Gavin Newsom at COP30 pitches California as 'reliable partner' on climate action

12/11/2025 6:22

California Governor Gavin Newsom assured an audience at the COP30 climate summit in Brazil that his state would continue to prioritize green technology, while blasting U.S. President Donald Trump's "dumb" decision to reverse the federal government's course on climate action.



Speaking at an event with Germany's vice minister for climate and state-level officials, he lamented the Trump administration's attacks on the fast-growing clean energy economy as ceding the market to China.



"China is flooding the zone and will dominate in the next great global industry," Newsom said in the first of several scheduled appearances at the U.N. climate summit in Brazil's Amazon city of Belem.