Overview
- Newsom concluded a high‑profile week at COP30 as the most visible American official, spotlighting California’s 21% emissions drop since 2000 and a 2023 power mix that was about two‑thirds clean energy.
- California signed agreements with Chile, Colombia, Nigeria, and Brazil, plus Pará state, covering methane reduction, forest protection, clean transport, innovation, and wildfire prevention and response.
- The governor met Indigenous leaders in the Amazon’s Jamaraquá community to discuss conservation practices, nature‑based solutions, and sustainable economic development.
- In sessions with investors and executives, he said companies face risk from policy swings in the U.S., urging them to factor potential future climate rules into long‑horizon plans.
- Conservative coverage emphasized California’s high gasoline prices, with EIA pointing to taxes, environmental requirements, and a special fuel blend as drivers of the gap ($4.67 statewide average, about $0.90 in taxes, roughly $0.54 in compliance costs).