12 Jun 2017

Germany and California join forces on climate

BMUB / Governor of California

Germany and the US state of California are teaming up to tackle climate change, after US President Donald Trump announced that the US would leave the Paris Climate Agreement. California’s Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. and Germany’s environment minister Barbara Hendricks signed a joint statement after a meeting in San Francisco, stating, "The withdrawal of the US from the Paris Agreement underscores the important role that non-state actors, and particularly subnational actors, play in achieving the overall objective and goals of that Agreement."
Already in 2015, California and the German state of Baden-Wuerttemberg, together with other states had formed the Under2 Coalition - an international pact among cities, states and countries to limit the increase in global average temperature to below 2 degrees Celsius.

Read the BMUB press release in German here and the California governor’s in English here and find the joint statement in English here.

For background, read the CLEW articles German reactions to US decision to withdraw from Paris Agreement and Germany, China urge US to remain in climate agreement.

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