on •China and California sign deal to work on climate change without TrumpGovernor Jerry Brown says president’s decision to pull the US out of the Paris agreement will be only a temporary setbackAssociated PressTuesday 6 June 2017 22.24 EDTChina and California have signed an agreement to work together on reducing emissions, as the state’s governor warned that “disaster still looms” without urgent action on climate change. The governor of California, Jerry Brown, spoke to reporters at an international clean energy conference in Beijing about Donald Trump’s decision to pull the US out of the Paris agreement, saying it would ultimately prove to be only a temporary setback. For now, he said, China, European countries and individual US states would fill the gap left by the federal government’s decision to abdicate leadership on the issue. We can’t afford any dropouts in the tremendous human challenge to make the transition to a sustainable future,” Brown said. “Disaster still looms and we’ve got to make the turn.”Brown later held a closed-door meeting with the Chinese president, Xi Jinping, during which the two pledged to expand trade between California and ChinaRead More: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/jun/07/china-and-california-sign-deal-to-work-on-climate-change-without-trumpCategories: Societal