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Carbon Pricing to Combat Climate Change
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One Solution for Climate Change: Can Carbon Pricing Make a Difference?
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“Hope is being able to see that there is light despite all of the darkness.”
~ Desmond Tutu
It’s been a summer like no other here in California. Smoke and destruction from wildfires have already claimed more than 1 million acres in California alone, warmer oceans harbor zombie urchins destroying kelp forests, and the UN just released a new code red on climate change.
Wondering where to look for hope despite the current darkness? Could something as arcane as carbon pricing, a hot topic as Congress seeks to up the ante on climate action, offer a ray of light?
Program highlights:
Opening remarks from Piedmont Mayor Teddy Gray King.
A panel discussion and Q&A with:
- Anne Infeld, Volunteer, Citizens’ Climate Education | carbon pricing from a community perspective
- Daniel McFadden, Nobel laureate economist and Professor Emeritus at UC Berkeley | carbon pricing from an economics perspective
- Danny Richter, Vice President of Government Affairs, Citizen’s Climate Lobby | carbon pricing from a legislative perspective
- Mike Mielke, Senior Vice President and Head of Public Policy for the Silicon Valley Leadership Group (SLVG) | carbon pricing from a business perspective
More about our panelists:
Anne Infeld is a retired IT solutions architect and a volunteer with Citizen’s Climate Education, attracted to joining the Silicon Valley chapter because of its values, its people, and most importantly its ‘solution architecture’. Al Gore’s ‘An Inconvenient Truth’ awakened Anne to the possibility that climate change could prevent her son and daughter from ever experiencing the world that she had known. Anne holds a BS from the University of Michigan.
Daniel McFadden is the 2000 Nobel Laureate in Economics for his work in econometric methods for studying behavioral patterns in individual decision-making.
Danny Richter came to work on climate by way of medicine. Realizing the potential for a warming world to make lots of people sick, he figured the best thing he could do for the most people was to prevent the warming in the first place. As CCL’s first staffer in DC, he established our DC office where he has been responsible for developing our overall legislative strategy, clarifying the details of our policy, and interacting with other groups in DC.
Mike Mielke supports hundreds of innovation-economy companies to engage the public and wield influence in addressing pressing environmental challenges facing communities and has held posts with the White House Council on Environmental Quality and the National Estuary Program.
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