Join us in Sacramento or online May 26 for the Preparing for Impact Convening: Unveiling California’s New Climate Change Projections to Guide Action.
The event will provide a first look at how the upcoming Fifth Climate Change Assessment will help guide future planning, policy, and investments to protect communities and strengthen climate resilience across the state.
Agenda (see below) includes panel discussions around updated climate science and projections that will be featured in California’s Fifth Climate Change Assessment coming out later this year.
Tuesday, May 26
1–5 p.m.
CNRA Headquarters (Auditorium), Sacramento + Zoom
715 P Street, Sacramento CA 95814
Agenda
- 1 p.m. Welcome: Standing up for Climate Science – Secretary Wade Crowfoot
- 1:30 p.m. Climate Change Assessments Panel: Scaling Solutions and Driving Decisions
- Moderator: Jenn Phillips, Assistant Secretary for Climate Change, California Natural Resources Agency
- Panelists:
- Elea Becker Lowe, California Climate Change Assessment Manager, Governor’s Office of Land Use and Climate Innovation
- Julian Reyes, Chief of Staff, Union of Concerned Scientists
- Alex Hall, Director of the Institute of the Environment and Sustainability, University of California, Los Angeles
- 2:30 p.m. California’s Fifth Assessment Climate Data and Tools Panel
- Moderator: Andrew Jones, Science Advisor to California Natural Resources Secretary Wade Crowfoot
- Panelists:
- Julie Kalansky, Climate Scientist, Scripps Institution of Oceanography
- Owen Doherty, Principal Research Scientist, Eagle Rock Analytics
- Paul Ullrich, Professor of Regional Climate Modeling, University of California, Davis
- 3:30 p.m. Use Cases and Applications of Fifth Assessment Data and Tools Discussion
- John Abatzoglou, Professor of Climatology, University of California, Merced
- Kripa Jagannathan, Research Scientist, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
- Anuj Desai, Senior Advisor, Southern California Edison
- Andrew Schwarz, Climate Action Manager, California Department of Water Resources
- 4 p.m. What’s Next and Closing
- Fireside Chat: Abby Edwards, Senior Deputy Director at the Governor’s Office of Land Use and Climate Innovation, and Theresa Maldonado, Vice President for Research & Innovation at the University of California Office of the President.
- Closing Remarks – Secretary Wade Crowfoot