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Jon Christensen in The Daily Bruin: Opinion — UCLA Needs to Better Publicize its Sustainability Plans to Improve Progress
Jon Christensen, an adjunct assistant professor of environmental humanities and senior researcher at the Institute of the Environment and Sustainability, said a lack of awareness translates to a missed opportunity…
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IoES Director Peter Kareiva Quoted in USA Today: Republican and Democratic Voters Actually Agree on Many Climate Change Fixes. So Why No Action?
A new Public Agenda/USA TODAY/Ipsos survey finds a preponderance of Americans – Republicans, Democrats and independents – support climate change fixes. IoES director Peter Kareiva finds the poll very encouraging.
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Ann Carlson Quoted in Bloomberg Environment: Youth Climate Plaintiffs Face Continued Legal Risks After Defeat
Serious legal risks lie ahead for the 21 young plaintiffs who are pushing forward in court after losing their ambitious climate change lawsuit against the federal government. A three-judge panel…
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Environmental Science Practicum Director Noah Garrison Interviewed for KCRW’s ‘Press Play:’ Trump Rolls Back Obama-Era Water Protections. How Will That Affect California?
This week, Trump rolled back Obama-era water protections. How will that affect California? In an interview with KCRW’s Press Play, UCLA Institute of the Environment and Sustainability’s Environmental Science Practicum Director Noah…
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Pritzker Award Winner Hindou Oumarou Ibrahim Featured in Channel4: ‘It’s becoming an issue of survival – people are dying because of climate change’
Hindou Oumarou Ibrahim, 2019 Pritzker Emerging Environmental Genius Award winner who’s been invited to Davos to talk about her work campaigning on behalf of the indigenous Mbororo people of Chad…
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Alex Wang Quoted in Bloomberg Environment: China Wants Activists to Stay Out of Its War on Pollution
The China model of environmental protection “has been cautious about too much organized society participation,” said Alex Wang, a law professor at UCLA who used to work with green NGOs…
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Pritzker Award Winner Hindou Oumarou Ibrahim in The National — Davos 2020: Governments and Companies back 1 Trillion Tree Initiative
The World Economic Forum on Wednesday said an initiative it is leading to plant 1 trillion trees by 2030 to reduce harmful carbon in the Earth’s atmosphere is being backed…
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Ursula Heise Mentioned in The Daily Bruin: UCLA Should require Students to Take class on Climate Change
Professor Ursula Heise, chair of the English department and a professor in the Institute of the Environment and Sustainability, pointed out that UCLA is making progress at educating the student…
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2019 Pritzker Award Winner Hindou Mentioned in World Economic Forum: ‘In my region people are dying because of climate change’: One woman’s urgent message to Davos
Greta Thunberg and 2019 Pritzker Award Winner Hindou Oumarou Ibrahim are among powerful voices calling for urgent climate action at Davos 2020.
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Ann Carlson in E&E News: ‘Kids’ Climate Case’ was Dismissed. What’s Next?
The decision last week by the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals to “reluctantly” dismiss Juliana v. United States demonstrated the limits of fighting climate change through the court system, observers…
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Pritzker Award Winner Hindou Oumarou Ibrahim in Spear’s WMS — Davos Diary: Day 2
Hindou Oumarou Ibrahim of the Association for Indigenous Women and Peoples of Chad and 2019 Pritzker award winner spoke at a panel discussion entitled ‘Averting a Climate Apocalypse’ during the…
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2019 Pritzker Award Winner Hindou Oumarou Ibrahim Mentioned in The European Sting — Dear Davos: Time to Declare an Emergency Opportunity for People and Planet
“Participants at the World Economic Forum must not just listen to the Hindou Oumarou Ibrahim – and Greta Thunberg-led youth delegation at this year’s World Economic Forum Annual Meeting –…
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Ann Carlson Quoted in The Media Times: 9th Circuit Court Decides Against Young Plaintiffs in Landmark Climate Suit
Ann Carlson, an expert on climate change at the University of California’s Los Angeles School of Law, said what surprised her and many other experts was how far the trial…
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Ann Carlson Mentioned in Clean Technica: 9th Circuit Court Rules Against Young Plaintiffs In Landmark Climate Suit
In 2015, a group of young Americans, some of them only 7 or 8 years old, sued the United States government, claiming the federal government “through its affirmative actions in…
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Cara Horowitz in Time: A Federal Court Threw Out A High Profile Climate Lawsuit. Here’s What It Might Mean For The Future of Climate Litigation
Crucially, the opinion names the seriousness of climate change and clearly states that the federal government promoted fossil fuel use. “It agrees that these kids have been injured. It also…
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Holly Jean Buck on Long Beach Sixth Annual Climate Change Symposium for The League of Women Voters of Long Beach
The League of Women Voters of Long Beach presented their sixth annual climate change symposium in partnership with the Aquarium of the Pacific and discussed the social costs of climate…
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Ann Carlson in The New York Times: Court Quashes Youth Climate Change Case Against Government
A federal appeals court has thrown out the landmark climate change lawsuit brought on behalf of young people against the federal government. While the young plaintiffs “have made a compelling…
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Jon Christensen Op-Ed in Los Angeles Times: Bickering Environmental Groups are Holding L.A.’s Last Surviving Tidal Wetland Hostage
Jon Christensen, UCLA Institute of the Environment and Sustainability professor, journalist-in-residence and founder of UCLA Laboratory for Environmental Narrative Strategies, provides a potential solution to this impasse for the Los Angeles Times.
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Daniel Swain Quoted in KCRA Sacramento: Fact Checking the January Democratic Debate
Sanders said that unless the U.S. leads “the world right now” on climate change, “the planet we are leaving our kids will be uninhabitable.” While climate change is an urgent…
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Daniel Swain Quoted in SF Gate: See the Potent Winter storm Approaching Northern California
Meteorologists and weather nerds are getting excited about a storm approaching California. The storm is expected to be potent and quick-moving, releasing a burst of frigid air, heavy rainfall, high…
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Daniel Swain in Los Angeles Times: After Thursday’s Rain, Southern California is Expected to Return to Dry Weather
Daniel Swain, a climate scientist at UCLA, tweeted on Sunday that it’s not looking like January precipitation will be enough to reverse the growing seasonal precipitation deficit to date in Northern California.
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Ryan Harrigan and Tom Smith Study Featured in Colorado State University Magazine — Death by solar: $1.6 million DOE grant supports scientists studying bird deaths at solar facilities
For several years, scientists and solar industry groups have documented evidence of birds, particularly migratory species, either colliding with solar panels or getting incinerated in the red-hot light of concentrated…
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Travis Longcore Mentioned in Directions Magazine — A Decade of Spatial Innovation: USC Spatial Sciences Presents 10th Annual Los Angeles Geospatial Summit
The Summit will also feature a group discussion on the topic of “GIS for Sustainability Science: How GIS is fundamental to our policies and practices that further sustainability and the…
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Mary Nichols Featured in LA Times: She Helped Make California a Clean Air Leader. Now Trump Could Upend that Legacy
In what she says is likely her last year in office, Mary Nichols, the chair of the state Air Resources Board and Professor in the UCLA Institute of the Environment,…
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Alan Barreca Study Featured in Daily Bruin
Climate change may cause childbirth to occur up to two weeks earlier than expected, according to a study led by Alan Barreca.