{"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":"<p>Dec 7, 2015, COP21, Paris<\/p>\n<p>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\u00a0<a href=\"\/?p=6045\">Oakland 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.<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/koFJwacuGo8\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/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&#8217;ll be trillions in costs to the world.\u00c2\u00a0So it&#8217;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&#8217;re doing to prevent that calamity is a cost effective move, cause you&#8217;re not comparing it with doing nothing, you&#8217;re comparing it with do nothing and disaster happens and that&#8217;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&#8217;s what you want&#8230;\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. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/envirobeat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6183"}],"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}]}}