Climate on the Ballot: 2024
Let's Find Common Ground
USC Dornsife Center for the Political Future
5 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 11 April 2024
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
Debra Kahn, POLITICO California Policy Editor, joins former California Senator Fran Pavley, Pulse Fund Managing Partner Tenzin Seldon, and lawyer and environmentalist Joanne Witty for a conversation on the impact of climate change on the 2024 election and beyond. This discussion is part of the "Climate Forward 2024: Climate at the Crossroads" conference, sponsored by USC Wrigley Institute for Environment and Sustainability and CPF, in collaboration with POLITICO.
Featuring:
- Fran Pavley: Environmental Policy Director, USC Schwarzenegger Institute; Former California State Senator
- Tenzin Seldon: Founding and Managing Partner, Pulse Fund
- Joanne Witty: Lawyer; Environmentalist; Co-Chair, Political Committee of the Environmental Defense Action Fund
- Debra Kahn: California Policy Editor, POLITICO
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the bully pulpit from the University of Southern California's Center for the Political Future. |
| 0:11.7 | Our podcast brings together America's top politicians, journalists, academics, and strategists from across the political spectrum for discussions on hot button issues where we respect |
| 0:22.0 | each other and respect the truth. We hope you enjoy these conversations. |
| 0:29.2 | Thank you to UFD for having us. I'm really excited to be here. I'm Deborah Kahn, California |
| 0:35.5 | Policy Editor for Politico, and editor of our daily newsletter |
| 0:39.2 | called California Climate, which is, thank you, which is free and comes out every day at 6 p.m. |
| 0:45.4 | So you can sign up, and our lead reporter Blanca is here, too, chronicling this event. |
| 0:50.2 | So stay tuned for any news that we make. |
| 0:53.5 | So this is a really big time for climate policy and California climate policy in particular. |
| 0:58.6 | As you guys all know, I wasn't going to make any attempts at humor because I think Samantha B is here. |
| 1:05.0 | Although I don't know of James. |
| 1:07.0 | So I heard that USC was stood for University of Spoiled Children, but this event is so nice that I think it should also stand for a University of Spoiled Adults. |
| 1:18.9 | So anyway, okay. |
| 1:21.1 | It doesn't see. |
| 1:23.8 | We'll start with just our really good, illustrious slate of panelists here. |
| 1:28.4 | So we got Kenson Selden, who is founder and managing partner of Pulse Fund, which is a venture capital fund, the investing climate company. |
| 1:36.4 | And you're based, are you based in L.A. I am. |
| 1:38.9 | Recently based in L.A. and moved from San Francisco, which feels like a L.A. feels like a new state. |
| 1:45.1 | It is. It really is. So you didn't have a very large carbon footprint to get here, |
| 1:49.5 | unlike Joanne Whitty, came here from New York. She's a lawyer, New York City administrator, |
| 1:56.7 | environmentalist. If you Google her, you'll find out that she helped create the Brooklyn Bridge |
| 2:01.5 | Park and she wrote a book about it and she knows a lot about permitting and patience and how things |
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