Newsom travels to Turkey for climate conference, blasts Trump as a 'no-show'
California Gov. Gavin Newsom has left the state Tuesday to join international leaders at the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Antalya, Turkey. Newsom framed his attendance as an opportunity to tell the world that California's climate leadership is delivering results as he criticized President Trump as a "no-show" for declining to send a delegation on behalf of the United States. "While Donald Trump sells out America's economic security to his fossil fuel donors, California isn't backing down from the climate fight," Newsom said in a statement.
Left out here: Drops what it reported before
The article reports Newsom's pitch that California's climate leadership 'is delivering results' but does not add what the same paper reported a month earlier: that recent analyses show California is not on track to meet its targets of cutting emissions 40% by 2030 and 85% by 2045. The claim is attributed to Newsom, so the gap is small, but a reader gets his account of results with nothing on where the state is falling short.
How we know
- Los Angeles Times wrote earlier“recent analyses indicate California is not on track to meet its future targets of cutting emissions 40% by 2030 and 85% by 2045”A little bipartisan bromance as Schwarzenegger, Newsom laud California's climate-change wins (opens in a new tab)
"Trump is temporary. California's partnerships around the world are not.” Trump's absence on the international stage has created an opening for California governors to contrast their climate policies with the federal government's attempts to reverse the nation's progress. Former Gov. Jerry Brown in 2017 sharply condemned the president's decision to withdraw from the Paris climate agreement. On a 10-day trip to the Vatican, Brussels, Oslo and a UN Climate Conference in Bonn, Germany later that year, Brown was labeled America's "anti-Trump" as he warned that humanity was on the chopping block unless world leaders took action to reduce global emissions.
Brown also hosted his own international climate summit in San Francisco in 2018 to recommit countries to the ideals of the accord that Trump disavowed. Since taking office, Newsom has appeared at several annual Climate Week events in New York and used his speaking opportunities to blast Trump in traditionally apolitical forums, often garnering international applause. In 2019, he burst onto the climate scene when he told foreign leaders he was "absolutely humiliated" by Trump's efforts to walk back the nation's climate policies as the state and federal government were locked in a battle over vehicle emission standards.
Newsom's voyage to Turkey follows a trip to Brazil last year to attend the UN conference, where he similarly cast California as a proxy for the Trump administration. As he considers a run for president in 2028, Newsom is framing his remarks in Antalya, a tourist city on the Mediterranean coast, around his work to reduce greenhouse gases, encourage the use of zero-emission and electric vehicles and increase the state's reliance on clean energy.
Newsom is expected to meet with other world leaders and sign pacts to address climate change together. The governor's envoy in Turkey includes First Partner Jennifer Siebel Newsom and his top climate confidantes: Wade Crowfoot, secretary of the California Natural Resources Agency, and Lauren Sanchez, chair of the California Air Resources Board, among others.
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