between 12:15–1 PM PT, @naomiaklein.bsky.social will discuss her book Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World.
This online event is organized by the UBC Alumni Book Club and moderated by @carolmliao.bsky.social

Register: ubc.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Mona Seif on X: "An exceptionally kind day 💛 Alaa is free https://t.co/nmg4oROSTi" / X An exceptionally kind day 💛 Alaa is free https://t.co/nmg4oROSTi

Confirmed: Alaa Abd el-Fattah is finally free, at home, and with the family members who fought for years with their hearts, heads and entire bodies for this to happen. x.com/Monasosh/sta... #AlaaFreed

If you, like me, are the parent of a neuro-atypical child dreading this autism press conference, please remember: These are the people hurting our kids. Not us. They are the ones stigmatizing and pathologizing them. They are the ones peddling untested science. And we should be very, very angry.

Tomorrow, September 20th at 2PM, communities will mobilize across the country for people, for peace, for the planet. Join us!
drawtheline.world/canada?r=CA&...

Draw the Line: Tell the Carney Government to Pick a Side | The Tyee For people, for peace, for the planet. An invitation to join the Sept. 20 mass day of action.

We are supporting Draw The Line mobilization. Join us:
📅September 20, at 2PM
📍VPL Central, 350 W Georgia St, Vancouver
thetyee.ca/Opinion/2025...