UC Santa Cruz students, faculty and community members gathered at Rachel Carson College on the UCSC campus on a gloomy Saturday for the second annual Student Climate Conference presented by the UCSC Climate Coalition.
The deputy White House climate advisor discussed how the Biden administration will tackle climate change during one of the administration s first speaking engagements on climate change this year in a webinar hosted by the Student Climate Conference at Harvard.
The event, entitled âClimate Action in Bidenâs First 100 Days,â included opening remarks from Ali A. Zaidi â08, the deputy White House national climate advisor, and a panel with Jacqueline Patterson, the senior director of the NAACP Environmental and Climate Justice Program, and Alex OâKeefe, the creative director at the Sunrise Movement. Los Angeles Times journalist Rosanna Xia moderated the discussions.