Environment

Live From Copenhagen: Calif. Team To Host Discussion

By Alison St John / Reporter

Published December 15, 2009 at 3:00 AM PST

This story was published more than 14 years ago.

California’s Climate Team will hold a live video conference from the UN Summit in Copenhagen to respond directly to questions from San Diegans.

The forum will be screened live this Thursday at the University of San Diego.

California's Secretaries of the Environment, Agriculture and Natural Resources, as well as the Chair of the Air Resources Board, will talk about their experience of the conference and what it might mean for Californians.

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Carl Nettleton of Open Oceans Global, who is in Copenhagen will be the moderator.

"Our focus is to say, 'how is what’s happening here going to impact San Diegans?'" Nettleton said, "Is it going to mean there will be more impacts on our lifestyle, will there be more opportunities for developing new solutions to address climate change? Those are the sorts of things that will come out of this discussion."

The panel will cover issues such as emmisions targets and cap and trade policies.

The forum may be the only live, interactive video feed from Copenhagen to a California audience.

The Teleconference will be from 7 a.m. to 9:15 Thursday morning at the Joan Kroc Center at USD.

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Alison St John currently serves as a general assignment reporter and occasionally co-hosts KPBS Midday Edition. She fell in love with KPBS Radio when she arrived in San Diego in 1985 and first heard NPR. She has been a voice on KPBS Radio since 1989, and has served as a news reporter for radio, TV and the web, as well as anchoring, hosting, producing and editing. Alison has reported on stories about North County and was based in the KPBS' North County Bureau. Alison covered the metro beat during the critical period of the San Diego City pension crisis, and the education beat while Alan Bersin was the controversial Superintendent of San Diego City School District. She covered health when the industry was converting to managed care and told welfare reform stories in the late 1990s when Clinton was “ending welfare as we know it.” She has covered land use issues extensively, looking at the challenges of meeting a growing population while preserving community character, and developing a better transportation system to meet environmental concerns. She has done many stories on the military in San Diego, and the series she edited on the challenges veterans face returning from active duty to civilian life won “Best of Show” from the San Diego Society of Professional Journalists. She occasionally hosts the KPBS Roundtable and KPBS Midday Edition. Alison has won awards from the San Diego Press Club, the Society of Professional Journalists, the Associated Press TV and Radio Association, and the California Golden Mike Awards. Alison was born in Tanzania, brought up in Scotland, and earned her degree in psychology and sociology from Durham University in England. Her postgraduate diploma is in student counseling. She worked in England, Nigeria, Switzerland, Belgium, India, and Japan before moving to the United States in 1981. She now lives in Oceanside and enjoys how her community is growing and changing.