Climate Change

August 26, 2020

CalEPA’s Jared Blumenfeld on Grounding COVID Recovery in Climate Action

CalEPA Secretary Jared Blumenfeld reiterates Governor Newsom's commitment to ensuring safe and affordable rural drinking water supplies and opportunities to propel the state’s post-COVID economic recovery with clean jobs.

July 13, 2020

Investors Growing Interest in ESG Accountability & Return to Work Challenges: ERM’s Mike Wallace

ERM Partner Mike Wallace to discuss how investors are responding to the business interruptions caused by the COVID pandemic and paying increasing attention to the value of future planning, risk management, and the human and environmental benefits that result.

July 7, 2020

Solving the Climate Crisis: The Congressional Action Plan for a Clean Energy Economy

Rep. Mike Levin here introduces excerpts from the congressional Climate Crisis Action Plan for TPR readers.

June 15, 2020

Bloomberg's Liam Denning: Fighting Climate Change Means Fighting Racial Injustice

Bloomberg columnist Liam Denning describes the ways in which the fight for climate change and racial justice are closely intertwined, revealing how communities of color are disproportionately harmed by the effects of climate change, particularly air quality

April 24, 2020

CARB Chair Mary Nichols on Pandemic’s Confirmation of the Value of Clear Air

Chair Nichols points to the need for global collaboration and science-based decision-making as keys to navigating both the immediate COVID-19 public health crisis as well as the more slow-moving existential threat posed by climate change and air pollution.

April 1, 2020

Too Soon to Say! Coronavirus Impacts on Planning, Investment & Regulation of Urban Mobility

Gabe Klein and Abby Abel opine on the impacts of social distancing —from mass layoffs and stay at home orders to empty freeways, vacant train stations, and cancelled flights— and whether current circumstances are challenging the assumptions and principles behind their firm's change-making work in smart urban mobility.

February 16, 2020

C40 Chair & LA Mayor Eric Garcetti Kicks Off the Climate Decade at VX2020

Mayor Garcetti delivers remarks on how cities, like Los Angeles, are demonstrating the transformative power of the green economy to drive robust and sustainable growth while embracing the existential imperative of this decade, the Climate Decade.

October 3, 2019

City of Santa Monica: Modeling Effective Local Climate Action in Alignment with C40 Goals

City Manager Rick Cole outlines Santa Monica's actions and policies to realize the city's ambitious C40 goals.

August 29, 2019

Implementing LA’s Green New Deal Without Economic & Worker Displacement 

WUF presents a conversation on the need to prevent the economic and existential displacement of communities and workers as the city rapidly enacts policies and takes actions necessary to decarbonize LA.

June 13, 2019

CPUC's Transition to a Resilience Agency: Commissioner Cliff Rechtschaffen

Commissioner Cliff Rechtschaffen details how the California Public Utilities Commission is moving to play an active role in climate adaptation, resilience, and public safety.

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