Flipping business fleets to zero emission

Green Transportation Summit & Expo

Jonathan Lee

December 3, 2024

We caught glimpses of the future of clean and green transportation during the 13th annual Green Transportation Summit & Expo — a gathering of hundreds of business leaders, policymakers, innovators, representatives from the EPA and US Department of Energy, and many of us interested in more and better medium- and heavy-duty vehicles.

The expo’s most prominent stars were the various zero-emission vehicles on display and ready for hands-on demonstrations. Check out this gallery of photos below:

Climate Solutions and the Breaking Barriers Collaborative (BBC) were featured prominently at the Green Transportation Summit & Expo (GTSE) earlier this year. Emily Pinckney — our Breaking Barriers Collaborative Program Manager — gave a deeply insightful presentation on the environmental justice implications of cutting diesel pollution in communities of color. Climate Solutions’ Washington Deputy Policy Director Leah Missik moderated a panel discussion about decarbonizing freight transportation and presented about Washington’s Climate Commitment Act (which was affirmed by Washington voters who rejected Initiative 2117 at the ballot box). Finally, the BBC team was joined by consultants from the Electrification Coalition and Resource Innovation for a mini-Accelerator, designed to give attendees a taste of the immersive, cohort-based curriculum offered by the Breaking Barriers Collaborative’s Fleet Decarbonization Accelerator program.

The Breaking Barriers Collaborative’s Fleet Decarbonization Accelerator is a hands-on, cohort-based program that equips organizations with the knowledge, tools, and networks to adopt zero-emission fleet vehicles.

Enrollment is now open for the Winter 2025 Accelerator! Learn more and enroll today to participate in the 12-week series, which will run from the week of January 13th to the week of April 7th, 2025.

Author Bio

Jonathan Lee

Storytelling and Digital Engagement Manager, Climate Solutions

Jonathan Toshio Lee (pronouns: he/him) is passionate about sharing people- and solutions-centric stories that educate and inspire positive change. He has over twelve years of experience developing communications strategies, creating multimedia content, advocating for sound public policy, and promoting equity, diversity, and social justice.

Born and raised in Honolulu, Hawaiʻi, the importance of protecting the environment was instilled in him at a young age. Jonathan heeded the call to address the climate crisis as a teenager after watching Al Gore's documentary An Inconvenient Truth (2006), after which he sought to reduce his own climate pollution, wrote to his elected officials to support climate policy and pollution reduction, and began to volunteer in the conservation movement. Jonathan is a graduate of Willamette University with a degree in sociology and ethnic studies, which helped equip him to analyze the numerous intersections of climate, environmental justice, and public discourse.

Before joining the Climate Solutions team in 2019, Jonathan worked in the crime victims' services field and served as a board member and volunteer with OPAL Environmental Justice Oregon.