Through policy, investment, significant change and im so excited and glad that San Francisco has been an environmental leader. Dp pushing for transformtive change in climate policies, in fact. When i served on the board of sprierdzs when we first finally got clean power sf through the board the single most important thing we could do to impact climate change. Where almost 4 huh human,000 customers and started our advocacy using equity in Climate Action plan in the Bayview Community saw 90 percent. Folks stay in the program. Manning sty row foam, that was a challenge we did it it is making a difference now. Work that we did to ban straws and to find reusability options. I have been you are not happy about those reusable options but the fact is San Francisco was generating a million straws a day that were impacting our waste. One other things we are work hard on is to get rid of single use items you order food and put the forks and i bunch of ketchup you dont use in your bag xu put them in a pile and you still never use them . We gotta change that. We gotta deal with the challenges around upon waste. We are so grateful to be here with a number of our leaders including our City Attorney david chew. Our puc director and formy City AttorneyDennis Herrera the head of the d. Environment. And the department of public healing doctor grant colfax i see a lot of Council Generals here today. Thank you so much because it is not just about San Francisco it is about the entire world and how we combat the climate. We appreciate your partnership and taking our Climate Actions plan to your countries and and bringing us the information on the things you are doing to impact the climate. We have many of our commissioners from the d. Environment. Some of our i dontee elected leaders yet. They will come rolling in sooner or later. I want to thank the San FranciscoBicycle Coalition for being here. The San Francisco council of district merchants. Hotel council, avenue green light. The San Francisco chamber of commerce. Thank you, friends of the urban forest and the association of the ramaytush ohlone. Thank you all so much for being partners on the efforts to really impact the environment in a positive way. I want to also recognize, i think aaron from clean tech is here. Somewhere. He is where. Upon hey, aaron now believe it or not. Aaron created new technology to repurpose water to make beer. And i think you will try it today. Is it good . Is it clean, for real . Okay. We will try it today. Im it is when . Okay. Im a wine person myself. When in rome. And we want to recognize buy right they have been a San Francisco clean business since 2009. We are glad and we have divisidero in my neighborhood im a fan of the work that they do. To talk about San Francisco a bit i touched upon temperature muni is one of the greenest floats in north america. 25 years ago we implemented the first states largest combustible program and it really stinks but it it is good for the environment. Today we have 900 businesses including oracle park and chase centerful marriott and the st. Regis that are cert for identification under the San FranciscoGreen Business program. And our airport is the cleanest, greenest in the country. And as i said we launched clean power and we are continuing to do all we can to really support and protect the environment. And as a the result of all of you being here today, we then and there is manage this you care about. In addition to the incredible women we are honoring today and no, we are not honoring women during march, during womens History Month we are choose to be intentional about uplifting so many incredible women who have done Amazing Things around environmental sustainability. With that i want to introduce to talk a bit about what you can expect for Climate Action week. How you can make a difference and how can you make so many of the things a per of your life. I want to introduce just and i know morgan of climate base. Who will talk a bit about all of the things we have scheduled this week and more for Climate Action week in San Francisco. Thank you all for being here today. [applause]. Thank you. Sxefrn another round for mayor breed. That was amazing thank you for being a leader in the state. So, im justin harden im a bay area native and with climate base. Founded on the premise that our brightest minds looking for work can be difficult to find the roles that have the most impact. Our platform from a lack of job opportunity for people eatingtory tackle tasks for the climate. Our mission is to mobilize tality tonight accelerate Climate Solutions. Through efforts connections with individual negligence Mission Driven opportunitiful cultivated a community and launched the fellowship to support the transition in the climate space and this spring close to 1800 graduates. We see San Francisco as a hub. Technology and leadership. Citys enthusiasm inspired us to organize sf climate week events show casing solutions spearhead by our director i will hand the mooishg over to morgan campbell. [applause] thanks, justin. Last year we set tout to plant the seed for the first San Francisco climate week. We announced intention 6 weeks before earth day and were over everoverwhelmed by the response. Our first year over 350 organizations came