Cities & Climate Change: A Solutions Oriented Conference

Hosted by the USC Center for Sustainable Cities and Sponsored by HSBC

University of Southern California
Davidson Conference Center
Thursday, April 30, 2009
9:00 AM - 4:30 PM

For more information, contact the USC Center for Sustainable Cities via email or 213-740-5570.

While cities have contributed their fair share to climate change - think belching factories and clogged freeways - they might also be more promising than problematic in the future.  On April 30th, we will turn to urban solutions, like energy efficient office buildings, mass transportation, and cleaner industry, that might curb climate change.

We’ve asked policy makers, practitioners, justice advocates, and business leaders to join us in exploring these three questions in relation to Southern California: How do we build better cities?  How will our health be affected?  How will the green economy relieve the pressure, especially as felt by the chronically disadvantaged? 

Keynote Address by Dr. Phillip Duffy
Science Director of Climate Central, Director of the University of California Institute for Research on Climate Change and its Societal Impacts, and Professor in the School of Natural Sciences, UC Merced
Dr. Duffy is Science Director of Climate Central and the founder and director of the University of California Institute for Research on Climate Change and its Societal Impacts, as well as an Adjunct Associate Professor at UC Merced. Previously, Dr. Duffy conducted research in atmospheric science and climate change at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, where he was a physicist for 22 years. Dr. Duffy holds a Ph.D. in applied physics from Stanford University. He is a member of the Nobel-honored Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). He has published over 50 peer-reviewed papers on many aspects of climate science. His recent work has focused on increasing the spatial resolution of climate projections, to make them more suitable for assessing potential societal impacts of climate change.

Conference participants include representatives from Arup, the California State Senate, CBE, CRA-LA, SCOPE/Apollo Alliance, Urban-ReLeaf, USC, the Ventura City Council, VerdeXchange, and other organizations.