In an address to the California Senate on Thursday, the UN’s top climate change official praised California for its landmark climate legislation and the fact that it has been able to decouple its greenhouse gas emissions from its economic growth, and called on the state to mobilize similar leadership in other regions of the world.
California is the seventh largest economy in the world and has the goal of a 40 percent emissions reduction by 2030 based on1990 levels - the most ambitious target in North America. UNFCCC Executive Secretary Christiana Figueres has been visiting California ahead of the UN Climate Change Conference in Paris, at which a new universal climate change agreement will be signed.
June 18, 2015
