Student Profiles
Lawson Scholars participate in United Nations Youth Forum in New York City
Last week, young leaders, innovators and advocates from around the world gathered at the United Nations Headquarters in New York for the 2026 Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) Youth Forum, to advance innovative solutions to accelerate...
Lawson Climate Institute supports Earth Month Celebration Event for Toronto Teachers
On March 31, University of Toronto’s Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (OISE) welcomed close to 50 Toronto District School Board teachers who are leading Climate Education to kick off Earth Month, which runs though April. Lawson Climate Institute was pleased...
Munk School Team Wins First Ontario Energy Board Energython
Pictured from left to right: Luis Sanchez Diaz, Juan Fernandez, Michelle Cobblah, Jordan Simons. Image courtesy of Ontario Energy Board. Lawson Climate Institute is pleased to announce that a team from University of Toronto’s Munk School of Global Affairs and Public...
Introducing the 2025–26 Leading Change Fellows
Climate Positive Energy and Leading Change are excited to announce the second cohort of the Leading Change Fellowship. This incredible group of emerging sustainability leaders from across Canada brings curiosity, commitment, and a wide range of lived experiences to...
High-Powered Progress: New Battery Technology at UTSC’s Clean Energy Lab
The Clean Energy Lab, led by Professor Alex Voznyy (Department of Environmental and Physical Sciences), unites UTSC researchers in exploring next-generation materials for energy harvesting and storage.
Driving Change: How CPE Researcher Harshit Gujral is Examining Public Health Impacts of Green Vehicle Mandates
In 2023, Harshit Gujral was one of 13 University of Toronto graduate students to receive a scholarship of $15,000 from Climate Positive Energy to further his research. Titled “Examining the public health impact of ZEV mandates in the US,” Harshit’s research project,...Meet the CPE Climate Leaders attending Leading Change Summit
Climate Positive Energy is partnering with Leading Change to develop multidisciplinary programs for CPE students. As part of this collaboration, CPE is pleased to offer a handful of exceptional sustainability students the opportunity to attend two of...
Guilt-free Combustion: How CPE Researchers are Innovating Decarbonized Combustor Technology
The system is based on a new concept combustor that is fuelled by natural gas – but captures carbon from the natural gas prior to combustion in a self-sustained manner. Simultaneously, this also enables generation of hydrogen and its immediate consumption to generate decarbonized thermal energy.
From Lab to Light: How CPE Researcher Nina Farac is Harnessing More Solar Energy with Green Chemistry
On International Women’s Day, we are pleased to delve into the research journey of Nina-Francesca Farac, whose green chemistry research is helping to expand the field of solar cell technology.