Opinion: Irvine can lead fight on climate change, by transitioning to solar
Opinion: Irvine can lead fight on climate change, by transitioning to solar
- September 8, 2019
- Ben Leffel, sociology grad student, Orange County Register, Sept. 8, 2019
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UCI Professor Kev Abazajian, Gianna Lum and UCI doctoral student Benjamin Leffel write, “Our city laid the groundwork to ban CFCs in 1989, the first municipality to do so. A year later, cooperation between the city and UC Irvine’s Nobel laureate Professor of Chemistry Sherwood Rowland led to the creation of what is now ICLEI — Local Governments for Sustainability, the world’s largest organization of city governments sharing best practices in environmental policy.”
For the full story, please visit https://www.ocregister.com/2019/09/08/irvine-can-lead-fight-on-climate-change-by-transitioning-to-solar/.
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