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April 20, 2021 in Featured, Sticky The Center for the Political Future, the Wrigley Institute for Environmental Studies, and Grow@Annenberg will collaborate to host the week-long discussion about climate change. (Vincent Leo | Daily Trojan) The Climate Forward 2021 event kicked off Monday with its first virtual roundtable discussion. The solutions-based climate change conference will take place throughout the week, taking a break on Thursday for both a Wellness Day and Earth Day, according to Kamy Akhavan. Akhavan, executive director of the USC Center for Political Future, represents one of ...

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 “Climate Action in Biden’s First 100 Days,” included opening remarks from Ali A. Zaidi ’08, 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 O’Keefe, the creative direct...

Panelists representing dozens of community organizations, researchers will discuss disproportionate impacts of environmental problems OLYMPIA — On March 23 and 24, Attorney General Bob Ferguson and Gonzaga University School of Law will convene a symposium to discuss environmental justice issues around Washington and the work being done to address them. The goal of the symposium, titled “Environmental Justice: Race, Poverty and the Environment,” is to provide a platform for communities disproportionately impacted by structural racism, climate change and pollution. The online, two-day eve...

New MREA scholarships to support solar training in underserved areas By: Daily Reporter Staff February 11, 2021 9:53 am Alex Jarvis, an instructor with the Midwest Renewable Energy Association, teaches PV 101 to students from the NAACP in Evansville, Indiana, in August through MREA’s Rise Up Giving Scholarship program. (Photo courtesy of the Midwest Renewable Energy Association) The Midwest Renewable Energy Association is bringing solar technical training and workforce development opportunities to four Midwest partnering organizations. MREA’s partner organizations each serve low-...

How to design an energy transition that includes everyone—including the most vulnerable New Atlanticist by Katherine Walla People use face masks to protect themselves from morning smog as they ride on bike along a road. REUTERS/Mohsin Raza The COVID-19 pandemic has revealed an “interdependent” world with “huge issues of inequity,” said Sunita Narain, director general of the Centre for Science and Environment (CSE). Without addressing these realities, “we cannot deal with the virus, and it’s the same with climate change.” Narain issued the wa...