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— Upcoming Events —
LUNCH & LEARN • VIRTUAL
Wildfire and Public Health: Barriers and Opportunities to State Policy Implementation
Wednesday, July 17, 2024
12:oo – 1:00 PM (Pacific)
Wildfire smoke presents a population-wide health risk in California with significant environmental justice implications. However, the policy landscape addressing the public health impacts of wildfire remains siloed, posing challenges to integrated policy development and implementation. Join us on Zoom on July 17th for a discussion about the wildfire and public health policy landscape, based on the findings of a scoping report conducted by CLEE and the Climate & Wildfire Institute. Report author and CLEE fellow Kasia Dahlbeck will discuss the results of the report, including key recommendations for coordinated policy action and future research. Following this presentation, Patrick Wright, Director of the California Wildfire and Forest Resilience Task Force, and Julia Stein, Deputy Director of the UCLA Emmett Institute on Climate Change and the Environment, will join moderator and CLEE Executive Director Louise Bedsworth in a discussion of state policy implementation on the public health impacts of wildfire, addressing key policy barriers and opportunities for building resilience and protecting the state’s public health.
Panelists:
- Kasia Dahlbeck, Climate Research Fellow, Center for Law, Energy & the Environment
- Patrick Wright, Director, California Wildfire and Forest Resilience Task Force
- Julia Stein, Deputy Director, UCLA Emmett Institute on Climate Change and the Environment
Moderator:
- Louise Bedsworth, Executive Director, Center for Law, Energy & the Environment
LUNCH & LEARN • HYBRID
Understanding Recent Developments in Climate Risk Disclosure
Wednesday, July 24, 2024 
12:oo – 2:30 PM (Pacific)
In 2023, Governor Gavin Newsom signed Senate Bill 261 (Stern) into law, requiring all companies doing business in the state with total revenues over $500 million to disclose climate-related financial risks. Earlier this year, the Security and Exchange Commission adopted long-awaited rules to strengthen and standardize climate risk disclosure by public companies in the United States. These rules join strong policies in the European Union and pending rules in several other jurisdictions around the world. The World Resources Institute estimates that once all pending rules are finalized, nearly 40 percent of the World’s economy will be subject to disclosure rules. In this lunch and learn, we will hear perspectives from leading experts in government, industry, and law on the current status of climate risk disclosure.
Join us on Zoom or in person at: Orrick LLP, 405 Howard Street, San Francisco
Panelists:
- J.T Ho, Partner / Co-Head, Public Companies & ESG practice, Orrick
- Katie Eulitt, Director of Global Outreach, International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) Foundation
- Dave Jones, Director, Climate Risk Initiative, Center for Law, Energy & the Environment, UC Berkeley Law School
Moderator:
- Louise Bedsworth, Executive Director, Center for Law, Energy & the Environment, UC Berkeley Law School