CarbonBrief: China’s 2060 ‘carbon neutrality’ goal covers ‘all greenhouse gases’
Xie Zhenhua, China’s special envoy for climate change, has said that the country aims to neutralise “all GHGs” before 2060. He noted that China intends to achieve the neutrality of “the emissions of greenhouse gases in all economic sectors, not just CO2”.
China Daily: Cooperation essential for climate battle
China and the United States would benefit from cooperation in tackling climate change, a forum has heard as reports aired at the gathering reinforced the need for the two biggest economies to coordinate their efforts.
Breakthroughs: Q&A Governor Jerry Brown
In Breakthroughs, a publication of UC Berkeley's Rausser College of Natural Resources, Professor Dan Kammen, a former U.S. State Department science envoy who serves on the academic advisory committee for California-China Climate Institute, recently sat down with Governor Jerry Brown to discuss goals for the institute, how research can affect policy more quickly, and reasons for optimism on climate change.
China Daily: Experts: China, US share similar goals in tackling climate change
China and the United States share a set of similar goals when it comes to climate change, which could help advance collaboration and inspire others around the world to work together toward curbing greenhouse gas emissions, according to a recent report and climate experts.
KQED: Political Breakdown - Mary Nichols on California Climate Leadership and Biden's 'Inflection point'
Former California Air Resources Board Chair and California-China Climate Institute Vice-Chair Mary Nichols joins KQED to discuss how she arrived in California, working for Jerry Brown and Arnold Schwarzenegger, how Joe Biden has followed California's lead on climate policy and the potential for ongoing collaboration with China on lowering emissions.
Bloomberg: U.S. and China Emissions Ambitions
Aimee Barnes, senior advisor at California-China Climate Institute and founder of Hua Nani Partners, discusses President Joe Biden’s climate summit, the reputation of the United States on the world stage and the U.S.’s climate goals. She speaks on “Bloomberg Markets: China Open.”
E&E News: Five-Year Plan lacks climate ambition
China on Friday released a draft blueprint of its latest Five-Year Plan for economic growth, and climate experts said it dashes hope that the world's largest greenhouse gas emitter would use the landmark document to meaningfully ramp up its response to global warming.
CGTN: China-California climate change collaboration
Just days after former U.S. President Donald Trump announced he was pulling the out of the Paris agreement, one U.S. state governor took climate concerns into his own hands.
Quartz: China's new Five-Year Plan is a letdown on climate
China watchers hoped China’s latest five-year plan, the policy document dictating the country’s near-term economic strategy, would contain new details on how the country plans to hit peak greenhouse gas emissions by 2030, and maybe even move that date ahead a few years. But the plan, released on March 5, failed to deliver.
China Daily: Climate key to US-China Cooperation
Environmental experts and policymakers said that climate change remains a "constructive part" of the US-China relationship, despite tensions in other sectors, and the world's two largest emitters of greenhouse gases should seize the opportunity to cooperate.
E&E News: Mary Nichols joins climate think tank
Former California air pollution regulator Mary Nichols is joining a think tank, the California-China Climate Institute, that promotes cooperation between the Golden State and China on climate change matters.
Politico: Nichols joins think tanks devoted to transportation, China climate policy
Former California Air Resources Board Chair Mary Nichols is taking leadership roles at new transportation policy advisory group and a UC Berkeley think tank devoted to China's climate change policies.
LA Times: Op-Ed: Jerry Brown: Biden first task should be working with China on Climate Change
In 2017, during my final term as governor of California, I traveled to China in search of climate partnerships with both national and local authorities. I knew that California’s path-breaking vehicle emission standards and other climate laws would prove ineffective unless other states — and countries — enacted similar measures. If California wanted to succeed in forcing the big auto companies to cut their emissions and shift to zero-emission vehicles, there would be no better ally than China, whose market every car company coveted.
BBC: The Climate Question - America vs China
California-China Climate Institute Chair, Governor Jerry Brown, speaks with the BBC World Service's Neal Razzell about the future of US-China climate relations and what to expect from the incoming administration.
NYT: Jerry Brown on a California Exodus: ‘Tell Me: Where Are You Going to Go?’
From his ranch, the former California governor is experiencing the same smoky air wafting through much of the state. “We are causing this,” he declared in an interview.
Rolling Stone: "It’s Time for All Hands on Deck": Jerry Brown on Why The U.S. Needs China—And China Needs Us—to Fight the Climate Crisis
In an interview with Rolling Stone, Gov. Jerry Brown opens up about the importance of U.S.-China diplomacy in the race to combat climate change.
Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists: Jerry Brown speaks to Congress on cars and climate change
Watch highlights from Jerry Brown's testimony before Congress on CA environmental policy and the need to address climate change.
SF Chronicle: Jerry Brown implores Washington to act on climate: ‘California’s burning’
Jerry Brown delivered an impassioned plea to Congress for immediate action on climate change in light of deadly fires raging across California.
LA Times: Jerry Brown to testify to Congress about Trump's environmental fight with California
Jerry Brown is slated to testify before Congress about the Trump Administration's proposed weakening of nationwide fuel efficiency standards and offer a defense of California's proactive environmental agenda.
Politico: Brown: California fires show 'the horror' world will face from climate change
CCCI Chair Jerry Brown shared his perspective on California's deadly wildfire season and the urgency of combatting climate change with Politico.