Newsom Rebukes Absent Trump at UN Climate Talks in Brazil (1)

California Governor Gavin Newsom swept into the COP30 climate summit in Brazil with all the fanfare of a head of state.

He met with foreign ministers, huddled with the governor of the state of Pará, Brazil, and signed a declaration for deepened collaboration with Germany’s Baden-Württemberg.

And everywhere Newsom went inside the packed conferencevenue near the mouth of the Amazon River, he was mobbed by delegates and activists eager for a glimpse of the Democratic governor who’s effectively become the highest-ranking US emissary at the international climate talks.

Governor of California Gavin Newsom

Photographer: Mauro Pimentel/AFP/Getty Images

“The United States of America is as dumb as we ...