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San José Mayor Matt Mahan: Live from SF Climate Week

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🗓️ 6 May 2025

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

Climate progress is stalling at the federal level, making local action more critical than ever. “In an increasingly urbanized world, cities must play the leading role in achieving our climate goals,” says San José Mayor Matt Mahan.  But what does that look like in practice? What role can cities play in accelerating the transition to a fully electrified economy across all sectors? And how does he plan to secure funding in uncertain times? This conversation was recorded live as part of SF Climate Week 2025. Guest: Matt Mahan, Mayor of San José Support Climate One by going ad-free! By subscribing to Climate One on Patreon, you’ll receive exclusive access to all future episodes free of ads, opportunities to connect with fellow Climate One listeners, and access to the Climate One Discord. Sign up today. For show notes and related links, visit our website. Ad sales by Multitude. Contact them for ad inquiries at multitude.productions/ads Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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to learn more. This is Climate One. I'm Ariana Brocious. The whirlwind of San Francisco Climate Week is behind us, but we're still processing the many

0:40.3

powerful moments and conversations.

0:43.0

With all the chaos and uncertainty coming from Washington, it's really important to recognize

0:48.4

the role of local civic policy and action on climate.

0:52.7

As an entrepreneur, Matt Mayhan helped create an app called Causes That Raise Money for

0:57.7

Nonprofit Organizations, and he later ran another social medium for civic engagement.

1:03.6

In 2022, he was elected mayor of San Jose, California.

1:08.0

For today's bonus pod, we'll hear his conversation with Greg Dalton on the

1:11.8

Climate One stage during SF Climate Week in April. So you've said that in increasingly urbanized

1:18.8

world, cities must play the leading role in achieving our climate goals. So how are you

1:24.5

putting that into practice in San Jose? Yeah, well, over the March of human history, we've seen this trend toward urbanization.

1:30.3

More and more people over time live in denser urban environments.

1:33.3

There's great economic mobility opportunities.

1:36.3

But with that, cities have become the key leverage point for solving big societal problems,

1:41.3

figuring out how to educate people, mobility solutions,

1:46.3

and energy is so foundational to the economy, of course.

1:50.1

And so what we've done in San Jose is tried to take a little more control over our destiny.

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