Jerry Brown is still sounding his signature alarm on climate change — and doing an end run around the federal government.
The former California governor on Monday announced the launch of a climate-focused think tank at the University of California, Berkeley, in partnership with China’s top climate official, Xie Zhenhua.
The California-China Climate Institute will conduct research; train Chinese and Californian scientists, experts and policymakers; and hold a series of “subnational climate dialogues” to advance climate policy in the absence of national leadership, Brown said. It will be housed at Berkeley’s School of Law and College of Natural Resources.
