The UCLA Sustainable LA Grand Challenge (SLA GC) and the UCLA Luskin Center for Innovation with the University of Southern California hosted a discussion event titled, “Los Angeles County Sustainability Plan: Gearing Up Economic Opportunity and Jobs” on July 17, 2019.
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A new report from C40 Cities that assesses the wider impact of city climate action on health, the economy, and the environment. The report suggests that cities, which account for nearly 70% of global energy emissions, have a crucial role to play in addressing climate change.
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UCLA Newsroom featured a story about new research findings published in Nature Sustainability. The study shows that having Los Angeles operating on 100 percent local water makes economic sense. Authors on the study include: Read more →
The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors unanimously voted to award BuroHappold Engineering and UCLA the opportunity to develop the first-ever LA Countywide Sustainability Plan. BuroHappold and its partners, which includes the UCLA Sustainable LA Grand Challenge (SLA GC) and the California Center for Sustainable Read more →
California’s cap and trade system, a market-based law that allows companies to buy and trade pollution allowances by decreasing their carbon emissions, may be disproportionately polluting communities of color. Ann Carlson, co-director of the Emmett Institute on Climate Change and the Environment at UCLA School of Law, says that worsened air quality in low-income Read more →