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One Okanagan Bioregion
Developing a biocultural salmon credit and market to support Guardians programs, restoration initiatives and regenerative agricultural approaches. Salmon Returns, Sacha Investments, the BioFi Project and others. Learn More
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SFU's Clean Hydrogen Hub
Promoting testing and de-risking world-leading hydrogen research and technology Learn More
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Nature-based solutions as a low carbon resilience strategy
The Natural Solutions Initiative co-develops and implements cohesive and systemic ecosystem-based approaches across site, neighbourhood, community, and watershed scales that benefit both people and nature. Learn More
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Sustainable Community-Resilient Alternative Mobility (SCRAM)
Leading community-centered mobility scenarios that reduce vehicle kms and emissions while building health, equity, and resilience in urban transportation. Learn More
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Climate Readiness for the Social Service Sector
Mapping climate risk, adaptive capacity and low carbon resilience strategies for the social sector in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside (DTES). Learn More
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One Okanagan Bioregion
Developing a biocultural salmon credit and market to support Guardians programs, restoration initiatives and regenerative agricultural approaches. Salmon Returns, Sacha Investments, the BioFi Project and others. Learn More
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Advancing Multi-hazard Risk Assessment and Community Resilience
An interdisciplinary team of researchers and community partners are advancing research and tools to address cascading and compounding impacts of heat, drought, wildfire, smoke, flood, and landslide, co-creating community responses that multi-solve. Learn More
These innovative research stories illustrate the potential for climate research-for-impact. Each tells of a story of transdisciplinary collaboration and community-centred partnership.
Featured Projects
Climate action and innovation research at SFU spans across all faculties. SFU Climate Innovation is helping accelerate research-for-impact by enabling co-creation with community partners, catalyzing interdisciplinary collaboration and mobilizng and scaling knowledge across local and global networks. Together, with community-centred partners, we are co-creating projects and advancing solutions across five intersecting climate innovation pathways: Indigenous leadership and climate action; clean hydrogen and integrated energy for communities; multi-hazard risk assessment and community resilience; low carbon resilient communities and neighbourhoods; regenerative bioregions guided by the land and led by the people.