California moves as Trump threatens global climate change in Brazil

About 200 nations are gathering this week in Belém, Brazil, to kick off the United Nations Climate Action Summit, but there is one thing that is clear: The Trump administration is not sending any top officials.

California hopes it can fill the gap. The state, as it often does, to send a large delegation to the organization of parties, including the residence of the Gov of the Gov.

The state aims to build on its reputation as a global climate leader, sharing its knowledge of clean energy technologies and creating job opportunities and showing its CLIMINATIONSALI record with other countries and regions.

Newloom, who is running for president in 2028, told The Times that “he clearly sees California as a representative of this year’s movement, which is a major global area for countries that will strengthen greenhouse gases.

“California has a responsibility, but also a unique opportunity at this time, to remind the world that we remember these problems, and that there is an opportunity here to strengthen the youth,” said the governor.

California’s strong presence in Cop also marks the escalation of Newloom’s ongoing battle with President Trump. The two are married to immigration and climate, and the power of the president and the environmental agenda often directed at the state. The Trump administration this year is canceling funding for major clean energy projects like California’s hydrogen hub and moving to repeal the state’s long-standing authority to set stricter vehicle emissions standards than the federal government.

But this year from November 10-21 the Gathering comes again at a critical moment in the world. It is the 10th anniversary of the Paris Agreement, an English agreement signed in 2015 in which the leaders of the country established the objective of reducing the limit of global warming, and possibly below 2.7 degrees, to protect the worst effects of climate change.

Many experts and scientists agree that the 2.7 degree Target is no longer achievable. For the past 10 years they have been warming the world, driven largely by greenhouse gas emissions from the burning of fossil fuels.

“One thing is already clear: We cannot contain global warming below 1.5 degrees [C] In the next few years, “said Secretary -li Jittery António Guntrers at the recent meeting of the world meteorological organization.” Overshooting is now unavoidable. ”

The UN’s annual gap report released in conjunction with the summit finds that without swift and aggressive action, the world is on track to warm between 4.14 and 5.04 degrees) this century.

Yet Trump withdrew from the Paris Agreement on his first day back in office, a move he made during his first term as President. At a high level meeting in January he pointed out that the Paris agreement and other global climate agreements put an unfair burden on the US and Steer American Dollars in other countries.

The withdrawal of the US from the Paris agreement is expected to add an additional 0.18 degrees to the latest forecast of warming, actually making a small gain from last year, the UN report said. It notes that every fraction of a degree of warming means more human and environmental losses, higher adaptation costs, and more reliance on uncertain strategies to remove carbon from the atmosphere.

However, this report emphasizes that the technology to bring a big cut to the limitation of output, pointing to the development of wind and solar energy, most of which is happening overseas.

It is a sector where California can lead, NewAm, adding that the Trump administration is “doubly stupid” by stealing so much land from China. The Golden State has invested heavily in renewables, battery energy storage and electricity for buildings and cars. California is also planning and shouldering the emerging decarboniziaton and reducing its greenhouse gas emissions by 21% since 2000 while its economy has grown by 81%.

“We want to continue to throw the scale, and this is about economic growth, this is about jobs, and this is about dealing with other problems of our time: The availability of money,” said NewsOm. “When you talk about energy efficiency, you talk about money supply. When you talk about wind and solar, you talk about abundance and you talk about money supply.”

California has already helped spread many original technologies. Aggressive federal laws were a key factor in driving automakers toward electric vehicles, with Toyota developing its Prius for the California market. The state was the first to strengthen battery energy storage with large services, helping to jump in the current battery market, while cap-and-trade The Carbon Market system has been replicated in places around the world.

The country’s leaders hope to highlight more than their progress at home. In recent years, California has also formed strategic agreements and partnerships with other states and countries on issues such as the delivery of clean transportation, cutting pollution and building hydrogen and renewables. Newloom is expected to sign more agreements through the COP this year, although his party declined to give an idea of ​​what they would include.

In the middle of the Kingdom a number of existing agreements are a memorandum with the Baja California Energy Commission focusing on clean ports, zero-emission transmission and grid reliability; And a memorandum with several provinces in China on reducing pollution and offshore wind power. The California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection also has partnerships with many states that share resources and best practices for managing vegetation and fighting wildfires.

Focusing on these actions at the State and Regional Level has become an important part of the police conferences as the discussion of the discussion is gaining urgency, according to Rachel Cleetus, said the director of senior policy at the non-profit Association of concerned scientists.

“There is another face of the United States – we have many illegal players, including states that are aligned with businesses and forward-looking businesses, who will be entrepreneurs in our country, and the interest of the climate,” said Cleetus.

California’s delegation to Brazil includes Secretary of the Environment Wade Wade Crowfoot, who represented the state at local leaders’ meetings in Rio de Janeiro this week.

“This year, our federal government has been completely lost in action … and the rest of the world needs to understand that America is still on the fence, and we’re moving forward,” Crowfoot said at the briefing.

Crowfoot is banned by the Carbon Market Carbon cooperation and Quebec and one with Denmark that has led the technology to monitor groundwater that Californians use today, among other examples of international efforts.

This year’s conference of the police, which took place near the Amazon River Delta in northern Brazil, focused mainly on the restoration of forests and nature-based solutions to preserve them in a 30×30 percent plan to include 30% by 2030, said Crowfoot. The golden state already has deep ties to the region from its landmark 2019 Tropical Forest State Program, which sets guidelines for carbon credits awarded to reduce deforestation.

NewsOM said in a statement, it will highlight climate action as the defining economic opportunity of the 21st century. He has been tapped to speak at the Syngossen Investments Global Investors’ Symposium, a gathering of leading investors and business executives, about how California is showing how clean investment creates jobs and profits. Green jobs now outnumber fossil fuel jobs in the state, 7 to 1.

“We weren’t just talking about this from the point of view of trying to be good citizens,” Newsyom said. “We are also trying to compete with geopolitical players. We want to dominate the next big industry.”

However, there is much work to be done.

Every five years, parties to the Paris Agreement are required to submit their greenhouse gas emissions targets. The targets so far ‘have not hit the needle,” according to the UN report, and those given this year are not nearly aggressive enough.

“It hurts to see that now we will break the 1.5 cnchmark,” said Cleetus, of the Union of concerned scientists.

“But the world leaders had the power to significantly cut these emissions,” he said.