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<\/a><\/p>\nBy withdrawing from the United Nations climate framework and 65 other international organizations, our brainless president is surrendering America\u2019s leadership on the world stage and weakening our ability to compete in the economy of the future \u2014 creating a leadership vacuum that China is already exploiting. <\/p>\n
California will not back down in our leadership. As the world\u2019s fourth-largest economy, the Golden State will continue working with states, cities, and international allies to lower energy costs, reduce toxic pollution, protect public health, and ensure Americans are not denied the enormous economic and health benefits of the clean energy future.<\/p>\n
Governor Gavin Newsom<\/p>\n
California\u2019s on the world stage
\nLast year, Governor Newsom\u2019s administration wrapped up a landmark trip to Brazil for the UN Climate Change Conference (COP30), where California stepped into the U.S. leadership void left by the Trump administration. Over the course of the conference, the Governor and California\u2019s delegation forged strategic partnerships across three continents, announced breakthrough clean energy achievements, and elevated Indigenous voices and subnational leadership on the world stage. <\/p>\n
California\u2019s leadership, as both a founder of the Under2 Coalition and co-chair of national climate alliances, exemplifies how states and regions are driving progress where national governments fall short.<\/p>\n
California\u2019s climate leadership in action
\nPollution is down and the economy is up. Greenhouse gas emissions in California are down 21% since 2000 \u2014 even as the state\u2019s GDP increased 81% in that same time period, all while becoming the world\u2019s fourth largest economy.<\/p>\n
California also continues to set clean energy records. In 2023, the state was powered by two-thirds clean energy, the largest economy in the world to achieve this level. California has also run on 100% clean electricity for part of the day almost every day last year.<\/p>\n
Since the beginning of the Newsom Administration, battery storage has surged to nearly 17,000 megawatts \u2014 a 2,100%+ increase, and over 30,000 megawatts of new resources have been added to the electric grid. California now has 33 percent of the storage capacity estimated to be needed by 2045 to reach 100 percent clean electricity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Sacramento, CA…Governor Gavin Newsom issued the following statement in response to President Trump\u2019s decision to withdraw the United States from the United Nations climate framework: By withdrawing from the United Nations climate framework and 65 other international organizations, our brainless president is surrendering America\u2019s leadership on the world stage and weakening our ability to compete […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":187475,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_cbd_carousel_blocks":"[]","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,5,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-198118","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-government","category-news","last_archivepost"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Newsom25.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198118","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=198118"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198118\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":198119,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198118\/revisions\/198119"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/187475"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=198118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=198118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=198118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}