Four climate change experts wholly agreed on the need to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, but share dissimilar visions in achieving this goal while at a recent discussion sponsored by the UCLA Institute of the Environment and Sustainability.
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The UCLA Sustainable LA Grand Challenge’s first competitive research grants will go to 11 projects, ranging from developing lightweight solar panels that double as batteries to studying the costs of algae-based biofuels.
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Cara Horowitz, of UCLA School of Law and the Emmett Institute on Climate Change and the Environment, joins KPCC’s Take Two to discuss the Supreme Court’s 5 to 4 split decision to put regulation of power plant emissions on hold. The court’s decision puts a temporary halt on the Environmental Protection Agency’s Clean Power Plan while it considers legal challenges from 29 states and energy industry groups.
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Sean Hecht (UCLA School of Law and Emmett Institute on Climate Change and the Environment) discusses the upcoming California Coastal Commission meeting, detailing potential impacts of decisions made by the commission.
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California’s ecosystems are being pulled apart in an era of climate change, according to the largest-ever empirical study of how different plant species are moving. Jon Christensen (Institute of the Environment and Sustainability and department of History) led the study.
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