You’re Invited! UCLA Law Events at the Global Climate Action Summit

Affiliate events will cover UC Carbon Neutrality Initiative, sustainability in Los Angeles and transportation revolutions

UCLA Law is coming to the Bay Area next week for the Global Climate Action Summit, a major gathering of climate leaders from states, cities, universities, the private sector and civil society to advance action on global warming.

Jurisdictions and organizations involved are moving forward with new commitments. Last week, the California legislature sent one of the world’s most aggressive clean energy policies to the desk of Governor Jerry Brown, a co-host of the summit. And yesterday, the University of California upped the ambition of its Carbon Neutrality Initiative, committing to 100 percent clean electricity by 2025. Expect more announcements as the summit approaches.

We’d like to extend an invitation to Legal Planet readers to three official affiliate events co-hosted by UCLA Law’s Emmett Institute and featuring our faculty. Space is limited and RSVPs are required for each of these events. The events will address sustainability challenges for the universities (and other large organizations), megacities and the transportation sector:

UC Berkeley Chancellor Carol Christ will provide opening remarks and the event will include speakers from Kaiser Permanente, Microsoft, UC Berkeley, UC Global Climate Leadership Council, UC Office of the President and UCLA Law.

California State Senator Ben Allen has been invited to deliver featured remarks and panel speakers include Mark Gold, associate vice chancellor for environment and sustainability, UCLA; Laurel Hunt, executive director, Los Angeles Regional Collaborative for Climate Action and Sustainability; Barbara Norman, foundation chair of urban and regional planning in the Faculty of Business, Government and Law, University of Canberra; and Nancy Sutley, chief sustainability officer, Los Angeles Department of Water and Power.

  • At Uber HQ on September 11 from 2:00 p.m – 7:00 p.m., Harnessing the 3 Revolutions for Climate Goals will feature Ethan Elkind and address policy tools needed to harness revolutions in shared, electric and automated transportation to meet climate goals.

Read Ethan’s post earlier today about the event, which will include experts from government (Metropolitan Transportation Commission/Association of Bay Area Governments Panelists), industry (Chariot, EVgo, Lyft, Lime, Uber, Zoox and Via) and universities (Georgetown Climate Center, Institute of Transportation Studies at UC Davis, Berkeley Law and UCLA Law).

In addition to the events we’re hosting, our new faculty member William Boyd is organizing a meeting of the Governor’s Climate and Forests Task Force and Ann Carlson will speak on September 13 at Higher Education Leadership on Carbon Pricing, a public event exploring best practices for carbon pricing at colleges and universities.

UCLA Law faculty, fellows and students will be at the summit itself.

We look forward to seeing many Legal Planet readers in the Bay Area next week. Let us know if there are any important events we should know about!

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One Reply to “You’re Invited! UCLA Law Events at the Global Climate Action Summit”

  1. Pogo’s proclamation “We have met the enemy and he is us” was headlined at Earth Day 1971 to demonstrate support for environmental protection, it is now 2018 and we have experienced some of the greatest global warming tipping point disasters in California, U.S. and world history this year.

    I wish you the best at making the right things happen at last, with the greatest sense of urgency because our current legacy to guarantee an acceptable quality of life for future generations is a total failure.

    Tragically, Pogo is still right, I hope and pray you shall prove his proclamation wrong at last.

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