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Central Sustainability and Climate Office
The central SFU Sustainability and Climate Office plays a key role in ensuring that sustainability and climate action are integrated into the university’s core business and across all its activities.
The team is the coordinating body for SFU’s sustainability and climate action work. We advance SFU’s leadership in sustainability and climate action by ensuring the implementation of SFU’s Sustainability Policy (GP38), 20-Year Sustainability Vision and Goals (.pdf), and five-year strategic plans through a coordinated and cohesive approach to institution-wide sustainability initiatives.
About the team
The central SFU Sustainability and Climate Office facilitates the development and implementation of the university’s five-year strategic sustainability and climate plans and identifies opportunities to meet, exceed and lead on internal and external sustainability and climate targets. This includes monitoring and reporting on the university’s progress against key performance metrics and global sustainability and climate indicators.
The team works collaboratively with the vice-presidents and their teams to develop, scale and promote sustainability and climate initiatives.
OUR Roles
- Planning and administration. Act as SFU's central hub for sustainability and climate administration, planning, measurement, reporting, coordination and communication.
- Capacity building. Provide education, training, advising and resources to SFU community members (cascading down from the vice-presidents) on embedding sustainability and climate action
our Functions
The central SFU Sustainability and Climate Office develops and guides system-wide sustainability and climate plans and provides strategic support to amplify student, faculty and staff sustainability and climate action initiatives across the institution.
Our core services include:
Planning - Facilitaiting the development and implementation of the university’s five-year strategic sustainability and climate plans and identifying opportunities to meet, exceed and lead on internal and external sustainability and climate targets.
Administration & Secretariat - Acting as SFU's central hub for sustainability and climate administration. The central SFU Sustainability and Climate Office provides central coordination of sustainability and climate action planning, measurement, evaluation, and reporting, record keeping, contacts, data, policy, procedures and communications.
Organizational Development and Change Management - Working on transformational change design to ensure sustainability and climate action principles and practices are embedded into the SFU’s policies, processes, structures, budgeting systems, mindsets and practices.
Capacity building, Education and Training - Providing education, training, connection support, advisory support and resources to all SFU community members to assist in embedding sustainability and climate action into work, teaching and learning.
Synergies, Convening and Connecting - Maintaining a ‘birds-eye’ view of SFU’s work and impact in sustainability and climate. Identifying connections and opportunities for synergies and cross-silo/transdisciplinary collaborations. Connecting people internally to each other and external communities with our SFU community.
Reputation and SFU’s Sustainability and Climate Narrative - Enhancing SFU's profile and reputation on climate and sustainability. Amplifying the work of faculty, students, staff and community partners in the areas of sustainability and climate action.
Our team
We are a group of experienced sustainability and climate action professionals coming from a diversity of backgrounds and educational disciplines. We have built—and continue to build—our team around a set of core principles and skillsets that we believe are critical for success in systems-change work such as ours.
Our Vision
All SFU community members can contribute to a regenerative and resilient society within which they belong and thrive.
Candace Ratelle (Le Roy) she/her
Executive Director
candace_leroy@sfu.ca
Lindsay Bunce (she/her)
Managing director
lindsay_bunce@sfu.ca
Kayla Blok (she/her)
Director (Part Time)
kayla_blok@sfu.ca
Melissa Fiorucci
(she/her)
Manager, administration
mfioruca@sfu.ca