together to run over 100 events engaging 7,000 in discussions about Climate Solutions tapped in the passion of the Climate Community and the building sprint culture of San Francisco and the result was the learningest climate garthings it was built by the community for the community. This year we are excited scale our impact with the support of the city of San Francisco and partners at most financial. Sales force and the initiative. We are anticipating 15,000 atendsees across 200 events show case how san franciscans forefront of Climate Development of technologies to funding models that accelerate development the forging of partnerships. We are shining a spotlight on businesses making businesses sustainable. And doing this throughout food. Hospitality per ins supporting events throughout the week. So, come out and join us on april 2127 to celebrate work in our community. And learn about the new path ways we are forging for our future. [applause] all right. Thank you both just and i know morgan. I want to also at this time recognize the rec and park director phil ginsburg. [applause] for those of you who grew up in San Francisco you remember what the parks used to be. Im sure. Well, the parks are extraordinary. And every person lives within a 10 minute walk from a park and open space this they can enjoy in San Francisco. And it is Nothing Better than a Beautiful Day like today. Sitting out on delores park or Golden Gate Park or any park amazon any park in San Francisco is extraordinary. We appreciate you being here phil ginsburg. [applause] now the next personim ask to speak was not necessary low on the program but i do think he should speak and many should know him. He has been working with the department of environment for many years and now he is the leader of the department. Helping to implement our equity focus Climate Action plan in San Francisco. Welcome tyrone jew. [applause] mayor breed, throwing a curve ball in the agenda putting me on the spot. Truly, i am up here as one you see my fellow Department Heads here the leadership of the mayor. My commission and the leadership of all of you. And thats what earth month dpa sf climate week is truly all about. About all of us working together. On our united mission. Make this city more equal, just city and this planet equal, just plan and he get there if we are working together. And so thanks to the leadership of the mayor when we put forward our 21 Climate Action plan. Mayor breed likes to say, 5 years ahead of the state of california. We will be net zero by 2040. [applause] we get there by working together with all of the hard work of representatives here and the mayor and all of us. There are so many strategies we have to employ and innovation and new ideas we have to generate if we will reach our goal and the planets goal of peculiar sustainable. Thats why sf climate week is an important mile stone for this city we are scaling and up bringing community. Bring up the best in brightest minds our city has to offer this is the ai capitol of the world and also the sustainability Climate Technology capitol of the world as well. This is how we get there. To reach our city genome our planet goals and community goal. Again, mayor said when we put forward the action plan did in the say we will set this goal of net zero by 2040 it is how we get there. And if we dont get there with community, together walking hand in hand how this works; to support and grow and empower the communities it is not sustainable transition. Im excited to be here as the director of the Environment Department. Joined by an amation team a hand to my Environment Department staff. Because well get there we will get there as a city. I know we will get there has a nation, thanks to the leadership of president biden. Pel lose and he the reduction act all of this energy and attention as it should have been for a long time is paid attention to as far as where we need to go on this crisis. Im optimistic thifrngs to mayor breed and awful us here today and thank you so much. Thank you. Tyrone and thank you and your entire team for the work do you to continue to push the envelope. And make sure this we are leaders in Climate Action. Because the affects of the decisions we make have an impact on the rest of the count row often times i am being contacted by other mayors throughout the United States who want to look at our dliement action plan and want to understand how we were able to infuse equity net equation and also i should mention the work we have doornld housing and how we talk about housing as a climate issue. Making sure that housing is a longer transit corridors and create an environment in the just for people who are within a 10 minute walk of a park but how about those who are able to hop on muni or walk to work in San Francisco. It is what we need to do to continue to make sure that we are building more housing, providing opportunity and really meeting our climate goals using every option that we have available. We are grateful that each you as leaders in your communities and throughout San Francisco are joining us here today. Now to the good stuff. We get to honor extraordinary women who are just dog when they dom this is when we do we do what we do. Doing what they do. And as a result of what