{"id":6183,"date":"2015-12-08T00:57:56","date_gmt":"2015-12-08T07:57:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/envirobeat.com\/?p=6183"},"modified":"2015-12-10T01:39:17","modified_gmt":"2015-12-10T08:39:17","slug":"cop21-california-governor-brown-in-panel-discussion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/envirobeat.com\/?p=6183","title":{"rendered":"COP21: California Governor Brown in Panel Discussion"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dec 7, 2015, COP21, Paris<\/p>\n

California Governor Brown participated in a panel discussion in Paris led by Greg Dalton of ClimateOne and \u00c2\u00a0also\u00c2\u00a0including\u00c2\u00a0co-panelist\u00c2\u00a0Oakland Mayor\u00c2\u00a0Libby Schaaf <\/a>-\u00c2\u00a0both\u00c2\u00a0part the\u00c2\u00a0large California contingent inside COP21 during the talks.\u00c2\u00a0Brown\u00c2\u00a0spoke in favor or green development and a carbon tax as\u00c2\u00a0important steps to avoid the far greater expense of a climate calamity.
\n<\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/envirobeat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/JerryBrown02704_550.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-6186 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/envirobeat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/JerryBrown02704_550.jpg\" alt=\"JerryBrown02704_550\" width=\"550\" height=\"367\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153We gotta do something about climate change or that’ll be trillions in costs to the world.\u00c2\u00a0So it’s cheaper,\u00c2\u00a0whatever the cost benefit says. If we go past a tipping point and things really get screwed up, it is going to be expensive. So whatever we’re doing to prevent that calamity is a cost effective move, cause you’re not comparing it with doing nothing, you’re comparing it with do nothing and disaster happens and that’s expensive, versus investing in solar, in electric vehicles, in energy efficient buildings, a carbon tax and all the rest. And even the carbon tax, what it does is, it burdens carbon intensive industries, and that’s what you want…\u00e2\u20ac\u009d ~ Governor Brown<\/p>\n<p>Report by James George<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dec 7, 2015, COP21, Paris California Governor Brown participated in a panel discussion in Paris led by Greg Dalton of ClimateOne and \u00c2\u00a0also\u00c2\u00a0including\u00c2\u00a0co-panelist\u00c2\u00a0Oakland Mayor\u00c2\u00a0Libby Schaaf -\u00c2\u00a0both\u00c2\u00a0part the\u00c2\u00a0large California contingent inside COP21 during the talks.\u00c2\u00a0Brown\u00c2\u00a0spoke in favor or green development and a carbon tax as\u00c2\u00a0important steps to avoid the far greater expense of a climate calamity. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6183","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/envirobeat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6183","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/envirobeat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/envirobeat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/envirobeat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/envirobeat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6183"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/envirobeat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6183\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6192,"href":"https:\/\/envirobeat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6183\/revisions\/6192"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/envirobeat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/envirobeat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/envirobeat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}