Regional Events
The LARC calendar includes climate conferences, meetings, and trainings relevant to the county of Los Angeles and California.
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Featured Events
Wildfire Defense in Practice: Building and Landscape Strategies
Host: USGBC-CA
Description: Join USGBC California for a 90-minute virtual technical workshop designed primarily for contractors, builders, architects, designers, landscape professionals, and trade workers. Residents and community leaders seeking a more technical understanding of wildfire resilience are also welcome. No prior Wildfire Defense coursework is required. Bring your questions and an interest in creating safer, more resilient homes and communities.
Learn more and register here.
The Carbon Wave: A Conversation with Professor Leah C. Stokes
Host: UCLA Luskin Center for Innovation
Description: Join Leah C. Stokes in the wake of election week for a book talk and a chance to hear directly from one of today's leading voices on climate politics. Renowned as both a political scientist and a storyteller, Leah C. Stokes will discuss her new book, The Carbon Wave: A Story of Democracy, Parenthood, and the Race to Protect Our Planet, which follows three new parents on the unlikely path to passing the largest climate investment in U.S. history. Join us for this timely conversation about climate policy, civic engagement, and the personal stakes of environmental action.
Register here.
LA Infrastructure Forum 2026
Host: Engineering News-Record (ENR) in association with NFRA Structure LA
Description: ENR and NFRA Structure LA bring together leaders from LA Metro, LA County Public Works, LA World Airports, LADWP, the Ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach, and other major agencies with the firms helping deliver Southern California’s critical infrastructure programs.
Attend this form to connect with leaders, gain visibility, build partnerships and learn how agencies & industry teams are approaching funding, delivery and regional collaboration.
Register here.
Where We Built, How We Rebuild: Land Use in a Fire-Prone California
Host: UCLA Sustainable LA Grand Challenge (SLAGC)
Description: How did California come to build where it did, and what should we do now that so many communities face greatly increased wildfire risk? Join SLAGC’s webinar to hear from panelists spanning law, urban planning, land use, post-fire rebuilding, and community resilience as they examine these questions from the federal level to the neighborhood.
Learn more here.
Register here.
iCA Summit 2026 - iMasons Climate Accord
Host: iMasons Climate Accord
Description: This three-day gathering brings together leading engineers, policymakers, and industry pioneers to tackle the massive carbon footprint of modern data centers and cloud networks.
Set against the backdrop of a rapidly expanding digital economy, the conference addresses the urgent need to align technological growth with aggressive climate targets.
Register here email larc@ioes.ucla.edu for a 50% off discount code.
CoMotion LA: Cities on the Move
Join CoMotion LA ‘26 with a special OMF Summit Track on Nov. 18-19.
Connect with the companies building tomorrow’s transportation, the investors backing them, and the city leaders making it happen.
Two days of stellar programming, engaging panels, workshops, demos, networking, energizing talks and after-hours gatherings.
Register here.
December 2026 LARC Network Meeting
The December 2026 LARC Network meeting for climate leaders and practitioners in the Los Angeles region to share best practices, current projects, and opportunities for collaboration. Occurs bimonthly.
For more information about the discussion topic for each meeting, visit www.laregionalcollaborative.com/larc-network-meetings
Register here.
February 2027 LARC Network Meeting
The February 2027 LARC Network meeting for climate leaders and practitioners in the Los Angeles region to share best practices, current projects, and opportunities for collaboration. LARC Network Meetings occur bimonthly on the second Thursday, 10-11:30am. Learn more about the discussion topic for each meeting.
Register here.
April 2027 LARC Network Meeting
The April 2027 LARC Network meeting for climate leaders and practitioners in the Los Angeles region to share best practices, current projects, and opportunities for collaboration. LARC Network Meetings occur bimonthly on the second Thursday, 10-11:30am. Learn more about the discussion topic for each meeting.
Register here.
June 2027 LARC Network Meeting
The June 2027 LARC Network meeting for climate leaders and practitioners in the Los Angeles region to share best practices, current projects, and opportunities for collaboration. LARC Network Meetings occur bimonthly on the second Thursday, 10-11:30am. Learn more about the discussion topic for each meeting.
Register here.
September 2027 LARC Network Meeting
The September 2027 LARC Network meeting for climate leaders and practitioners in the Los Angeles region to share best practices, current projects, and opportunities for collaboration. Occurs bimonthly.
For more information about the discussion topic for each meeting, visit www.laregionalcollaborative.com/larc-network-meetings
Register here.
October 2027 LARC Network Meeting
The October 2027 LARC Network meeting for climate leaders and practitioners in the Los Angeles region to share best practices, current projects, and opportunities for collaboration. Occurs bimonthly.
