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2024-04-26

  REWIND: Building a Better Battery Supply Chain with JB Straubel and Aimee Boulanger

Batteries are a critical part of the transition away from fossil fuels. From electric vehicles to grid scale storage for wind and solar, demand for batteries is expected to grow 500% by 2030. In order to meet that demand, we’re going to need a lot more...
  Climate One from The Commonwealth Club author
2024-04-24

  Is California on Track for an Affordable and Just Energy Transition?

The Golden State has staked much of its reputation on its green credentials, with state leaders often touting its role on the leading edge of global and national climate progress. But California is falling behind in meeting its ambitious emission targ...
  Climate One from The Commonwealth Club author
2024-04-23

  California Attorney General Rob Bonta on Suing Big Oil

On behalf of the People of the State of California, Attorney General Rob Bonta has filed a lawsuit against five of the world’s largest oil and gas companies, along with the lobbying organization American Petroleum Institute, for willfully misleading th...
  Climate One from The Commonwealth Club author
2024-04-19

  Artificial Intelligence, Real Climate Impacts

Artificial intelligence can do some pretty amazing things, including for the climate. AI can help optimize the electric grid, make heating and cooling buildings more efficient, and pinpoint exactly where greenhouse gas emissions are coming from all aro...
  Climate One from The Commonwealth Club author
2024-04-12

  Nearly 2 Years In… Is the Inflation Reduction Act Delivering Yet?

In August 2022, Congress passed the biggest piece of climate legislation in our nation’s history: The Inflation Reduction Act, which put $400 billion into boosting the transition to a clean energy economy over the next ten years. The IRA has spurred co...
  Climate One from The Commonwealth Club author
2024-04-05

  Elizabeth Kolbert on Hope, Despair, and Everything In Between

Even before Al Gore’s “An Inconvenient Truth” brought climate change to the mainstream, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Elizabeth Kolbert was on the beat. Her reporting in the early 2000s culminated in her book “Field Notes from a Catastrophe,” which...
  Climate One from The Commonwealth Club author
2024-03-29

  Rising Temperatures, Rising Prices: How Climate Drives Inflation

Climate change means extreme weather, shifting landscapes, and generally more instability. More and more, you can feel the impacts of climate disruption in your wallets. Drought is pushing up the cost of candy and leading to shipping delays in the Pana...
  Climate One from The Commonwealth Club author
2024-03-22

  Climate Migration: Should I Stay or Should I Go?

The places that most people call home are coming under increasing threat from climate change. From rising seas and more frequent floods to stronger hurricanes and cyclones, to more devastating droughts and wildfires, the most habitable parts of our wor...
  Climate One from The Commonwealth Club author
2024-03-15

  Talk Isn’t Cheap: The Power of Conversation

As heat waves, storms, droughts and wildfires continue to worsen, talking can seem like a seriously insufficient climate solution. It’s fair to ask: Are we just engaged in blah, blah, blah? Too often, talking is one sided – more of a lecture aimed at c...
  Climate One from The Commonwealth Club author
2024-03-08

  How Activism Can Win Bigger and Faster with Kumi Naidoo

Kumi Naidoo is a world renowned activist and climate leader. Before going on to lead Greenpeace International then Amnesty International, Naidoo was a 15 year old anti-apartheid activist in South Africa. The boycotts he organized led to him being a tar...
  Climate One from The Commonwealth Club author