A Fossil Fuel Free Bay Area: Virtual Summit, August 28
A Fossil Fuel Free Bay Area: Virtual Summit, August 28
Join the Bay Area Climate Emergency Mobilization Task Force for the second interactive webinar in their Virtual Summit Series: For an Environmentally Just and Regenerative Future. An accomplished list of speakers and trainers will lead four parallel sessions.
More than 200 people attended the first Virtual Summit, which focused on Sustainable and Healthy Cities. Videos from that webinar will be posted to the website linked below.
The August 28 summit will examine approaches for creating a Bay Area free of fossil fuel infrastructure. The summit will break into four concurrent workshops. Richmond City Council Member Eduardo Martinez will deliver the keynote.
- Decommissioning California refineries
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Greg Karras, former Senior Scientist, Communities for a Better Environment and author of the Decommissioning California Refineries report
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Clair Brown, Professor of Economics, UC Berkeley
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Steve Garey, retired refinery worker and United Steel Workers leader
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- “I Can’t Breathe!” Environmental justice & Bay Area air quality
- Introduction to the Community Air Protection Program: Air quality and equity
- Veronica Eady, Senior Deputy Executive Officer of Policy and Equity, Bay Area Air Quality Management District (BAAQMD)
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Measurement, risk assessment, and susceptibility: Why are Black folks dying earlier and more often?
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Dr. Raymond Tompkins, Bayview Hunters Point; SF State Professor of chemistry (retired), public health researcher, and historian
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- Collaborating for Environmental Justice in West Oakland
- Ms. Margaret Gordon, West Oakland Environmental Indicators Project
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Speaking out while Black and female
- LaDonna Williams, Vallejo, All Positives Possible
- South Sacramento: Omitted by design
- Denise R. McCoy, South Sacramento
- Richmond air monitoring: Reflections on a difficult process
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Dr. Naama Raz-Yaseef, Richmond/N Richmond/San Pablo AB 617 Steering Committee and Co-Lead Team
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- Introduction to the Community Air Protection Program: Air quality and equity
- Power mapping the Air District: Climate and environmental justice campaigns for controlling carbon pollution.
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Andrés Soto, Richmond Organizer, Communities for a Better Environment
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Jed Holtzman, Senior Policy Analyst, 350 BA
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- Defunding the fossil fuel industry
- Risk bonds: Safeguarding public finances from product life-cycle risks of fossil fuels
- Daphne Wysham, Portland Center for a Sustainable Economy
- Divestment: Ending financial support for fossil fuels
- Sandy Emerson, Fossil Free California
- Stopping the money pipeline
- Sandra Kwak, Extinction Rebellion
- Risk bonds: Safeguarding public finances from product life-cycle risks of fossil fuels
WHEN
Friday, August 28, 8:30 – 1:00
Link to join the webinar here. Website here.
