The Green Review

What is the IPCC

UNB Sustainability

Posted: February 17, 2022 12:00:00 AM AST

Category: Questions


The IPCC stands for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. It was established by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) and the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) in 1988. The purpose of the IPCC is to provide all member countries with a scientific framework to help them develop nation specific climate policies. The framework is typically in the form of an assessment...

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What's old is new again

Marc Bragdon - Head of the Research Commons

Posted: February 10, 2022 12:00:00 AM AST

Category: Programs and Updates, Opinion


Fix it Mondays at the Fabrication Lab   As new initiatives go, the Fabrication Lab on the third floor of the Harriet Irving Library, part of the Research Commons, is a throwback and a step ahead. The 3D imaging and printing technologies you’ll find here are heralds of a revolution in manufacturing and material learning whose implications are only beginning to reveal...

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Can we really make packaging out of squished apples?

PomPak

Posted: February 3, 2022 12:00:00 AM AST

Category: Programs and Updates


The story of PomPak - UNB Sustainability's winner for the Apex Business Plan Competition 2022 In the summer of 2021, four chemical engineering students came together to start brainstorming what we wanted to do for our senior design project. We knew it would be a huge part of the next eight months of our lives, so we wanted to pick a topic that inspired us, a topic we were excited about. We...

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