CLIMATE Justice AND THE NEW GREEN ECONOMY

PSR-LA has been involved at the local and state level in education, organizing and advocacy efforts for California’s AB 32-Global Warming Solutions Act. PSR-LA is a current member of California’s Global Warming Environmental Justice Advisory Committee.

Through this work we are advocating for policies that support the creation of a new green economy-an economy that is based on cradle to cradle production and the use of renewable technologies.  PSR-LA is using its position as a public health advocate to frame climate change as a public health crisis-one that must be addressed through regulatory approaches and market-based policies that prompt private sector investment and innovation in the new clean energy economy. 

Our partners in the climate change debate include the Los Angele Apollo Alliance on which PSR-LA serves as a steering committee member, The Los Angeles Environmental Justice Network, The California Environmental Rights Alliance and numerous other environmental justice advocates.

We see the need and the real opportunity to build a strong broad based movement calling for the wide spread deployment of renewable energy.  More importantly, because of our fundamental commitment to social justice, PSR-LA also sees the importance of requiring climate change solutions to address issues of a just transition for workers and creation of new economic opportunities in low-income communities and communities of color.   

PSR-LA was recently part of a statewide coalition of climate justice advocates who released a Declaration against the use of carbon trading schemes to address climate change.

See the Declaration at EJ Matters.

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