For more information about the discussion topic for each meeting, visit www.laregionalcollaborative.com/larc-network-meetings
Register here.
December 2027 LARC Network Meeting
The December 2027 LARC Network meeting for climate leaders and practitioners in the Los Angeles region to share best practices, current projects, and opportunities for collaboration. Occurs bimonthly.
For more information about the discussion topic for each meeting, visit www.laregionalcollaborative.com/larc-network-meetings
Register here.
Climate Change Hates Mothers
Host: Center for the Study of Women l Streisand Center
Description: This talk addresses how Climate change poses unique challenges to the health, well-being, and everyday lives of pregnant people, mothers, and those who would like to have children. It highlights how birth workers, community organizers, and local elected officials are mobilizing to address maternal marginalization and seek policy.
RSVP here.
Halloweenie Climatini 2026
Host: 319Climate, The Climate Registry, and Climate Resolve
Description: 319Climate, The Climate Registry, and Climate Resolve look forward to you joining their spooky-fun casual climate mixer and networking night for SoCal-based professionals conjuring up an equitable, resilient climate transition. Come sip, mingle, and share ideas that cast a lasting spell for change.
RSVP here.
The Snail Darter and the Politics of Taxonomy
Host: UCLA Institute of Environment and Sustainability (IoES), lecture presented by Yale Professor Thomas Near
Description: UCLA IoES invites you to join Yale University’s Professor Thomas Near’s presentation to learn about the hidden tensions between principled motivations to protect biodiversity, scientific accuracy, and the practical demands of conservation law. Focusing on the Snail Darter, one of the first and best-known examples of the “conservation species concept”, Professor Near’s talk will also trace how taxonomy, the naming and classification of species, is entangled with law, policy, and politics.
Register here.
Power Up Palisades Education Session
Host: Resilient Palisades
Description: Join the Resilient Palisades "Power Up Palisades" team in learning more about building back solar. This session focuses on the functions of a subpanel and a meter collar.
Register here.
Toolbox Tuesday: 21st Century ROAD to Housing Act
Host: SCAG
Description: Join SCAG for a Toolbox Tuesday session on Oct. 27 featuring a comprehensive overview of the 21st Century ROAD to Housing Act, landmark federal housing legislation that became law on July 11.
SCAG’s federal lobbyist, Leslie Pollner, will explain the bill’s main points, including changes to housing, transportation, infrastructure, and land use policies to support new housing development and reduce barriers to construction. Pollner will also discuss what the law could mean for local and regional governments and how it might influence future federal housing and transportation policies.
Register here.
Navigating the Intersections of Flood Risk, Insurance, and El Nino
Host: San Diego Regional Climate Collaborative
Description: This webinar will highlight flood risks, its impact on the San Diego region, and how we can leverage insurance solutions to build community and statewide climate resilience to disaster events. Webinar speakers will include experts from Insurance for Good and Scripps Institution of Oceanography. Presentations will provide an overview of increasing flood risks in California and the San Diego landscape and how this risk intersects with insurance, and the pending impacts of El Nino and the value of preparing for flood risk early. Additionally, speakers will highlight key takeaways from the latest report “Strengthening Incentives for Flood Risk Reduction in Catastrophe Modeling and Insurance: Recommendations for California Coastal Counties” developed in partnership by the California Ocean Science Trust, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, and the California Department of Insurance.
Register here.
The Dark Frontier: Book Talk
Host: Burbank Public Library
Description: Marine microbiologist and explorer Jeffrey Marlow takes readers on a fascinating journey into the deep sea in The Dark Frontier, exploring one of Earth’s last largely unexplored frontiers. Marlow reveals the remarkable life and ecosystems found in extreme environments, from hydrothermal vents and methane seeps to whale falls, while examining theories about the deep sea’s role in the origins of life. He also explores the growing tensions between ocean exploration and exploitation, including deep-sea mining and the challenges of protecting the high seas. Through stories from scientists, conservationists, and other experts, Marlow offers an accessible look at the wonders of the deep sea and what they can teach us about our planet’s future.
Copies of The Dark Frontier and Alien Oceans will be available at this event, and the authors will be available to sign.
Register here.
Pali Veg Fest
Host: Resilient Palisades
Description: Join Resilient Palisades on Sunday, October 25, from 11 AM to 2 PM at the Palisades Village Green for an afternoon of vegan food, free face painting, pumpkin decorating, trick-or-treating, live music, costumes, children’s activities, environmental education, rebuilding resources, and time together as a community.
RSVP here.
Power Up Palisades Education Session
Host: Resilient Palisades
Description: Join the Resilient Palisades "Power Up Palisades" team in learning more about building back solar. This session focuses on the maintenance of solar panels and batteries.
Register and see future meetings here.
