Watch CPR Initiative’s 4th Public Hearing on Climate Action: Hayward, CA
What More Should The United States Do on Climate?
August 7, 2024 | Hayward, California
Co-hosted by CPR Initiative and the City of Hayward
Testimony from Speakers In Order of Appearance
- (00:00:00) (Opening remarks) Erik Pearson, Environmental Services Manager, City of Hayward
- (00:08:30) Dan Galpern, Founder, General Counsel & Executive Director, CPR Initiative
- (00:13:40) Timothy Lenton, co-author of The Global Tipping Points Report 2023, Director of the Global Systems Institute and Chair in Climate Change and Earth System Science at the University of Exeter
- (00:25:49) Rob Jackson, Senior Fellow of the Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment and the Stanford Precourt Institute for Energy
- (00:33:18) Daniel Swain, Climateologist and meterologist with Weather West of UCLA
- (00:44:18) Lauren Weston, Executive Director of Acterra, a nonprofit environmental organization in Palo Alto, California, bringing people together to create solutions for a healthy planet
- (00:50:18) Wil Burns, visiting professor with Northwestern University’s Program in Environmental Policy and Culture, adjunct professor within Northwestern’s Master of Science in Energy and Sustainability (MSES) Program, Founding Co-Director of Institute for Responsible Carbon Removal at the American University, and a CPR Initiative Board Advisor
- (00:59:14) Karina Garbesi, Professor Emerita and Director of Environmental Studies, California State University East Bay
- (01:04:54) Helen Fitzmaurice, Researcher at UC Berkeley School of Education, Oakland Teachers Advancing Climate Action
- (01:19:01) Temi Ogunkanmi, Hayward Youth Commissioner
- (01:23:06) Josue Barrera, Hayward Youth Commissioner
- (01:29:46) Kumi Naidoo, Prior Head of Greenpeace and Amnesty International, and visiting lecturer at Stanford Center for Democracy, Development and the Rule of Law
- (01:39:56) Donn J. Viviani, President of CPR Initiative’s Board & former EPA scientist (over 35 years), including service as Director of EPA’s Climate Policy Division
- (01:46:28) Elaine Salinger, Retired Veterinarian and Leader of Citizens’ Climate Lobby San Mateo Chapter
- (01:49:43) Shamak Gowda, Local Youth Activist and Member of Citizens’ Climate Lobby Silicon Valley East’s Chapter
- (01:52:54) Jim Clark, Local Resident
- (01:55:12) Dan Heil, Local Resident
- (01:57:53) Abe Mazliach, Member of Silicon Valley East Chapter of Citizens’ Climate Lobby Silicon Valley
- (02:00:36) Marlese Conoll, Local Resident
- (02:03:51) Sarah Aminoff, Local Resident
- (02:07:42) Bruce King, Member of Friends of San Lorenzo Creek
- (02:11:07) Stanley Wang, Resident of San Ramon and Graduate Student in Economics, Volunteer with Fridays For Future, Sunrise Movement, and Extinction Rebellion
- (02:13:25) John Gage, New Hamphire State Coordinator for Citizens’ Climate Lobby
- (02:19:23) (Closing remarks) Dan Galpern, General Counsel & Executive Director, CPR Initiative
Written Testimony
CPR Initiative is grateful to the City of Hayward for its partnership in the 4th public hearing on climate action. We also thank all our speakers—especially our climate experts, researchers, professors, students and local activists—all of whom provided important testimony for the record.
