Gov. Jerry Brown Travels Through Europe on a Climate ‘Crusade’

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The mantle of climate leadership falls on California, says Gov. Jerry Brown. Photo by Max Whittaker for CALmatters

CALmatters

The hosts of the U.N. climate change conference in Bonn, Germany, have a problem. The U.S. government — the longtime leader of the climate battle — has dwindling interest in this issue under the Trump administration, but it has sent a delegation to join international leaders as they hash out further terms of the 2015 Paris climate agreement.

Stepping into this vacuum is the increasingly influential California Gov. Jerry Brown, who will preside over a series of events on the periphery of the conference.

Read the story at CALmatters.

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