Keynote Address: Making Climate Change Policy Work Conference

Introduction of Speaker:  Cheryl Brown, UC Berkeley Labor Center

Speaker: Manuel Pastor, University of Southern California

Manuel Pastor is Professor of Geography and American Studies & Ethnicity at the University of Southern California, where he also serves as Director of the Program for Environmental and Regional Equity (PERE) at U.S.C.’s Center for Sustainable Cities and as Co-Director of U.S.C.'s Center for the Study of Immigrant Integration (CSII). Founding director of the Center for Justice, Tolerance, and Community at the University of California, Santa Cruz, he holds an economics Ph.D. from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.

Sponsor details: This event was sponsored by the UC Berkeley Labor Center with Apollo Alliance, California Labor Federation's Workforce and Economic Development Program, California State Building and Construction Trades Council, Don Vial Center on Employment in the Green Economy, Energy Foundation, Environmental Justice and Climate Change Initiative, and Western Climate Advocates Network (WeCAN). Funding was provided by the Energy Foundation, French American Charitable Trust, and Pacific Gas and Electric.