California's top environmental official on Tuesday plans to sign an agreement with the United Nations to help China reduce its greenhouse gas emissions.The memorandum of understanding drafted by the U.N. Development Programme pairs California with one of the world's largest emitters of greenhouse gases. California produces more greenhouse gases than any other state but also has taken strides to significantly reduce its output. That includes attempts to roll back auto and factory emissions, while trying to institute an emissions-trading system for industry.
California promises to share policy ideas and research for curbing greenhouse gas emissions, according to the four-page agreement to be signed on Earth Day in Beijing. The state also would mobilize public agencies and encourage private entities in California to support climate change projects in China.
"I think it will help show them they can indeed reach set targets and move forward on environmental protection and maintain a strong economy as California has," Linda Adams, California's Environmental Protection Agency secretary, said Monday in a telephone interview from Beijing.
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