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Industrial Strategies Division The Cap-and-Trade Program is a key element of California’s strategy to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. It complements other measures to ensure that California cost-effectively meets its goals for greenhouse gas emissions reductions.

It which is why staff leaves bart is worried about public backlash. >> bret: thank you. california governor jerry brown moves forward with the states plan to combat climate change. the governor signed several bills into law today extending the states cap and trade program. california trying to adhere to the goals of the paris climate change accord even after president trump withdrew from the pact. opponents say the package of bills represented a regressive tax that would not affect climate chang...

Reading about a crime and sing it which is why staff leaves bart is worried about public backlash. >> bret: thank you. california governor jerry brown moves forward with the states plan to combat climate change. the governor signed several bills into law today extending the states cap and trade program. california trying to adhere to the goals of the paris climate change accord even after president trump withdrew from the pact. opponents say the package of bills represented a regressive tax that...

Climate action policy. we have a goal of 50% renewable electricity by 2030. were already about 27% now. and well even go beyond that. we have zero emission mandates for automobiles. we have energy and appliance regulatory standards. we also have a cap and trade program. were all in. and of course i have to admit weve got a long, long way to go. but were moving in that direction and the economy has rewarded these policies with a growth of 40% faster than the national average. 2.3 million jobs jus...

A new letter out in your state. theyre asking you to consider convening a special climate summit to, quote, partner with mexico and canada and invite other states to ensure that you continue charging ahead. is that something specifically you would also do? >> well, it just came out an hour ago and i have talked to the senate leadership on that. so it sounds like a good idea. can we pull it off? if we can, yeah. i want to talk to the prime minister in canada, the president of mexico, and if we ca...

Interview is california governor jerry brown. governor, thanks for joining us on this busy day for you. how are you going to combat this move from president trump? >> stay the course. california has a very aggressive and imaginative climate action policy. we have a goal of 50% renewable electricity by 2030. were already about 27% now. and well even go beyond that. we have zero emission mandates for automobiles. we have energy and appliance regulatory standards. we also have a cap and trade progr...

We are harmonizing our standards with china. china has a very powerful mandate for zero emission cars. they are developing their own cap and trade program. california is refining our cap and trade program. there are areas of collaboration. california right now has as much clean tech capital investment entrepreneurial venture capital investment as china and the rest of europe combined. so were doing a lot. were going to do more with china, and were going to link closely together. it used to be ch...

The chinese president is going to announce this new cap and trade program. youll recall that president obama has tried mightily to get our congress to pass a cap and trade program for the united states. those efforts failed in part because of objections that the chinese werent doing more about their carbon pollution, so why should we get ahead of them. now if the "new york times" is right and china is about to take this big step, that is huge for the climate. its also potentially huge for americ...

Some other program to limit carbon in the u.s. the congressional resistance has been in large part because china wasnt doing enough and so therefore why should we. now if china is forging ahead here in dealing with climate change using a u.s.-designed policy to do so, this could change everything in the political climate around the climate climate. again, "new york times" first reporting this. nbc news now confirming the announcement tomorrow that there will be a cap and trade program in china. ...

Being reported by the "new york times." nbc news has not confirmed this. but "the new york times" is reporting tonight that china is about to announce a massive new cap and trade program to limit greenhouse gases in that country. if this is true, this is kind of the big kahuna in terms of global policy to address climate change. the chinese president of course arrived on the west coast earlier this week. he arrived in d.c. this afternoon. tonight hes having a private dinner with president obama....