{"id":5459,"date":"2017-07-08T11:24:42","date_gmt":"2017-07-08T18:24:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/?p=5459"},"modified":"2017-07-08T11:27:28","modified_gmt":"2017-07-08T18:27:28","slug":"gov-brown-plans-world-climate-action-summit-sf-sfgate-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/2017\/07\/08\/gov-brown-plans-world-climate-action-summit-sf-sfgate-com\/","title":{"rendered":"Gov. Brown plans world \u2018climate action summit\u2019 in SF (sfgate.com)"},"content":{"rendered":"

By\u00a0Peter Fimrite<\/a> July 6, 2017<\/p>\n

Gov.\u00a0Jerry Brown<\/a>\u00a0sought Thursday to bolster his position as America\u2019s de facto climate czar, urging the world to defy President Trump and join him in San Francisco next year for a \u201cclimate action summit.\u201d<\/p>\n

In a prerecorded video address to the Global Citizen Festival in Hamburg, Germany, Brown put forth his most direct challenge to Trump, who will meet Friday with Russian President\u00a0Vladimir Putin<\/a>\u00a0during a Group of 20 summit in the same city, the second-largest in Germany.<\/p>\n

The California summit will be held in San Francisco in September 2018, Brown said, marking the first time a state has sponsored an event in support of the Paris climate agreement, a landmark deal ratified by 148 nations that Trump declared he would withdraw from two months ago.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s up to you and it\u2019s up to me and tens of millions of other people to get it together to roll back the forces of carbonization and join together to combat the existential threat of climate change,\u201d Brown told festival participants.<\/p>\n

\u201cPresident Trump is trying to get out of the Paris agreement, but he doesn\u2019t speak for the rest of America,\u201d the governor said. \u201cWe in California and in states all across America believe it\u2019s time to act, it\u2019s time to join together and that\u2019s why at this climate action summit we\u2019re going to get it done.<\/p>\n

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