In the spotlight🔎 Ontario Climate RiskWorkshop The 2024 Beatrice and Arthur Minden Symposium on the Environment […]
The Himalayan Climate Data Field Lab brought 112 people from 19 different countries together in Kathmandu, Nepal in May and June for a month-long participant-led ‘unconference’ that explored new ways of creating, sharing, and using climate change data. As climate change impacts and risks intensify across the Himalayan region, processes of data production and the design of information management systems shape the ways climate-related problems are understood and prioritized, as well as whose stories get told. This Field Lab, organized by Professor Robert Soden and postdoctoral fellow Austin Lord from the Toronto Climate Observatory, created a space where participants could collaboratively reevaluate the landscape of climate change data in the Himalayan region and build new tools to help create more just climate futures.
Congratulations to Aarjav Chauhan on winning an Honourable Mention in the Best Paper award category at […]
The Toronto Climate Observatory faculty, students, and collaborators will be presenting 5 papers and a workshop at CSCW 2024
A great first day at the 2024 Beatrice and Arthur Minden Symposium on the Environment: Ontario […]
Eighteen Toronto banks, pensions and asset managers responsible for financing emissions that are almost 2x Canada’s total emissions, nearly 100x City of Toronto’s emissions.
Toronto’s top financial institutions financed over $1.43 trillion CAD ($1.1 trillion USD) in fossil fuel companies in 2022, contributing to at least 1.44 billion tonnes of CO2 emissions- nearly twice the total emissions of Canada, and nearly 100 times the total emissions of the City of Toronto, according to a new report from the Toronto Climate Observatory, a research hub based at the University of Toronto (U of T).
The Toronto Climate Observatory (TCO) is hiring a part-time (50%) Research Coordinator to support the growing activities of this campus-wide research initiative. With professors and graduate students from multiple departments and faculties at the University of Toronto, we have developed an ambitious research agenda, online platform, and outreach program to monitor and communicate the accelerating impacts of climate change locally and around the world. Drawing on approaches ranging from climate modeling to human centered design, economics, oral history, citizen science, and art/science collaboration, the TCO develops place-based approaches to understanding the effects of climate change in ways that are contextualized and meaningful to policy-makers and the public. Key aspects of the initiative include our commitments to sound science, interdisciplinary collaboration, climate justice, and public engagement.
The first-ever Toronto Climate Summer School (TCSS) has been featured on the University of Toronto's Arts & Science website.
Led by Professor Robert Soden and Dr. Rohini Patel, the TCSS brought together students from a range of fields to explore how climate change is affecting the city of Toronto. From tracking methane emissions in the Junction to studying how extreme weather impacts housing and migration, students dug into real issues happening right here in our city.
Flood risk data in the GTA is often inaccessible or outdated, leaving most residents, urban planners, […]
What happens when grassroots climate justice activists effectively leverage data? Lilly Flawns’ research, honoured with an […]