EPIC 5 Investment Plan Workshop
Host: California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC)
Description: The purpose of this workshop is to provide an opportunity for the EPIC Administrators to present their EPIC 5 Investment Plans and discuss how their proposed Strategic Initiatives, associated Research Topic Areas (RTAs), and proposed budgets in those plans achieve the Strategic Objectives approved by the CPUC in D.26-02-037. Participants will be able to ask questions and provide feedback on proposed EPIC investment portfolios. Interested parties are encouraged to participate in all three days or may attend the day or days addressing the Strategic Objectives most relevant to their interests.
Register here. Learn more about the workshop here.
ET Summit 2026
Host: Energy Transition Coordinating Council
Description: The ET Summit is the ETCC’s premier event for industry stakeholders in the utility customer technologies sector. At this 2-day conference, be ready to connect with entrepreneurs, technologists, policy makers, utilities, and other colleagues while we gather to accelerate the transition, together.
Register here.
Resilient California Summit
The inaugural Resilient California Summit, taking place October 20-22, 2026, at the SAFE Credit Union Convention Center in Sacramento, will convene people from across the state to make progress on the policies, partnerships, and practices needed to build resilience as climate change accelerates.
The 2026 La Kretz Center for California Conservation Science Public Lecture: Conserving California's Coastal Waters
Host: UCLA La Kretz Center for California Conservation Science
Description: Join us for a public discussion of recent advances in ocean conservation and a chance to interact with current UCLA conservation researchers. The UCLA La Kretz Center for California Conservation Science is thrilled to host our 15th Annual La Kretz Center Public Lecture on Sunday October 18th, 2026 on the UCLA main campus. This year we’ll explore both policy and technological solutions that are shaping marine conservation in the state. The Center is honored to have two Bruin alums, the father/son team Zack and Mark Gold, speak about their work monitoring and protecting California marine ecosystems.
Register here.
Circular SoCal 2026
Host: USGBC California
Description: Circular SoCal brings together leaders across design, manufacturing, development, government, utilities, industry, and community organizations to accelerate a more regenerative built environment in Southern California. Through expert conversations and collaboration, the event explores how circular economy principles can move from aspiration to action across materials, buildings, infrastructure, and policy.
Register here.
Power Up Palisades Education Session
Host: Resilient Palisades
Description: Join the Resilient Palisades "Power Up Palisades" team in learning more about building back solar. This session focuses on warranties.
Register and see future meetings here.
Book Talk: How to Control a Burning Continent
Hosts: UCLA Sustainable LA Grand Challenge, the Institute of the Environment & Sustainability, and the Department of Anthropology
Description: You are invited to a conversation with Dr. Timothy Neale, author of How to Control Fire on a Burning Continent. In this new book, Dr. Neale offers an ethnographic look at wildfire management in Australia, showing how institutional fire agencies increasingly rely on technical control and militarization as they respond to ever-larger fires. Drawing on conversations with fire professionals and Indigenous land stewards, he links today's fire crises to ongoing colonization and argues for moving beyond the logic of control toward learning to live with a flammable world.
Register here.
California's Fifth Climate Change Assessment Webinar Series: Tribal and Indigenous Communities
Host: California's Fifth Climate Change Assessment
Description: During these webinars, each author team will summarize key findings from their report and highlight opportunities to build adaptation capacity and resilience to climate impacts in ways that can inform state and local planning, policy, and action, vulnerability assessments, adaptation planning, and community resilience efforts. The Statewide Topical Reports highlight issues of statewide significance and how the impacts and risks of climate change affect human and natural systems.
Register here.
California Economic Summit
Host: CA FWD
Description: The California Economic Summit is a convening of regional and statewide leaders from business, community, government, philanthropy, labor, and more to catalyze a New California Economy. CA FWD’s focus this year has been supporting leading gubernatorial candidates and legislators to help them deliver positive change from day one. This year’s Summit focuses directly on this work—whether through breakout sessions or plenaries, Summit attendees will have the opportunity to help shape this critical candidate education and help ensure a resilient, sustainable, and inclusive economy.
Register here.
Learn more here.
SGV Clean Air and Water Fair
Host: ActiveSGV
Description: The SGV Clean Air & Water Fair will bring together community members and local organizations for a day focused on clean air and water, climate resilience, and community action in the San Gabriel Valley. The fair will feature informational booths where local organizations will share resources focused on creating more sustainable communities, a Crop Swap, and family-friendly games and activities.
Register here.
October 2026 Network Meeting
Presentations: Powering Equity Report
Speakers:
• Aurea Cunanan, Physicians for Social Responsibility LA
• Wendy Miranda Arevalo, Esperanza Community Housing
Net Zero Conference
The Net Zero Conference convenes climate leaders to collaborate on global solutions for change in the built environment. The event is a hub for people in our industry to gather, bridge knowledge gaps, and inspire a net zero future.
Register here.
10-Year Anniversary Symposium | Pritzker Emerging Environmental Genius Award
Host: UCLA’s Institute of the Environment and Sustainability
Description: Join UCLA’s Institute of the Environment and Sustainability for a public symposium marking the 10th anniversary of the Pritzker Emerging Environmental Genius Award. The Symposium brings together past Pritzker Award winners and finalists, UCLA faculty, students, and cross-sector partners for substantive dialogue on the defining environmental challenges of our time.
Register here.
California's Fifth Climate Change Assessment Webinar Series: Climate-Induced Human Displacement and Migration
Host: California's Fifth Climate Change Assessment
Description: During these webinars, each author team will summarize key findings from their report and highlight opportunities to build adaptation capacity and resilience to climate impacts in ways that can inform state and local planning, policy, and action, vulnerability assessments, adaptation planning, and community resilience efforts. The Statewide Topical Reports highlight issues of statewide significance and how the impacts and risks of climate change affect human and natural systems.
Register here.
California's Fifth Climate Change Assessment Webinar Series: Racial Equity and Climate Justice
Host: California's Fifth Climate Change Assessment
Description: During these webinars, each author team will summarize key findings from their report and highlight opportunities to build adaptation capacity and resilience to climate impacts in ways that can inform state and local planning, policy, and action, vulnerability assessments, adaptation planning, and community resilience efforts. The Statewide Topical Reports highlight issues of statewide significance and how the impacts and risks of climate change affect human and natural systems.
Register here.
Grounding in Science to Facilitate Collaborative Momentum for California Webinar
Host: ARCCA
Description: This webinar will discuss and celebrate the upcoming release of the California Fifth Climate Change Assessment Report. The webinar will feature a presentation overviewing the Assessment itself, provide details on what to expect, and how to sustain momentum. The release of the California Fifth Climate Change Assessment comes at a time where strengthening our understanding of the science as well as how to navigate potential climate impacts is needed more than ever. The webinar will feature an opportunity for participants to engage and discuss the ways in which the report as well as the accompanying nine regional reports will be utilized to scale, climate adaptation, and resilience efforts across their region.
Register here.
Climate Resilience Community Roundtable #5 (In-Person)
Join Rising Communities for a series of FREE Climate Resilience Community Roundtables designed to bring together residents, community organizations, government agencies, and other local stakeholders to discuss environmental challenges and identify community-driven solutions that will help guide future climate resilience investments throughout the Baldwin Hills Urban Watershed.
Each roundtable provides an opportunity to share your experiences, identify neighborhood priorities, and help shape future projects that build healthier, safer, and more climate-resilient communities. Whether you attend one session or all five, every conversation will strengthen the overall community vision. We encourage participants to attend the roundtable closest to where they live, work, recreate, or spend time so discussions reflect local priorities.
Available at Virtual Convenings: Spanish interpretation and FREE giveaways
Available at In-Person Convenings: Spanish interpretation, FREE giveaways, childcare for children ages 3-12, and refreshments
Register at: bit.ly/crcr2026
For questions, please email: jchavez-cardenas@risingcommunities.org.
Beyond Low-Flow: Making Water Efficiency Irresistible
Hosts: USGBC-CA and the 50L Home Coalition
Description: Join USGBC California and the 50L Home Coalition for a practical discussion of the final findings from the 50L Home Los Angeles Pilot, a multi-year effort testing how high-efficiency fixtures, appliances, products, technology, and behavioral strategies work together in real homes.
Register here.
California's Fifth Climate Change Assessment Webinar Series: Climate Impacts to the Economy
Host: California's Fifth Climate Change Assessment
Description: During these webinars, each author team will summarize key findings from their report and highlight opportunities to build adaptation capacity and resilience to climate impacts in ways that can inform state and local planning, policy, and action, vulnerability assessments, adaptation planning, and community resilience efforts. The Statewide Topical Reports highlight issues of statewide significance and how the impacts and risks of climate change affect human and natural systems.
Register here.
Large Building Electrification: Strategies for Commercial Retrofits
Host: USGBC-CA
Description: Join USGBC California for a practical discussion on electrifying large commercial building systems, featuring perspectives from an engineering firm, a sustainability advisor, and a leading HVAC manufacturer. Together, the panel will explore today's market-ready technologies, the realities of retrofitting existing buildings, and the key considerations for planning successful projects.
Register here.
LABC’s Sustainability Summit
Host: The Los Angeles Business Council
Description: A high-level convening of business, government and nonprofit leaders transitioning to a dynamic, clean energy economy.
Register here.