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Nancy Skinner
Co-founder, ICLEI-Local Governments for Sustainability
Assemblymember Skinner is an international expert on climate issues. A founder of ICLEI-Local Governments for Sustainability, Skinner led ICLEI's Cities for Climate Protection program in the US and internationally from 1992 to 2004. Her expertise in energy efficiency includes initiating the first citywide energy efficiency retrofit laws and the first municipally owned ESCO (Energy Services Company) while she was a Councilmember in the City of Berkeley during the 1980s.
Prior to the State Assembly, Skinner served as US Director of the London based Climate Group, where she worked with Fortune 500 companies and state, provincial, and national leaders including Britain's Prime Minister Tony Blair and New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg to enact greenhouse gas reduction plans.
Her recently approved Assembly Bill 758, the first statewide program aimed at achieving energy efficiency retrofits for all existing residential and commercial buildings, will move California's leadership on energy efficiency from gold to platinum, and promises to create thousands of new jobs to aid California's economic recovery.