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Business Network Event: A Conversation With Assemblymember Rick Zbur – California Climate Legislation in 2026

Los Angeles Cleantech Incubator (LACI), 525 S Hewitt St Suite 150, Los Angeles, CA 90013

This event is by invitation only. RSVP via the form below is required. You are invited to join Assemblymember Rick Chavez Zbur as he offers an exclusive perspective on making energy more affordable while reaching California’s climate goals. Adam Mohabbat, LACI’s Director of Transportation Electrification, and Mary Leslie, LABC’s President, will join Barry Vesser, The … Read more

Climate Innovation Meets Working Lands: Hybrid Carbon Dioxide Removal Strategies in California

Zoom

California has unique opportunities for deploying hybrid carbon dioxide removal strategies that use technology to enhance natural processes that draw down carbon from the atmosphere. This webinar explored how biochar and mineralization can remove carbon from the atmosphere and store it for long periods of time while improving California’s agricultural soils and forest resilience. Participants … Read more

Business Network Event: Making Electricity Affordable Through Smart Policy and Programs

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Man with rooftop solar array

This event is by invitation only. The Climate Center invites you to a discussion about making energy more affordable by prioritizing local, clean energy resources and reducing barriers to electrifying homes. Utility rates in California have been rising much faster than inflation for years. Data center energy demand is also now driving up costs. Assemblymember … Read more

The Best Ideas from COP30, the UN Climate Summit in Brazil

Zoom

This year, the United Nations climate summit — COP30 — took place in Belém, Brazil. This is The Climate Center’s fifth year as an official observer organization at the Conference of the Parties (COP). The event provided a unique platform to glean ideas from around the world and showcase California’s continued commitment to climate action … Read more

Enhancing Collaboration to Achieve Clean, Distributed Energy Policy Goals

2000 Franklin St. Oakland, CA 94612

Accelerated deployment of clean, distributed energy resources like rooftop solar, batteries, and electric vehicles in California would help solve multiple challenges, including energy affordability, resilience, and equity. The purpose of this meeting is to collaboratively envision how aligned stakeholders — including environmental organizations, environmental justice advocates, and related industry allies — can collaborate more effectively … Read more

California’s Nature-based Climate Solutions: Building Healthy Soils and Sequestering Carbon

Press Conference 2, Area D, United Nations climate conference, COP30 in Belém, Brazil

During this press conference, which took place in Belém, Brazil at COP30, Secretary of the California Department of Food and Agriculture (CDFA) Karen Ross joined The Climate Center’s Legislative Manager Allison Hilliard to discuss California’s Healthy Soils Program. Secretary Ross explained how the program is helping to shift California farmers’ practices to composting, cover crops, … Read more

Nature-based Solutions in the Carbon Dioxide Removal Portfolio

CDR Pavilion, United Nations climate conference, COP30 in Belém, Brazil

This event — part of the annual United Nations climate change conference, COP30, in Belém, Brazil — will explore the benefits of nature-based solutions as a critical part of the Carbon Dioxide Removal (CDR) portfolio. California has established nation-leading targets for scaling nature-based climate solutions, as defined in AB 1757 (C. Garcia and R. Rivas, … Read more

Advanced Geothermal Energy, a Round-the-Clock, Renewable Energy Source

The USA Climate Pavilion, Blue Zone, COP30 in Belém, Brazil

During this press conference, which took place in Belém, Brazil at COP30, The Climate Center’s Chief Program Officer Barry Vesser discussed Advanced Geothermal Energy Systems (AGES). These systems have the potential to provide communities with clean electricity at any time of day or night, almost indefinitely. AGES are a perfect complement to solar and wind … Read more

How the United States is Making Progress on Climate Action Despite the Trump Administration

Blue Zone, Press Conference 2 Area D, Climate Registry Pavilion, COP30 in Belém, Brazil

During this press conference, which took place in Belém, Brazil at COP30, the annual United Nations climate change conference —  we brought together a panel of state and agency leaders for a discussion about state-level climate action.  As the U.S. federal government takes a hostile position toward climate science and clean energy, states must step … Read more

Advancing Affordability Through  Electrification

Press Conference 2 Area D, COP30, Belém, Brazil

At this press conference at the United Nations climate conference — COP30 in Belém, Brazil — California State Senators Josh Becker and Henry Stern discussed SB 254, a California bill signed into law by Governor Newsom this year to address electricity affordability. The senators also shared the difficulties Californians are experiencing with rising electricity costs … Read more