California and Canada Sign Climate Change Partnership Agreement

Top officials in California and Canada on Thursday signed an agreement to cooperate on climate change.

The memorandum of understanding, although not legally binding, promotes clean transportation, technology, biodiversity, plastics management, and climate change adaptations. Last month, top officials from California and New Zealand signed a similar pledge.

“Regardless of what’s happening in Washington, D.C., we are a reliable partner,” California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) said at the event.

• “Where the federal government is unwilling or because of logjams—and in this case, Republican interference—unable to actually move forward on the kind of climate leadership necessary,” Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau ...