Students and faculty members in UCLA School of Law’s Veterans Legal Clinic recently helped several community partners in producing a study that assesses the risks of housing displacement that confronts people who lost their homes in the Eaton Fire, which devastated the region in January 2025.

World diplomats are descending on the Amazonian city of Belém this month for COP30, the annual United Nations climate conference, at a critical juncture in the fight against global warming. Joining them are UCLA researchers with an outsized and powerful presence thanks to the organization they lead called the Governors’ Climate and Forests Task Force.

The GCF Task Force, a unique project that came to UCLA School of Law in 2022, is a subnational alliance of governors from around the world who work together on policies to protect forests.