The Other Half of Climate: Policy, Capital, and the Race to Scale Superpollutant Solutions

​​Methane and other superpollutants are responsible for nearly half of today’s net global warming, yet they remain underleveraged in climate finance, carbon markets, and policy frameworks. This event, hosted by UC Berkeley Center for Law, Energy, & the Environment (CLEE), Institute for Governance & Sustainable Development (IGSD), and the Subnational Methane Action Coalition during SF Climate Week 2026, aims to bring together policymakers, investors, technologists, and market builders to examine what it will take to accelerate superpollutant action and to forge the cross-sector connections needed to do it.

​​Agenda:
9:30 AM - 10 AM: Check in, breakfast, informal networking

​10 AM - 11 AM Panel 1: Bridging Policy, Tech, and Finance for the Methane Moment

​​Speakers:

• ​Sarah Rodriguez, Scientific Advisor, Juniper VC

• ​Cliff Rechtschaffen, Board Member, California Air Resources Board (CARB)

• ​Philip Duffy, Chief Scientist, Spark Climate Solutions

• ​Elena Berman, former CTO, Insight M

• ​Moderated by Linnan Cao, Methane Policy Fellow, UC Berkeley CLEE

​​11:10 AM - 12 PM Panel 2: Financing the Superpollutants We Can't Afford to Ignore

​​Speakers:

• ​Manny Garcia, Sr. Technical and Sustainability Program Leader, effecterra

• ​Zerin Osho, Director, India Program, IGSD

• ​Randy Spock, Carbon Credits and Removals Lead, Google

• ​Moderated by Sunandini Seth, Program Coordinator, IGSD

​12 PM - 12:30 PM Breakout session on sectoral methane solutions

​12:30 PM - 1 PM: Informal networking

​​We're bringing together the people closest to the problem: frontline policymakers from California and beyond, and leaders from India, operating at the scale and speed the current warming demands. Together they shall share on-ground insights into what is working and what’s standing in our way within the super pollutant space.

​​The event is centered around answering two interlocking questions. First: How do we connect capital and innovation faster? And more urgently, how do we ignite the feedback loop between policy, technology, and capital to scale solutions at the speed the climate demands? 

​​By registering for this event, you agree to share your registration information with the organizers of SF Climate Week.