Shivani Shukla is a Research Fellow in the Climate Program at CLEE. Her work focuses on the development of climate and environmental policies, particularly on methane and natural resources. Prior to joining CLEE, Shivani aided interdisciplinary climate policy research across academia, private and public sectors in the U.S.A., Ireland and India. Shivani graduated from the MPP program at the University of Chicago and with a Masters in Applied Economics from University College Dublin. As a graduate student, she worked as a Research Assistant and Communications Intern at the Energy Policy Institute (EPIC), as Teaching Assistant for four graduate- and undergraduate-level courses, and created an interdisciplinary framework for conducting nature-based research. Shivani is a two-time EDF Climate Corps Fellow, currently based in New York. She has served in various editorial and environmental leadership positions, most recently as Executive Editor of the Chicago Policy Review and VP of Harris Sustainability Initiative.
By any measure, it has been an eventful four years for climate policy, with billions in spending and many major regulations finalized. Here’s a timeline of the Top 30 actions.
Guest contributor Cassandra Vo writes that the state should do more to protect mobile homes dwellers from heat. Work by a UCLA Law Clinic on behalf of Leadership Counsel for Justice and Accountability points the way forward on inclusive heat resiliency standards.
“We have a long way to go, but we’ve started down the path.” I asked my UCLA Emmett Institute colleagues what climate actions give them hope on Earth Day. Here’s how they answered.
A state bill to cap the fixed charges utilities can collect in California would shut down an important debate about equity and rate design. Here’s a better way forward.
Guest contributor Cassandra Vo writes that the state should do more to protect mobile homes dwellers from heat. Work by a UCLA Law Clinic on behalf of Leadership Counsel for Justice and Accountability points the way forward on inclusive heat resiliency standards.