Speakers from oil, high-technology, and venture capital firms discuss the ways in which businesses perceive and respond to the climate challenge, and how government policy and market signals must interact to provide the enormous investment in clean energy required in the decades ahead, especially in developing countries such as China. The China-U.S. Climate Change Forum was organized by the Berkeley China Initiative, which is forging closer ties between U.C. Berkeley and China by bringing together key experts on important international and bilateral issues. Growing concern over climate change makes this topic an obvious choice for the first of this series of annual events. This panel will highlight the...
The results of the workshops were reviewed and 2 of the workshops were condensed into 1 leaving a workshop on Citizen Engagement and one on Resilience and Operation in Cities
Welcome, keynote speech and Q&A. Filmed at the Anna Head Alumni Hall on 4/25/2014. Sponsored by The American Cultures Center at UC Berkeley.
http://americancultures.berkeley.edu/
"Accessing the Latino Demographic Data Book", Dr. Fred Gey is Assistant Director of UC Data Archive and Technical Assistance (UC DATA) at UC Berkeley where he oversees all aspects of computer technology and mass storage for UC DATA. He also manages the writing and the publication of the California latino Demograpic Data Bok, and functuions as the Data Administrator for the California Welfare Research Project. Dr. Gey has numerous publication in the areas of text and document retrieval, social science information management, and information polic. He received his Ph.D. from the UC Berkeley School of Information Management and Systems. Filmed Oct. 29, 2004.
The Berkeley Initiative in Global Change Biology (BiGCB) is a group of approximately 70 scientists who are working to improve models that predict how plants and animals will respond to climate change and habitat destruction. Anthony Barnosky, professor of integrative biology at the University of California, Berkeley discusses the goal of the BiGCB.
Full story: NewsCenter.berkeley.edu
Video by Roxanne Makasdjian, UC Berkeley Media Relations