UCLA researchers have outlined a pathway to achieve net-zero greenhouse gas emissions in California by 2050. In a study published in Nature Sustainability, they found that these actions could prevent about 14,000 premature deaths from air pollution-related illnesses each year.
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A team from UCLA will work alongside researchers from UC Berkeley, UC Davis and UC Irvine on a landmark study to identify strategies for achieving carbon neutrality in California’s transportation sector by 2045. Transportation is the single largest source of greenhouse gas emissions in California.
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In the Desert Sun, Ann Carlson (environmental law professor and co-director of the UCLA Emmett Institute on Climate Change) asks each of the Democratic presidential candidates whether they would allow California to set its own emission standards.
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Ann Carlson, environmental law professor and co-director of the UCLA Emmett Institute on Climate Change, was quoted in a Forbes article about the differing approaches that California and the U.S. government are taking to limit harmful emissions from heavy-duty truck engines.
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Ann Carlson (professor and faculty co-director of the Emmett Institute on Climate Change and the Environment at UCLA Law) and Cara Horowitz (co-director of the Emmett Institute) were interviewed in the New York Times and Los Angeles Times, respectively, about a federal appeals court decision to dismiss Juliana v. United States. The landmark climate change lawsuit was filed by a group of 21 kids and young adults in 2015 argued that the United States government’s use of fossil fuels violates their constitutional rights to life, liberty and property.
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