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Emily De Sousa, a fourth-year Environmental Governance student was the recipient of three scholarship awards at last week’s College of Social and Applied Human Sciences award ceremony.

De Sousa is the first person in her family to attend University. During her high-school years, she didn’t think that attending University would be a possibility due to family financial reasons, but her parents’ determination to see her succeed and their considerable sacrifices made it happen. 

The list of critical environmental threats that humanity is facing continues to grow. Climate change, deforestation, loss of biodiversity, pollution, and oceanic dead zones can be linked to many of the recent natural disasters the earth has seen.

Governments are often tasked with leading the charge in tackling environmental issues. But, according to Mary Granskou, the new Kinross Chair for Environmental Governance in the College of Social and Applied Human Sciences at the University of Guelph, governments shouldn’t be looked to as the sole architects of environmental solutions.