The David Suzuki Institute promotes and accelerates public awareness, engagement and political action in Canada on critical issues of climate, biodiversity, social justice and democracy.
Founded in 2010, the David Suzuki Institute is an evidence-based, non-profit organization that stimulates debate and action in Canada on critical issues of nature and social justice, with emphasis on the climate and biodiversity crises and their solutions.
To support its mission, the Institute works in partnership with other people and organizations to offer events, research and dialogue. It is a companion organization to the David Suzuki Foundation.
“Protecting Earth’s climate is the challenge of our time. There is no more important obligation to the world.”
The Climate Emergency Unit, a project of the David Suzuki Institute, is a five-year initiative to mobilize Canada to resolve the climate crisis.
The CEU's overarching goal is to press for implementation of wartime-scale policies in Canada to confront the climate crisis.
Image credits: Joseph Sydney Hallam (left); Meital Smith (right)
Four Hopeful Lessons from WW2 to Confront Climate Change.
Produced by the Climate Emergency Unit, this hopeful video explains how 4 key lessons for Canada's WW2 mobilization can be used to take action on climate change by Canadian governments and institutions.
Books can change lives.
Greystone Books has worked closely with the David Suzuki Foundation for many years, and now partners with the David Suzuki Institute to publish books on environmental, ethical and sustainability issues. Learn more →
A conversation of national and planetary significance.
The David Suzuki Institute works with the Reconciling Ways of Knowing Society, which brings together Indigenous knowledge and science for the benefit of our shared natural world.
Reconciling Ways of Knowing is about a nation-to-nation relationship between peoples: Indigenous Peoples (and their governments) and Canadians (and their governments).
Evidence-Based Hope & Climate Solutions
A Project of the David Suzuki Institute led by Elin Kelsey, PhD
Social media influencers and youth recognize the suffering of eco-anxiety and the politics of climate doomism. We’re gathering with them to make evidence-based hope and climate solutions more dynamic, impactful and shareable on social media.
Why Hope matters: How to stay hopeful amidst the climate crisis
