A new report from UCLA School of Law’s Emmett Institute on Climate Change and the Environment, authored by Megan Herzog provides recommendations on how to harness AB 2516 to enhance coastal climate change preparedness in California.
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UCLA has been recognized in three categories of the 2015 Energy Efficiency and Sustainability Best Practice Awards Competition from the California Higher Education Sustainability Conference.
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Under the leadership of Mark Gold (Associate Vice Chancellor for Environment and Sustainability), Felicia Federico (Institute of the Environment and Sustainability) and Stephanie Pincetl (Institute of the Environment and Sustainability and department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences) UCLA today issued the first comprehensive environmental report card for Los Angeles County. The county’s overall performance marks it as an unimpressive C+ student. This report card provides critical baseline information for the Sustainable LA Grand Challenge.
Source: L.A. County gets C+ from UCLA on environmental issues UCLA Newsroom, 7 Apr. 2015
Additional coverage on the first comprehensive environmental report card for Los Angeles County:
A look inside the study: UCLA gives L.A. County a C+ on the environment UCLA Newsroom, 7 Apr. 2015
A UCLA study published today provides the most detailed scientific projections to date of how climate change will affect rainfall and snowfall in Southern California through the end of the 21st century. Alex Hall (department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences) and David Neelin (Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences) worked on the project. The findings are directly relevant to the Sustainable LA Grand Challenge.
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Stephanie Pincetl’s research informs L.A. City Council’s approach to foster conservation by city’s biggest energy and water consumers.
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