Environmental Council of Sacramento (ECOS): Climate Change Committee
Tuesday, April 29, 2025, hybrid meeting
6 PM Zoom: Link to join: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/6656164155
To phone in: 669-900-6833, Meeting ID: 665 616 4155
Join us in person! 5:30 PM start (drinks & snacks)
Mogavero Architects – 1331 T St. Sacramento
Marching Toward an Uninsurable Future:
The Failure to Transition from Fossil Fuels and the Insurance Crisis
Guest Speaker: Dave Jones, Director of UC Berkeley’s Climate Risk Initiative
When Dave was California’s Insurance Commissioner (2011 to 2018), he launched the Climate Risk Carbon Initiative – requiring insurers to disclose investments in fossil fuels. Earlier, Dave was a State Assemblymember, and a Sacramento City Councilmember.
We’re paying a lot more for home insurance in the Sacramento region, as insurance companies convince the State that they can’t afford to pay to rebuild homes destroyed by the increased wildfires cause by climate change. And yet our insurance companies have major investments in fossil fuel companies that cause climate change.
Let’s discuss what we can do!
5:30 PM: Social period, with drinks and snacks
6:00 PM: Introductions
6:10 PM: Dave Jones, Failure to Transition from Fossil Fuels and the Insurance Crisis
6:45 PM: Q&A, Discussion
7:15 PM: Updates, Announcements
- LAFCo hearing May 7 on Airport South Industrial project (ECOS opposed)
- ECOS lawsuit vs. Caltrans on Yolo/I-80 expansion (court date later this spring)
- Sacramento County’s Climate Emergency Mobilization Task Force’s recommendations: workshops this summer
- Sierra Club lawsuit vs. Sacramento County’s Climate Action Plan – need to incentivize infill over sprawl.
- City’s lack of staff to implement its climate action plan
- Ballot measure 2026 to help fund transit in Sacramento County
- SMUD’s plan to achieve 2030 carbon zero, and locations of solar farms
- Upper West Side proposed development outside County’s Urban Services Boundary
- Others? Announcements?
If you drive to the meeting, you can park:
- in the Mogavero/Collective parking lot behind the Mogavero Architects office
- next to the ARB building West of Mogavero on 13th or T (no time limits)
- other street parking (has two hour limit)
