The leaders met less than a week after President Trump pulled the U.S. from a historic Paris climate accord. Brown started his trip with visits to the southern Chinese cities of Chengdu and Nanjing, where he repeated his grim warnings about climate change and signed agreements on clean energy. This is China’s first time hosting the Clean Energy Ministerial, which began amid the city’s characteristic sheen of haze. The split gives China an opening to portray itself as an alternative global leader on green energy. It plans to pour $361 billion into clean energy by 2020.

Source: Los Angeles Times June 06, 2017 17:45 UTC