The CLEAR project has been hosting discussions climate change impacts in the community. Here’s what it’s learned so far.
By: Indyanna Vanderlaan, Communications and Social Media Assistant, UBC Learning Exchange
Mar 01, 2025
Downtown Eastside residents have identified at least three immediate actions required to mitigate climate change in their community, according to a recent report from the CLEAR project.
Over the last year, the Climate Equity Action and Resilience (CLEAR) project has been hosting numerous pop-up cooling and warming stations where they engage in conversations on climate with community members. The report summarizes some of the key insights from the discussions and highlights three short-term actions community members identified as immediate priorities.
Equity deserving communities like Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside disproportionately bear the weight of fossil fuel extraction and climate destruction while being least responsible for it and least resourced to respond to it. People in the Downtown Eastside also have unique perspectives and insights that come from direct experience and can lead to innovative solutions to complex challenges.
CLEAR is a collaboration between the UBC Learning Exchange, UBC Sustainability, and four Downtown Eastside community organizations that works to make climate change research more accessible, identify collaborative climate-related research projects, and add capacity to local organizations and residents advocating for just climate policy and action.
Learn more about CLEAR and get involved here.
Read the The Downtown Eastside Talks Climate with UBC’s CLEAR Projectreport on the UBC Sustainability website.