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What is a Just Transition?

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Climate One

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4.7583 Ratings

🗓️ 31 January 2020

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

Our nation’s dependence on fossil fuels has led to climate disruption and inequality. Underserved communities are the ones most harmed by pollution, lack of green space and heat-related illness. Transitioning to clean energy would seem to be the obvious answer. But in the process of trying to right old wrongs, do we risk leaving some communities behind? What does a just transition to a cleaner, greener economy look like? Visit climateone.org/watch-and-listen/podcasts for more information on today's episode. Guests: Vien Truong, Principal, Truong & Associates Darryl Molina Sarmiento, Executive Director, Communities for a Better Environment Kevin de León, President pro Tempore Emeritus, California State Senate This program was recorded in front of a live audience at The Commonwealth Club of California in San Francisco on January 14, 2020. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

I had that dream again. My small business needs IT help, but I don't use LinkedIn and I hire wrong.

0:05.8

So then I'm doing IT. And when I go to plug the service in, they become sentient and they

0:10.5

won't net a access to the network unless we forward their chain emails and memes to 10 other people.

0:14.6

And then I wake up. Don't let hiring nightmares ruin your dreams.

0:19.2

LinkedIn Jobs' new AI assistant finds and invites best fit candidates to apply

0:22.9

so you can discover talent you otherwise would have missed.

0:25.5

Get 50% of your first job post at LinkedIn.com slash AI hire.

0:28.8

Terms and conditions apply.

0:33.8

What does adjust an equitable transition from fossil fuels look like?

0:38.4

Climate One Conversations feature oil companies and environmentalists, Republicans and Democrats,

0:43.5

the exciting and the scary aspects of the climate challenge.

0:46.9

I'm Greg Dalton.

0:53.8

Our country's dependence on fossil fuels has led to climate disruption and inequality.

0:59.0

Underserved communities are the ones most harmed by pollution, lack of green space, and heat-related illness.

1:05.0

Transitioning to clean energy would seem to be the obvious answer, but are the privilege getting helped first and most?

1:11.6

We have to make sure that we're thinking about the jobs and the industries that we're creating,

1:15.3

make sure that they're sustainable and green and not gray, not killing people.

1:19.2

We have to make sure that we're creating a workforce pipeline to prepare people for those jobs.

1:24.0

And we have to make sure that we're treating people differently in this transition

1:27.6

as well. Former state senator Kevin DeLeon says that in California, they're already on it.

1:33.3

To date, we have created 500,000 jobs in the clean energy space. That is 10 times more jobs in the

1:41.3

clean energy space in California than there are coal mining jobs in all of America.

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