The UCLA Institute of the Environment and Sustainability has partnered with KLCS PBS to foster informed, sincere discussion about the environment and society. “Sustaining US” is a weekly half-hour program which will highlight topics on a variety of topics including climate change, green infrastructure, health care, homelessness, and transportation.  

The Los Angeles City Council has passed a motion setting the ambitious goal of achieving carbon neutrality, without offsets, by 2030, a move supported by the Sustainable LA Grand Challenge (SLA GC) as it continues to leverage UCLA research to push public policy forward in urban sustainability. 

Kian Goh, assistant professor of urban planning, was recently named the new associate faculty director of the UCLA Luskin Institute on Inequality and Democracy. With a global perspective and expertise in community responses to environmental problems, Goh will be able to promote the institute’s efforts to pair critical thought with social activism in order to combat inequalities. 

UCLA’s Daniel Swain co-authored a new study published in Communications Earth & Environment which addresses questions related to why climate-related increases in extreme precipitation have not been reflected in an increase in annual floods.