Tag: international
In course on global energy, students welcome special guest: Canada’s finance minister
The day after Prime Minister Justin Trudeau unveiled the details of a national climate framework – taxing carbon and offsetting costs to consumers with rebates – a guest was invited to discuss the policy with an engineering class at the University of Toronto.
U of T joins coalition of leading universities driving climate action
The University of Toronto is joining 12 other leading research universities in North America in a coalition to reduce greenhouse gas emissions on their own campuses and in their communities.
U of T-led study finds global crop diversity on the decline
A new University of Toronto study suggests we’re growing more of the same kinds of crops around the world, presenting a major challenge to agricultural sustainability.
“Nobody monitors air quality here”: U of T researcher returns home to study Trinidad and Tobago emissions
A new study by a graduate student in the University of Toronto’s Faculty of Applied Science & Engineering measured significant concentrations of traffic-related air pollution near roadways in the small island nation of Trinidad and Tobago, reaching levels comparable to highways in major urban centres like Toronto and Detroit.
U of T’s CERT team advances to finals of international competition Carbon XPRIZE
A team led by the University of Toronto’s Faculty of Applied Science & Engineering that is working to capture greenhouse gas and recycle it into useful chemicals has advanced to the finals of the international NRG COSIA Carbon XPRIZE.
The competition presents this challenge: capture carbon emissions from power plants and efficiently convert them into valuable chemical products.