[In-person event]: COP27 Side Event: California's Subnational Climate Leadership

A multi-sector approach to achieving carbon neutrality

Thursday, November 10, 2022 | 9:30am - 11:00am

Blue Zone at COP27 in Egypt: The Climate Registry Pavilion

November 10: 9:30 a.m. - 11:00 a.m. (Egyptian Time)
November 10: 12:30 a.m. - 2:00 a.m. (Pacific Time)
November 10: 3:30 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. (China Standard Time)

Event is in-person in the Blue Zone at COP27 in Egypt, at The Climate Registry Pavilion.

Recording now available: https://www.gotostage.com/channel/0848dd1784a34d308b779cc9f4a4f0cf/recording/88352d31ec8645c987025d9972a6f3dc/watch

Through forward-thinking legislation, emissions standards, and other actions, California has made substantial progress over the past two decades in cutting its greenhouse gas emissions. Total emissions in California fell by 10 percent from 2000 to 2019, even as the state's population grew by nearly 20 percent, and its Gross Domestic Product (GDP) grew by more than 60 percent. The state's impressive climate record contrasts with a slight growth in emissions on the national level, as United States (U.S.) greenhouse gas emissions rose by 1.8 percent from 1990 to 2019. This record has helped establish California as a world leader in effective, innovative climate policymaking. California has consistently placed environmental  policy at the center of the statewide agenda under both Democratic and Republican administrations. This event will explore California’s interagency-based regulatory framework to plan and execute climate action, the diverse funding sources it has tapped, and the example the state has set for both local and international partners. It will examine both the advantages and disadvantages of the state's multi-agency, multi-sector, and multi-mandate approach, and how lessons learned in California can inform similar efforts underway elsewhere in the U.S. and the rest of the world. In addition, it will highlight the opportunities multi-state collaborations, like the U.S. Climate Alliance, present. 

Agenda

Moderated by Louise Bedsworth, Executive Director,  Center for Law, Energy, and the Environment
and Senior Advisor to the California-China Climate Institute, UC Berkeley

Opening Remarks (9:30 a.m.) 

  • Louise Bedsworth,  Executive Director,  Center for Law, Energy, and the Environment
    and Senior Advisor to the California-China Climate Institute, UC Berkeley

Panel Discussion (9:35 a.m. - 10:15 a.m.) 

  • Ensuring Clean Power for California
  • Siva Gunda, Vice Chair and Commissioner, California Energy Commission
  • California’s Approach to Promoting Clean Transportation
  • Darwin Moosavi, Deputy Secretary, California State Transportation Agency
  • Advancing Climate Leadership through Multi-State Collaboration    
  • Casey Katims, Executive Director, U.S. Climate Alliance 

Audience Q&A for the panel (10:15- 10:45 a.m.)

Closing Remarks  (10:45 a.m. - 11:00 a.m.) 

  • Cliff Rechtschaffen, Commissioner, California Public Utilities Commission