Governor Jerry Brown is in Bonn, Germany, this week for the annual United Nations climate change conference. President Trump, who pulled the U.S. out of the Paris Climate Accord earlier this year, is not attending. Climate change, Trump says, is a hoax.
But Governor Brown wants the world to know that Californians think very differently.
When cities & states combine together & then join with powerful corporations, that's how we get stuff done. We're here, we're in and we're not going away. #ClimateAction #COP23 pic.twitter.com/X1CKlO806O
— Governor Newsom Press Office (@GovPressOffice) November 12, 2017
The UN conference is just the latest stop on Brown's tour of Europe, where he's working his brand of climate diplomacy. Senior Politico reporter David Siders has been writing about the governor's evolution into a global leader on climate change. He spoke with Take Two's Josie Huang from Germany.
"So much of what's going on in climate change diplomacy right now at either the national or the state level is really public relations, right?" Siders said. "It's not about a mandated commitment."