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newsrel -- Air Resources Board Chairman welcomes subnational memorandum of understanding

Posted: 19 May 2015 12:29:40
Please consider the following news release from the California
Air Resources Board: http://bit.ly/1Lig9XV

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

May 19, 2015

NEWS RELEASE 15-28

CONTACT:

Dave Clegern
(916) 322-2990
dave.clegern@arb.ca.gov


Air Resources Board Chairman welcomes subnational memorandum of
understanding

Document creates additional path forward for world climate change
action in Paris this year

PARIS--At a ceremony today at the U.S. Embassy in Paris Air
Resources Board Chairman Mary D. Nichols issued the following
statement in support of the Subnational Global Climate Leadership
Memorandum of Understanding (Under 2 MOU) signed today by
Governor Jerry Brown: 

"This agreement confirms and advances the crucial role that
states, provinces and regions play in the international effort to
slash greenhouse gases and stabilize the world's climate," said
Chairman of the California Air Resources Board Mary D. Nichols.
"This MOU binds together a network of jurisdictions from three
continents to lead in the fight against climate change,
demonstrating the type of international agreement we need to
achieve later this year in Paris." 

Background 

The Under 2 MOU commits the signatory jurisdictions to work
together to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from 80 to 95 percent
by 2050 -- the level scientists now estimate is necessary to hold
global warming to less than two degrees centigrade .
Alternatively, signing jurisdictions can ensure that their
citizens will reduce their individual greenhouse gas emissions to
under two metric tons per year. 

Local and regional governments will be responsible for more than
half the actions needed to achieve those goals.

As a world leader in the fight against climate change California
is already taking a variety of actions, starting with The Global
Warming Solutions Act of 2006 (AB 32). Groundbreaking programs
under that law and other programs in place now will reduce
greenhouse gas emissions in the state back to 1990 levels by 2020
and provide models which may be adopted at a state, regional or
national level. 

Governor Brown recently set the overall goal of reducing those
emissions a further 40 percent by 2030 with the ultimate target
of an 80 percent reduction by 2050

The following jurisdictions are confirmed to sign on to the MOU
as founding signatories by May 19, 2015. 

1. Acre, Brazil
2. Baden-Württemberg, Germany
3. Baja California, Mexico
4. British Columbia, Canada
5. California, USA
6. Catalonia, Spain
7. Jalisco, Mexico
8. Ontario, Canada
9. Oregon, USA
10. Wales, UK
11. Washington, USA

These jurisdictions together represent more than 100 million
people and a collective GDP of about $4 trillion a year, equal to
the fourth largest economy on Earth.



Follow Chairman Nichols on Twitter at
https://twitter.com/MaryNicholsCA


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