Climate-Safe California Pioneer Endorsers
Who they are and why they endorse the campaign
Learn about the Climate-Safe California campaign here and please join us by endorsing it here for accelerated climate action that will also catalyze efforts globally. Together we will secure a vibrant, healthy and climate-safe future for all. To see the full list of endorsers, click here.
Affiliations are for identification purposes only.
“Climate-Safe California is the bold pathway that leads toward shared prosperity on a healthy planet – exactly what California and the world need now.”
L. Hunter Lovins
President of Natural Capitalism Solutions,
Rocky Mountain Institute Co-Founder and author
“I applaud Climate-Safe California for recognizing that solving our climate crisis requires setting the bar high enough to actually meet the challenge. I endorse this effort to keep California on that course, leading our country and the world toward climate solutions.”
Jared Huffman
U.S. Congressman
“The people of California have led the way combatting climate change and developing one of the nation’s preeminent green economies. That said, as America’s most populace state, we know we must do better because climate change is catching up to us. The Golden State is the canary in the coal mine. Now more than ever, we need the Climate-Safe California initiative and I’m honored to endorse its bold vision.”
Mike McGuire
California State Senator
“This is urgent and desperately needed. Also urgent is a just transition and safety net for those working in the fossil fuel industry. We must not leave people behind as seen in the coal industry.”
Carmen Ramírez.
Mayor Pro Tem City of Oxnard and public interest attorney
“[The Climate Center] has emerged as a force this year in our public policy discussions. We know that this has been a long time coming, but this campaign for a Climate-Safe California is not only crucial but it is scalable. The goal for a 2030 near term net negative emissions target is not just something we should be striving for in California, but should be pushing the next administration [in Washington] to embrace as well.”
Senator Henry Stern
California State Senator
“I strongly endorse the goal of Climate-Safe California to achieve net-negative emissions. 2050 is too late. The campaign’s focus on science, urgency, and policy is exactly what’s needed – and California must lead the way.”
Terry Tamminen
Former CAL EPA Secretary under Governor Schwarzenegger, former CEO of the Leonardo DiCaprio Foundation and President of Seventh Generation Advisors
“The lesson of COVID-19 is that a clean energy plan for the state and world must be combined with a plan for true social justice. Climate-Safe California integrates and makes concrete many of the pieces we need to implement what is already state policy here in California, a just and equitable transition to a 100% green energy plan in a state that values biodiversity and human and natural resources.”
Daniel Kammen, PhD.
Professor and Chair, Energy and Resources Group,
Professor, Goldman School of Public Policy,
former Science Envoy for the U. S. Department of State
@dan_kammen
“Climate change is a public health crisis that impacts current and future generations.”
Venise Curry, M.D.
San Joaquin Regional Director, Communities for a New California
Board Member, The Climate Center, Fresno
“Climate change is here. It is now. The Climate Center offers the best roadmap to get us where we need to be in the next few years. We need a carbon descent plan, and we need it now. Climate-Safe California is just such a plan.”
Ed Begley Jr.
Actor and environmentalist
“Coronavirus has made two things clear, when scientists warn us about pending catastrophes, listen to them; and acting preventively saves lives and treasures. Climate-Safe California applies these lessons.”
Jonathan Parfrey
Executive Director, Climate Resolve (Los Angeles)
“I endorse Climate-Safe California because it leads to the greenhouse gas reductions mandated by the most current scientific evidence, and because it is designed to unleash business innovation to help solve the climate crisis, the world’s most pressing issue..”
John “Mac” McQuown
Director, Dimensional Fund Advisors,
entrepreneur, environmentalist, and philanthropist
“The climate crisis is already impacting California residents on an economic basis that is not sustainable. Climate-Safe California advances legislation that leverages the technology and innovation necessary to combat climate change and reduce GHG emissions.”
Catherine Von Burg
CEO and President, SimpliPhi Power, Inc.
“The Climate Center’s suite of decarbonization policies are all required to stay below 2°C (3.6°F) warming and avoid dangerous climate chaos. We need aggressive, equitable policies in place now so society can transition to a fossil-fuel-free economy as quickly and safely as possible.”
Carl Mears, PhD.
UN climate scientist and Director,
Board Member, The Climate Center
“The Climate Center’s platform is a win-win for people and the planet. It will rapidly jumpstart an economy in peril while beginning the process to reverse the climate crisis.”
Efren Carrillo
Board President, The Climate Center,
former Supervisor, County of Sonoma
