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Politico: How California and Quebec are trying to Trump-proof their climate effort

December 23, 2019

Politico’s Jeremy B. White and Andy Blatchford quote me in a story about Québécois Premier François Legault’s visit with Governor Newsom to discuss the two governments’ cap-and-trade partnership, which the U.S. Department of Justice has challenged in court:

“What really matters is how you get others to follow, and cooperation between subnational governments like California and Quebec is often seen as a way to do that,” said Danny Cullenward, a Stanford economist who helps oversee California’s cap-and-trade program.

But that effort to generate some momentum doesn’t guarantee a durable result, Cullenward said, given that it’s unenforceable.

“It’s really just a political commitment that’s been written down,” Cullenward said. “It’s not a commitment that a party could take to a court in another jurisdiction and enforce.”

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