BCCN Campus Climate News

1. Why We Do This Work: Oil, CA Fights, Records 
2. Berkeley Experts in the Climate News [examples]
3. Can California Afford Climate Pricing?
4. Project 2030, Bakar Labs and BCCN Host CA Legislators
5. Organizing NOW for Berkeley Climate @ SF Climate Week APR 19-27
6. IRLE Announces new Climate & Society Center at Berkeley
7. Climate Journalism on Screen at BAMPFA FEB 2-23
8. Two Spring Courses: Clean Energy Campus and Personal Climate Resilience
9. New Berkeley Labor Center Report on Contra Costa Just Transition
10. Our Sturdy Golden Bearentrepreneurs
11. Mayfield AI Garage Launches at Berkeley JAN 30
12. California-China Climate Institute 2025 Fellowships
13. Money is Out There: Largest CA Grant Ever for One Region’s Climate Adaptation
14. Matched Materials and Plastics 
15. Applications NOW for the 2025 Art Rosenfeld Award for Energy Efficiency
16. Berkeley Students Get First-Ever Photograph of CA Mammal
1. Why We Do This Work in 2025 
Biden leaves us the breakthrough IRA AND the all-time record for U.S. oil production. California prepares to battle Trump (again). Meanwhile, record GHGs, record global temps, record ocean temps, record fires, and more. See the EU’s Copernicus for all the charts and graphs.
2. Berkeley Experts in the Climate News [examples]
Stephen Collier (CED) - CalMatters: Drastically Drive Up Insurance and...
Scott Stephens (RCNR) - Evacuations Can Be Deadly
Dan Farber (Law) & Severin Borenstein (EI@Haas) - How Trumps Orders Impact CA
plus Daniel Swain (now UC ANR) - Hydroclimate Whiplash
3. Can California Afford Climate Pricing?
Energy Institute's Meredith Fowlie lays it all out — electricity “affordability,” gasoline prices, cap-and-trade, and the coming legislative fights in the latest Energy Institute @Haas blog
4. Project 2030, Bakar Labs and BCCN Host CA Legislators
Last month, Project 2030 and Berkeley hosted Bay Area state legislators and staff to discuss key “tough” climate topics — carbon dioxide removal, industrial decarb, and more — with a small group of our faculty/staff and Bay Area startups. Stay tuned. For now, check out Project 2030 and Climate Center's CDR zoom webinar “Carbon Dioxide Removal and Communities: Benefits, Negotiations, Oversight and Enforcement” this Friday JAN 28 at 10 am. 
5. Organizing NOW for Berkeley Climate @ SF Climate Week APR 19-27
7 Days - 350 Events - 20k People — It’s time to put together our events (in SF or here on campus) for the big and growing SF Climate Week APR 19-27. Is your group planning something? Let BCCN add you to the roster and help spread the word
6. IRLE Announces Climate & Society Center at Berkeley
The Institute for Research on Labor and Employment has launched the Climate and Society Center (CSC), a new initiative aimed at accelerating California’s equitable transition to renewable energy and zero-carbon emissions through rigorous research and community collaboration. The new Center, supported by a generous endowment gift, will address a crucial need for scientific analysis in environmental justice advocacy, providing the data and insights necessary for developing effective and equitable climate policies. 
7. Climate Journalism on Screen at BAMPFA FEB 2-23
Climate Journalism on Screen (FEB 2–23) is an upcoming film series that BAMPFA put together with the Graduate School of Journalism’s Jason Spingarn-Koff and Jennifer Redfearn. Four weekend screenings, all accompanied by a post-screening discussion, some with the filmmakers and some with Berkeley faculty and researchers.
8. Two Spring Courses: Clean Energy Campus and Personal Climate Resilience
Still time to enroll in this new DeCal course on the BCEC offered through Energy and Resources Group. And Check out the huge BCEC project that will remake our campus!. And/or…this new UC-wide course “Personal and Community Resilience in the Changing Climate” -- Transforming Climate Distress to Action.” 
9. New Berkeley Labor Center Report on Contra Costa Just Transition
Refining Transition: A Just Transition Economic Development Framework For Contra Costa County, California analyzes the challenges and opportunities facing Contra Costa as changes in the refinery industry unfold. The report offers a framework for economic development planning that can help policymakers navigate the transition in a way that meets the needs of refinery workers and frontline communities. Bravo! (What if we had led with this nationally 20 years ago?)
10. Our Sturdy Golden Bearentrepreneurs
We welcome Bakar Climate Lab’s first full-time hire, the fabulous Shilpi Kumar, new Director of Partnerships. Time to apply for SkyDeck’s Batch 20 ($200K, 500+ mentor network and Demo Day to hundreds of investors). Cleantech to Market at Haas is now open for applications to its 17th year of accelerating climate/energy tech. Watch for the relaunch of CITRIS Foundry (deep tech). Finally, apply (today!) for the Bakar Ignite Scholars Program for the Spring Semester. 
11. Mayfield AI Garage Launches at Berkeley JAN 30
Berkeley SkyDeck announces Mayfield AI Garage at Berkeley, a new initiative that aligns venture capital with public education to empower Berkeley student entrepreneurs driving AI innovation. Mayfield, SkyDeck, and the Berkeley CDSS will provide great resources to undergrads and graduate students ideating and working on AI projects. Apply to win $$$, SkyDeck support, mentorships and more
12. California-China Climate Institute 2025 Fellowships
CCCI is accepting apps for Summer 2025 Field Work Grants until MAR 7. Small travel and independent field research grants for Berkeley students (undergrad or grad) for thesis, pre-dissertation, or dissertation projects relating to China and/or U.S. (national and subnational) climate, environmental, and energy policy. Up to $7,000 to support international work and up to $5,500 for US-based travel and research. 
13. Money is Out There: Largest CA Ggrant Ever for One Region’s Climate Adaptation
Twenty-one partners for sea level rise, wildfire, biodiversity and more for the Santa Cruz-Monterey region. Read all about it in the Knee Deep Times. For more on money, see the DRAFT proposed CA climate budget for 2025-26.
14. Matched Materials and Plastics 
BCCN now provides “connecting services” to selected SkyDeck startups. Here’s a request from Matched Materials. Can you help? "Matched Materials is working to end our addiction to petrochemical plastics using machine learning. We are currently gathering as much information as possible about the market. If you work in packaging, labware procurement, or plastics and bioplastics generally, please reach out to info@matchedmaterials.com
15. Applications NOW for the 2025 Art Rosenfeld Award for Energy Efficiency
$10,000 to a current Berkeley grad student who is committed to research on energy efficiency. Apps are due FEB 14th. All info here.
16. Berkeley Students Get First-Ever Photograph of CA Mammal
The only known CA mammal without a photograph - the Mount Lyell Shrew - has been captured in pixels for the first time EVER after a well-planned expedition mounted by 2 Berkeley students. See how Vishal Subramanyan and Prakrit Jain did it. 
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