‘We’re still in’: California teams up with Germany to tackle climate change amid US withdrawal…(Lock ‘Em Up Trump!!)

Saturday, June 10, 2017
By Paul Martin

RT.com
10 Jun, 2017

California and Germany will take joint action against climate change, the state’s governor and German environment minister say. The effort comes days after California signed a cooperation deal with China following the US pull-out from the Paris accord.

“We cannot achieve our climate goals without the engagement of local and regional communities. That has become even clearer after the US withdrawal from the Paris climate agreement,” German Environment Minister Barbara Hendricks said on Saturday.

President Donald Trump’s pull-out “underscores the important role that non-state actors, and particularly subnational actors play in achieving the overall objective and goals of the [Paris] Agreement,” reads the joint statement issued after Hendricks and California Governor Jerry Brown met in San Francisco on Friday.

“California and Germany unite the world leaders in the fight against climate change, the existential threat of our time,” Brown said.

In 2015, California along with the German state of Baden-Württemberg formed an intergovernmental panel ‘Under2Coalition’ to gather states and regions willing to curb their emissions. The initiative now spans 175 jurisdictions from 35 countries, intent to limit global warming below 2 degrees Celsius by reducing their emissions.

“The current withdrawal from the Paris Accord by the Washington administration is being overcome and countermanded by people throughout the whole world,” Brown said.

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