Working with UCLA School of Law and Luskin School of Public Affairs, we explore the critical role governance and policy plays on a broad range of environmental issues — and potential strategies for the future.
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UCLA researchers played a pivotal role at COP16 in Cali, Colombia, sharing innovative conservation strategies to tackle global biodiversity loss.
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Lee Zeldin, the former New York congressman President-elect Donald Trump chose to lead the Environmental Protection Agency, is a perplexing choice, says UCLA environmental law expert Ann Carlson. In fact, all of…
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The Indigenous rights activist was honored for her grassroots leadership and policy advocacy in the Ecuadorian Amazon and beyond
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UCLA professor Ann Carlson discusses the legal uncertainty surrounding California’s gas car ban for The Hill, sharing how the incoming Trump administration may attempt to undo the Biden administration’s recent…
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By 2024 Pritzker Award finalist Callie Annette Veelenturf On a global scale, current efforts to protect nature have not halted devastating declines and climactic imbalances. Humanity’s behavior must shift drastically…
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Pritzker Award finalist Nina Gualinga reflects on her childhood in the Ecuadorian Amazon and her fight for Indigenous rights, gender and climate justice
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UCLA climate scientist Daniel Swain discusses the rapid intensification of hurricanes for The Hill, sharing how warming oceans are contributing to stronger storms like Hurricane Milton. Swain explains that hurricanes…
Announcements
IoES Adjunct Professor Travis Longcore has joined the PLAN-Biodiversity project as an advisory board member. This innovative European project, “The Path Towards Addressing Adverse Impacts of Light and Noise Pollution on Terrestrial…
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UCLA Institute of the Environment and Sustainability and and UCLA’s Sustainable LA Grand Challenge recently hosted a virtual seminar addressing the historic wildfires that ravaged Los Angeles in January 2025.…
The Governors’ Climate and Forests Task Force (GCF Task Force) held its first Remote Sensing Workshop at the University of California Los Angeles in June, 2023. The workshop was designed…
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Our colleagues at UCLA School of Law's Emmett Institute study and advance law and policy solutions to climate change and other environmental problems.
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