they have done and continue to do, they are making real impacts on helping to support and uplift the environment in their various ways. First i will start with ms. Julia collins. Julia believes if you want to change the world you need to start with our food system. She is a trail blaze in tech and climate sectors and called the queen bee of climate. I like that. Like beyonce. But a climate. Made history the first black woman to cofound a Unicorn Company and leads Planet Forward. And ai powered decarbonization platform that helps companies reduce their Green House Gas e missions. With that, ladies and gentlemen, it is my honor to recognize ms. Julia collins. That may be the first and last time im beyonce are mentioned in the same sentence. Im holding that to my heart. Thank you so much. Mayor breed. Thank you so much to the city of San Francisco and to everyone who is garthed here to recognize the contributions that many of us are making in service to a healthy planet. I have been working for the last 16 years of food and technology and i have been trying to solve the same problem reimagine mag food systems so they work better for everyone on the planet. The ceo of Planet Forward im proud we are using ai to decarbonize Global Supply chains. Im the coceo of my household. Family of 4. As the coceo i hold a belief to be true which is every person has the right to be a part of the solution to climate change. And it starts with something simpleace changing what and how we each whether shifting to plant forward men use or growing food at home or in our communities or reducing that waste this is per of the way we live. The most radical things we can do is shift our food choices. And you one person cant do it alone. One solution alone will not be the silver beaut bullet if we combine 8 billion on the planet many in San Francisco we do have a shot at this. And i will close by saying we are live nothing a narrow winnow of time when it is still possible to stave the worse of what will happen as our planet begins to rise. The begins to continue to warm. I wake up every day often sick with the belief that we can and will get the job done. Lets get the job done together. Thank you. [applause]. All right. Queen bee. And also jewel whys dad is one of our Arts Commissioners the president of the Arts Commission here in San Francisco. Thank you so much Chuck Collins for your service at this time city of san frap i know you are proud papa now. Our next honoree is francis yee. Thanks to francis leadership, bb boutique this is year the first ever San Francisco certified Green Business in china town. Not just that but francis worked to achieve the program highest level of cert ifkdz for going above to implement water conversation, energy and waste operations at the boutique to minimize their carbon affordability. Make sure you check it out and make sure it is role and purchase something and prosecute motes bike to work days the staff appreciated. She is justice done i number of things to make sure it is incorporate in the the work she does and also making sure this she makes San Francisco more beautiful with her amazing fashions and what she is able to sell. Again. Take a trip to china town to visit. Dd boutiques. Ladies and gentlemen, francis lee. [applause] im going to invite my husband to say a few remarks. Thank you. Yea. We run a business, dd boutiques. It was started by francis mother over 35 years ago in San Francisco. And since taking over the operations francisments to offer the business in environmentally friendly and responsible manner to do what little we can do not add to the pollution already there. In the process of being certified Green Business, not only it reflects her value of being environmentally friendly and that adds to negative consequences for businesses it teaches us of how to make those things sxhap how to minimize waste. So thank you. And thank you the city of San Francisco. [applause] all right. Our next honoree is claire. Claire joined us last week in front of the steps of city hall to commemorate the 10 years of vision zero and how important it is that the city do more. Since our time on the Youth Commission claire a voice for safe streets, access to Public Transit and sustainable transportation. Born and raised in the tenderloin claire leads advocacy at the San FranciscoBicycle Coalition. There, she is hyper focused bridge the gap with the historically under served communities special transportation equity. Ladies and gentlemen, welcome claire. [laughter] wow. Thank you so much mayor breed for your leadership and the award and to all of the folk who is nominated me for temperature i grew up in the densest neighborhood in the city where i walkd and took muni every day. I lived the transit first policy before i knew it existed. Because i walked, biked and took the bus i developed a deep connection to my neighborhood, neighbors and city at large. A transportation continues to a mix 20 of Green House Gases it is important we dot w to encourage people to use modes of transportation like walking, biking and taking muni. Not only are the modes better for the environment but for our neighborhoods. Local economy and personal health. That is why as director of advocacy for the Bicycle Coalition im so excite body the c