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2026 Seed Funds
Launching $100,000 in seed funding to help researchers, students, and innovation partners activate early-stage climate questions into practical, community-centred solutions. Apply by July 31, 2026. Learn More
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Supporting Indigenous Leadership and Climate Action
Partnering with Pacific Institute on Climate Solutions to support research-for-implementation of the BC First Nations Climate Strategy and Action Plan. Learn More
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Advancing Clean Hydrogen and Integrated Energy Systems for Community Resilience
Promoting testing and de-risking world-leading hydrogen research, technology and low carbon renewable energy systems. Learn More
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Advancing Multi-hazard Risk Assessment and Community Resilience
An interdisciplinary team of researchers and community partners are advancing research and tools to address cascading and compounding impacts of heat, drought, wildfire, smoke, flood, and landslide, co-creating community responses that multi-solve. Learn More
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Advancing Low Carbon Resilient Communities and Neighbourhoods
Co-creating strategies that reduce risk and emissions in corporate strategy, asset management, and community planning while also advancing equity, health, biodiversity, and clean development. Learn More
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Advancing Regenerative Bioregions Guided by the Land & Led by the People
Co-developing and implementing cohesive and systemic ecosystem-based approaches, benefiting both people and nature across scales. Learn More
A Community-Centred Approach
Simon Fraser University’s (SFU) top research priority — community-centred climate innovation—aims to unlock the climate action and innovation potential of communities to respond to the impacts of climate change across Canada and beyond. SFU Climate Innovation operationalizes SFU’s critical research priority to catalyze interdiscplinary co-creation research for real-world impact. We leverage SFU’s capacities and reputation as a leading research university to enable research teams to move the dial on climate action and innovation research with and for communities.
What We Do
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Catalyze Interdisciplinary Collaboration
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Co-Create with Community Partners
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Mobilize Knowledge and Scale Climate Innovation
Climate Action that Advances Sustainable Development Goals
SFU Climate Innovation builds on SFU's longstanding dedication to advancing the United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals.
The university ranks among the world’s best when it comes to advancing the United Nation’s sustainable development goals, placing 35th overall in Times Higher Education’s (THE) 2025 Impact Rankings. THE places SFU within the top five institutions in Canada in the categories of Affordable and Clean Energy (#2), Sustainable Cities and Communities (#3), Climate Action (#3), Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions (#4), and Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure (#5).
SFU is also ranked as Canada's #1 innovative university by the World University Rankings for Innovation.
SFU Climate Innovation is building upon and amplifying this reputation to promote relevant climate action research and innovations that support and advance low carbon, resilient and sustainable communities.
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Innovative University In Canada†
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in Canada for Sustainable
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Top 3
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SFU RESEARCHERS
SFU researchers from all disciplines are invited to join the SFU Climate Innovation community.
We create opportunities for exchange with other researchers, and learning with collaborating partners to co-create high-impact research that benefits local communities and moves global networks. Find a researcher.
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COMMUNITY AND CROSS-SECTOR PARTNERS
We invite community partners from across sectors to work with us to co-create the research and evidence needed to move the dial on climate action.
Working together to support communities as they minimize the impacts of climate change requires working together across public and private sectors, all orders of government, and with First Nations.