Gov. Newsom inked new climate deal between California and Kenya. (Photo: gov.ca.gov)
Gov. Newsom Inks Another ‘Climate Deal’ – This Time With Kenya
‘Achieving carbon neutrality for one’s current emissions is not the end-goal, but rather a bridge to more substantial reductions’
By Katy Grimes, September 25, 2025 2:46 pm
Governor Gavin Newsom today announced yet another climate change partnership – this one between California and Kenya, “to advance efforts to cut pollution and support trade.”
Who has to cut pollution – California or Kenya?
Governor Newsom is acting more like Prime Minister Newsom – the head of his own subnational government, which operates below a country’s national or central government.
“The Governor led California’s delegation in a bilateral meeting with the delegation from Kenya, led by Kenyan President William Ruto. California and Kenya signed the Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) at Climate Week in New York yesterday,” Newsom’s press statement says. Text of the MOU is available here.
A climate Memorandum of Understanding is not legally binding. Nor can a governor of a state within the United States of America sign a compact with another country, even for climate change.
“Today’s announcement builds on the partnership announced Tuesday between California and Brazil on climate,” Newsom said.
California Governor Gavin Newsom inked a partnership between California and Brazil “to scale up cooperation” on climate change schemes, clean energy, cutting pollution, and “job-creating climate opportunities,” the Globe reported Wednesday. What a contrast between Gov. Newsom and President Donald Trump who said when addressing the UN General Assembly, “This ‘climate change,’ it’s the greatest con job ever perpetrated on the world, in my opinion.”
Gov. Newsom calls climate change “the existential issue of our time.”
Con job or existential threat?
“Anybody who tells you that carbon dioxide contributes to air pollution either doesn’t know what they are talking about, or worse, they are deliberately trying to deceive you,” COLAB’s Andy Caldwell told me again recently. “Carbon dioxide is what each one of us exhales after every breath we take. C02 was never considered a pollutant at all until the onset of climate change theories, and only in that regard is it considered a negative.”
Remember when in 2022, Governor Gavin Newsom signed a sweeping package of climate change legislation – “some of the nation’s most aggressive climate measures” – “to achieve carbon neutrality no later than 2045 and 90% clean energy by 2035, establish new setback measures protecting communities from oil drilling, capture carbon pollution from the air, advance nature-based solutions?”
“Carbon neutrality” is a catch-all now for anything climate changy. “Achieving carbon neutrality for one’s current emissions is not the end-goal, but rather a bridge to more substantial reductions,” Yale sustainability experts claim.
Aha, it’s “a bridge to more substantial reductions.”
In October 2013, California Gov. Jerry Brown, together with the Governors of Oregon and Washington and the British Columbia Premier, signed the Pacific Coast Action Plan on Climate and Energy, ‘to align climate change policies and promote clean energy,’” I reported. “The Pacific Coast Collaborative links with the West Coast Infrastructure Exchange (WCX), a compact between California, Oregon, Washington and British Columbia. The WCX is linked to the Clinton Foundation’s Clinton Global Initiative.”
Then in 2022, Newsom re-inked that deal with Oregon Governor Kate Brown, Washington Governor Jay Inslee, and British Columbia Premier John Horgan. They “doubled down” and signed a new Statement of Cooperation, another climate agreement – the Pacific Coast Collaborative – “recommitting” the Western region “to climate action.” Gov. Newsom called climate change “the issue that unites all of us, not just here, but around the rest of the globe.”
It appears Gavin Newsom is uniting himself with 28 countries, because the people of California don’t get anything out of these deals, except higher taxes, higher energy costs and more regulations on business. If that presidential thing doesn’t work out for Gavin, he can always run the Climate Action wing of the United Nations.
Here is more about Newsom’s 28 climate deals with foreign countries – they no longer refer to them as “compacts” as Jerry Brown did, and instead call these deals “MOUs” because compacts are illegal with a governor – and MOUs aren’t legally binding:
“The Newsom Administration has partnered with jurisdictions in 28 countries, touching more than a quarter of the world’s population and a combined GDP in the tens of trillions of dollars.
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Last month, California and Denmark signed an MOU to boost their green economies and enhance digital and cyber resilience.
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In February, Governor Newsom signed an MOU with 21 Brazilian state governors through Consórcio Brasil Verde (CBV). The partnership has been successful in collaboration across multiple pillars of climate and environmental policy.
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Last year, Governor Newsom welcomed a new international partnership with South Korea’s Gyeonggi Province to collaborate on climate and economic efforts. Also last year, Governor Newsomwelcomed delegations from Sweden and Norway and signed renewed climate partnerships with the two governments.
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In 2023, Governor Newsom led a California delegation to China, where California signed five MOUs – with China’s National Development and Reform Commission, the provinces of Guangdong and Jiangsu, and the municipalities of Beijing, and Shanghai. The trip also resulted in a first-of-its-kind declaration by China and California to cooperate on climate action like aggressively cutting greenhouse gas emissions, transitioning away from fossil fuels, and developing clean energy.
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Also in 2023, California signed a MOU with the Chinese province of Hainan, as well as with Australia.
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In 2022, California signed Memorandums of Cooperation with Canada, New Zealand and Japan, as well as Memorandums of Understanding with China and the Netherlands, to tackle the climate crisis. The Governor also joined with Washington, Oregon, and British Columbia to recommit the region to climate action.
The frequently repeated lie that America is the world’s number #2 polluter behind China comes from the mouths of people seeking to benefit and/or profit from these policies.
“Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber,” warned a guy named Plato.
A California native and Navy mom, Katy lives in Sacramento, CA.
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The longer Trump delays his resignation and trafer of the presidency to Vance the more emboldened Newsom will become.
Newsom knows of Trump’s compromised status; Newsom tactfully exploiting Trump’s weaknesses.
What you are seeing is Newscum’s panic knowing that he is headed to GITMO to be tried for treason.
That works.
Oh look, it’s more delusional nonsense coming from one of Hair-gel Hitler Newsom’s bitchy trolls. If anyone is compromised and needs to resign, it’s your master Hair-gel Hitler Newsom. Now run along bitchy troll.
SERIOUSLY? This treasonous bird-flipping bozo of a governor, Gavin Newsom, has completely lost his mind. But we knew that already, didn’t we.
Meanwhile, California has slipped to last place for unemployment rate, highest school dropout rate, highest gas prices in the nation according to AAA, and highest Supplemental Poverty Rate at 13.2%.
Can we fire this useless Governor? He doesn’t do his job. Any idiot could go around and get countries to sign this climate change piece of paper.
Useless Newsom should be clearing out the brush and preventing fires that spew huge amounts of C02 in the air.
But, but but… Climate Chaaasnge!!
The picture posted with Newsolini standing behind the Kenyans is just so CREEPY! He has a very evil smile. Do the Kenyans know they may have just signed a deal with the Anti-Christ?
Newsom’s outside appearance is reflective of his dirty deeds, lies and deceit. He certainly does not exude love and light!
Kenya move away from the darkness.
I just realized that the proper term is Climate Cha-ching, and with elites laughing all the way to the bank after the plebeian suckers buy into it.
Perfect, Cha,-ching!
They laugh all the way to the publisher!
Soon, Newsom will announce a new book deal, it will be all about his rise to governor and beyond! It has become apparent that is how these slime-balls launder their money!
Kenya is one those African countries that have difficulty literally keeping the lights on.
The globalist climate cultists that Newsom belongs have convinced struggling countries that renewables will save them.
Not working so well here in California but that is beside the point. Time to fleece 3rd world countries!
https://energyforgrowth.org/article/the-illusion-of-excess-capacity-in-kenya/
Oom papa mow mow…
You must like Elvira by the Oak Ridge Boys? I haven’t heard that line in a long time. It’s a good one.
As you may know and had the benefit to experience.
Back then music was apolitical a
& family friendly.
Here we see Newsom’s creds being pumped up by a country that is part of China’s belt & road initiative.
https://www.voanews.com/a/key-chinese-belt-and-road-projects-underway-in-africa/7767507.html
China is already attempting to influence a potential 2028 presidential candidates’ image with phony agreement that are worthless.
Hal, I would have no disbelief upon hearing that the Guber has been hiding a completed BRICS application under his pillow, ready to submit.
Why Newsom signed with Kenya? His buddies in China are grooming Newsom.
China is Kenya’s largest trading partner and bilateral creditor, with trade volume exceeding $7 billion annually as of 2024, though heavily imbalanced in China’s favor—Kenya exports primarily tea, coffee, and horticultural products, while importing manufactured goods and electronics. Chinese foreign direct investment (FDI) in Kenya reached over $1 billion by 2023, focusing on infrastructure, manufacturing, and agriculture.
Yep!
Same with Brazil!
China is making inroads with Brazil. Who better than China Gav to ink a deal!
China Joe can’t do it anymore!
SORRY GOV BUT ANY TREATY SIGNED BY A GOVERNOR OR MAYOR OF ANY U.S. STATE OR CITY IS ILLEGAL UNDER THE CONSTITUTION OF THESE UNITED STATES. ONLY THE SENATE HAS THE POWER TO APPROVE OR DIS APPROVE A TREATY AND SO FAR THE SENATE HAS DIS APPROVED EVERY CLIMATE TREATY BROUGHT TO IT. IT’S WHY CLINTON NEVER SIGNED THE KYOTO ACCORDS BECAUSE HE KNEW IT WOULD NOT PASS THRU THE SENATE. IT’S WHY OBAMA AND KERRY NEVER BROUGHT THEIR CLIMATE DEAL TO THE SENATE IT WOULD NEVER HAVE PASSED.
((Mutual Participation Awards))
Newsom has it backwards. It is the grifters in the climate cult religion who are “the existential issue of our time.”
Gavin Newscum is a vile, lying, cheating, crooked, slimy snake-oil salesman. Never believe a word that comes out of that SOB dirt-bags mouth.
LOL! Just a bunch of silly nonsense. None of it binding. Just virtue signaling stupidity.
You say tomahto, I say tomato… a treaty is a treaty whether you call it an mou, agreement or any other misleading, redrective euphamism. According to article 2, section 2 of the US Constition, the President has the authority to make treaties with the advice and consent of the Senate, not governors, not “Trainwreck Newsom.” And, it’s about time for someone with federal juice to rattle Newsom’s cage over it.
Wondering if any of the Guber’s environmental allies scored a Democratic twofer here in “consultation”@FaminePlanning.
Then they went to every box store within 50 miles, right?
I believe a values Guber wants to share most are in a geological deposit of Lithium, though perhaps the
good Kenyans threw in a refined citrate formulation as part of the deal.
There is no climate emergency.
https://headexplosionfx.com/GLOBAL%20CLIMATE%20CHANGE%20STASTICAL%20SUMMARY.pdf