California Leads on Climate Policy … But Also in Greenhouse Gases

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Los Angeles traffic. California produces more greenhouse gas emissions per person than almost anywhere else in the world due partly to its heavy reliance on cars. Creative Commons image by Flickr user

11.30.2015
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By Kate Galbraith, CALMatters/KQED News Fix

When Gov. Jerry Brown arrives in Paris for a major international conference on climate change, he will showcase one of the world’s most sweeping programs to cut greenhouse gas emissions.

California has perhaps the most comprehensive cap-and-trade program in the world, setting a limit and a price for pollution from factories, utilities and transportation fuels. The state’s 2030 goals of getting half of its electricity from renewable sources and reducing greenhouse gas emissions to 40 percent below 1990 levels are also among the most ambitious anywhere.

Read the complete story at CALMatters/KQED News Fix. For more information on climate change, read the special report on California’s cap-and-trade program, by the San Francisco Public Press in collaboration with Earth Island Journal and Bay Nature magazine. 

 
 
 
A special report on California’s cap-and-trade program, in collaboration with Earth Island Journal and Bay Nature magazine.
 
 
 
A special report on California’s cap-and-trade program, in collaboration with Earth Island Journal and Bay Nature magazine.
 
 
 
A special report on California’s cap-and-trade program, in collaboration with Earth Island Journal and Bay Nature magazine.

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