Giving Compass' Take:

• On this episode of the Climate One podcast, host Greg Dalton discusses environmental issues and climate disruption with three prominent California gubernatorial candidates: Travis Allen, Gavin Newsom and Antonio Villaraigosa.

• California residents will have a keen interest in the current positions of these candidates, since climate change continues to be a pressing issue, as wildfires, droughts and other natural disasters plague the state. But we all should pay attention to how future leaders address such an enormous problem.

• Can states really deliver on climate promises, though? This article explores.

For fifteen years, California Governors Arnold Schwarzenegger and Jerry Brown charted a steady bipartisan course as climate leaders. Their combined legacies include reduced carbon emissions, a clean energy economy and forward-thinking electric transportation. During that time, the effects of climate disruption — rising seas, shrinking aquifers, wildfires and drought — have become increasingly clear. Greg Dalton sits down with three of the leading gubernatorial candidates to ask them how they plan to take on California’s biggest environmental challenge.

Listen to the podcast with the California gubernatorial candidates talking climate change from Climate One.