Meg Mills-Novoa has joined the Energy and Resources Group as part of a group of new faculty members recruited through Rausser College’s Climate Equity and Environmental Justice cluster initiative to further climate justice research.

UC Berkeley scientist Patrick Gonzalez has been appointed by the White House as an assistant director for climate and biodiversity. Gonzalez will work to help execute the climate plans declared by President Biden, like the “30 by 30” conservation goal and net zero emissions by 2050.

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ERG PhD student Gauthami Penakalapati was spotlighted by the Facebook Fellowship program for her research, which draws upon gender and feminist theory with the goal of empowering women and young girls in rural India. Her work reveals how colonialism has historically shaped public health data, in turn contributing to a lack of gender equity.

Dan Kammen and co-authors argue in the journal Science that a major transformation is needed to meet the needs of Africa’s growing population.

ERG alumnus Frank Errickson recently published research on Nature, “Animal-based foods have high social and climate costs”, quantifying the climate costs of animal-based agricultural greenhouse gas emissions at a regional level.

ERG alumna Laura Moreno was recently featured on the California Magazine for her research on understanding food waste in the United States.

ERG assistant professor David Anthoff and alumnus Frank Errickson recently published a report on Nature finding that “by accounting for economic inequalities between countries and regions, the social cost of methane drops by almost a factor of 10 in sub-Saharan Africa and jumps by almost a factor of 10 for industrialized countries, such as the United States.”

Congratulations to ERG Master’s student Jess Kersey and PhD student Annelise Gill-Wiehl for receiving the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship (GRFP).

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