Dec 12, 2017   SOURCE: BusinessWire

“California Goes Green” Authors Michael Peevey, Diane Wittenberg Available for Interviews on How California Funds Climate Initiatives and to Offer Predictions on 2018 Outlook for Climate Advances

Today (December 12, 2017) is Climate Finance Day with world banking and political leaders convening in Paris at One Planet Summit to talk about funding for climate initiatives. California Governor Jerry Brown will speak about California’s funding efforts already in place and paying for green programs.

“California Goes Green: A Roadmap to Climate Leadership” by two California environmental leaders, Michael Peevey and Diane Wittenberg, describes California’s groundbreaking climate initiatives that have improved health, created thousands of jobs and stimulated countless technological breakthroughs. Wittenberg and Peevey also had a hand in financing these initiatives.

Wittenberg founded and led the California Climate Action Registry, a nonprofit formed through state legislation. She spearheaded development of first-ever greenhouse gas accounting and inventory reporting standards that are the basis for the state’s highly successful Cap and Trade Program. She also established a promotional campaign to increase sales of electric vehicles in California. She headed the PEV Collaborative, a public-private group that brought together key environmental and energy agencies in California, major car companies, the state’s electric utilities, the legislature, the governor’s office, and large environmental organizations.

Peevey, as president of the California Public Utilities Commission, helped design California’s Cap-and-Trade program as well as utility consumers’ rate reductions based on adoption of a variety of energy-saving programs such as retirement of old refrigerators and air conditioners.