Friday, September 27th, 2024 | 10:30 am – 11:50 am
Jana Ganion, Senior Advisor for Offshore Wind, Office of California Governor Gavin Newsom
Location: 1605 Tilia Street, Suite 100, Davis, CA
Join via Zoom
(passcode: ucdenergy)
We require all our shared strengths to design and deploy solutions to cool our overheating world. The zero carbon, zero emission energy and infrastructure transitions we need at speed and scale can also deliver a more equitable distribution of participation and benefits. We will discuss the climate crisis context, including the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) principles of climate justice, and other policies we might apply to energy and infrastructure development.
We will explore how those principles can be woven into our current emissions reduction solutions, and consider applications across a few specific cases (e.g., microgrids, offshore wind energy). We will discuss how a focus on equity can work to accelerate decarbonization, reduce air pollution and use of fossil fuels, increase reliability, and provide more durable economic opportunities, avoiding boom and bust cycles and resource and wealth extraction. And we will discuss important professional skills in this dynamic space including the ability to hold multiple complex (and also often competing and contradictory) ideas and solutions in our minds at once, triangulating, synthesizing, and conducting due diligence to take the next step forward, and then the next. (Keeping in mind, “not all who wander are lost.” – Tolkien).
Jana Ganion is Senior Advisor for Offshore Wind in Governor Gavin Newsom’s Administration. Prior to this role, Ganion served as Director of Sustainability and Government Affairs at the Blue Lake Rancheria, a federally recognized Native American Tribal government. Ganion works on climate crisis solutions and green industrial and infrastructure policy and development, with a focus on offshore floating wind energy sectors and clean energy and infrastructure resilience and transitions.
She is past co-chair of the national U.S. Department of Energy, Indian Country Energy and Infrastructure Working Group (ICEIWG), past vice chair of the California Senate Bill 350 Disadvantaged Communities Advisory Group (DACAG), served on the Redwood Coast Energy Authority Board of Directors, Pacific Gas and Electric (PG&E) Sustainability Advisory Council, and California Integrated Climate Adaptation and Resiliency Program (ICARP) Technical Advisory Council.
