"I think that message to the rest of the world that the United States is not in this is, well, deeply disappointing", says Abigail McHugh-Grifa, co-leader of the Rochester People's Climate Coalition.
Ma Aimin of China's National Center for Climate Change Strategy and International Cooperation warned that full cooperation between the USA state and the Asian nation will not come easy.
Formed by the governors of California, New York and Washington, the alliance intends to pick up the mantle of leading on climate change initiatives, where the federal government has pulled back.
As for the coal industry, Bruce Stevens, president of the Indiana Coal Council, says ditching the Paris agreement is entirely positive. The states, most led by Democrats, represent $7 trillion of the US gross domestic product, or 38 percent.
Trump last week rejected the Paris climate change agreement, calling it "unfair at the highest level to the United States".
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Prior to the meeting, Governor Brown also told Reuters he planned to discuss the potential for linking California's carbon trading market with China's emerging carbon market.
France will go beyond its initial global commitments to combat climate change following US President Donald Trump's decision to pull out of last year's Paris accord, a government spokesman said on Wednesday (June 7). It came in the immediate aftermath of President Donald Trump's decision to withdraw from the Paris Climate Accords. As reported by the NY Post, Mr. Musk tweeted an article by Scientific American about climate change, and challenged the United States to do at least as much as China in combating global warming. "Well in California we don't agree", Brown said.
Aside from agreeing to enter into more deals to promote green technologies, the California-China connection could foster a lot more trade measures.
The technology companies, which also include Adobe, eBay, Facebook and Spotify, join a number of businesses from other sectors, as well as investors, colleges and universities, U.S. states, cities and counties, to declare their support for climate action to meet the Paris Agreement.
"Together, we can directly contribute to the global agenda of achieving a more resilient and sustainable island Earth", Ige said. The landmark accord's 195 signatories, nearly every country in the world, are required to create national plans to scale back on greenhouse gas emissions.
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