Protection still takes a back seat to Economic Growth is when the Coronavirus Crisis began. Early this year, much of the world went into lockdown. Factory production is stalled, ships, remains docked, craft with rounded, imports and exports shrank. Finally, nature could take a breather. According to one study in the 1st half of this year, Carbon Dioxide emissions sank almost 9 percent. Thats around 1500000000. 00 times. The pandemic has offered us a chance to rethink Global Economics to put climate protection above profit. So father, theres been little sign of any real change of fridays for future demonstration in shanghai at the end of september, just for young people have dared to turn up the 17 year old, organize the protest. She wants to see political action. China is the worlds biggest c o 2 producer all the gold mines during the biggest crime in Human History on we believe that the medias crime actively sought to destroy only way to deal with the current crisis. Always only been
Primarily focus on the coronavirus and what another round of stimulation such could look like. This is about one hour. All right. Good afternoon. Thank you for joining us. My name is cliff johnson, the general manager here at bloomberg government. I am actually delighted to welcome you to a 2020 springhill watch event. Hopefully by now youve all the chance to take a look at the newest addition of rock biannual hell watch report that explores what to watch on capitol hill across more than 20 different policy areas and, of course, this report also examines the effect of covid19, the need for related relief legislation as was both parties agendas and plans for 2020. Today were incredibly excited to build upon of a reporting ts expert analysis through conversation with a key lawmaker that is senator john thune of south dakota who was shared with us today discuss the current state of affairs. You can participate in todays discussion on social media by using the hashtag bgov want to be sure
, and that is senator john thune of south dakota, who is here with us today to discuss the current state of affairs. You can participate in todays discussion on social media by using the hashtag bgovwatch to be sure to follow bgov on twitter. I do have a couple of housekeeping announcements just to get us to todays presentation. This is broadcast live and although we dont anticipate any technical issues, should you experience any streaming delays with audio, may be video quality, go ahead and refresh your browser. That should resolve the issue. This is also an interactive event. We want you to be a part of this conversation. Well have live calls going on and we look forward to you , submitting questions he would like to ask. Now, to ask a question, you will see a q a box to the lower righthand corner of your screen. Go ahead and type in your request and it will pop up in front of us. At the top right of your screen , you will see another box that says slides and polish. Polling. This i
Renters from access to legal help, more will be able to stay in their homes and avoid unfair eviction. Today we will hear initial data from the programs supplementation. And the story that these numbers tell is clear, providing tenants with an attorney stops unfair displacement and gives San Francisco residents a fighting chance when facing eviction. In the last six months alone, over 700 tenants households have avoided eviction thanks to this program. The data supports the theory behind prop f. Since implementing the right to counsel, evictions have decreased overall with a 10 drop from 2018 to 2019. Of the tenants receiving fullscope legal representation, 67 achieved a successful outcome of being able to stay in their homes. This program stops evictions and prevents homelessness. The Mayors Office of housing is here and will provide a broader overview of the data in their presentation shortly. But i just want to highlight a few important points at the out set. First, as predicted, ev
Of the right of way. So to take it a little bit further, once they accept, once public works accepts these as public rights of way, the assessment of 4,000 will go away . Not quite. Its a twostep process. But in essence you are correct. The first step would be for the city to accept these parcels from ocii but in doing so, they would still remain a private parcel in public ownership. D. P. W. Would have to take the second step and incorporate, merge these two lots into the right of way. And at that point, what you said is true, it would no longer be subject to the assessment. Do we know how long that process takes and whether public works has that on their list of things to do . Weve had discussions with public works. It is my belief that the first they are aware of this fact, and second it is my belief they plan to incorporate this into the right of way once accepted. There is a little bit of a technical issue, because streets and sidewalks have to be have to meet certain specificatio