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IOES Climate Series: A Tale of Two Cities: Los Angeles and Beijing

November 2, 2017 @ 6:00 pm - 8:30 pm

Climate change is the existential crisis of the 21st century. How it plays out, how we can curb it, and how we adjust to the changes already underway will define our generation.

This fall, the La Brea Tar Pits and Museum, in collaboration with UCLA Institute of the Environment and Sustainability, has designed a new kind of climate series: a four-night conversation between the L.A. community and some of the world’s experts on all things climate.

DATES:
October 5 – Climate Change Cliff Notes
October 19 – Earth and Human Climate
November 2 – A Tale of Two Cities in a Hotter World: Los Angeles and Beijing
November 16 – Imagined Futures for a Hotter Planet

Thursday, November 2 A Tale of Two Cities: Los Angeles & Beijing

It is tough to feel urgency when climate change seems like something happening to future generations, in faraway lands. The reality is, it is and will affect all of us, in every city on the planet. And it’s not all bad, by the way—some cities and people could benefit from global warming. To make climate change personal, local, and real, let’s talk about how it will affect two of the greatest cities in the world, Los Angeles and Beijing. We’ll compare notes on each city’s infrastructure and governance, actual on-the-ground impacts, and how residents might react.

Conversation with

Alex Hall, UCLA Professor of Atmospheric & Ocean Sciences and Director, IoES Center for Climate Science

Brad Shaffer, UCLA Evolutionary Biologist and Director, UCLA La Kretz Center for California Conservation Science

Alex Wang, professor at UCLA School of Law

Moderated by

Stephanie Wear, Senior Scientist and Strategy Advisor at The Nature Conservancy

Details

Date:
November 2, 2017
Time:
6:00 pm - 8:30 pm
Website:
https://www.ioes.ucla.edu/event/climate-series-ages/

Organizer

Institute of the Environment and Sustainability
Phone
(310) 825-5008
Email
events@ioes.ucla.edu
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Venue

La Brea Tar Pits
5801 Wilshire Blvd
Los Angeles, CA 90036 United States
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