Gov. Jerry Brown, in a counter to Trump, lands in China to affirm climate change alliance

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Gov. Jerry Brown landed in China on Saturday to seek a broader role in shaping the world's climate change policies as America retrenches.

President Trump on Thursday pulled the U.S. out of the Paris accord, a hard-fought pact negotiated by China and the U.S. under President Obama to battle global warming worldwide.

Brown brought a fraction of the nearly 100 officials who accompanied him on his trip four years ago, when he rode China's high-speed rail and set up a trade office in Shanghai.

A gritty layer of smog met Brown as he landed in Chengdu, the teaming capital city of Sichuan, a southwestern province famed for its mouth-numbing peppercorns and pandas.

These regions, which are making strides in clean energy development, were the first two Chinese provinces to sign onto an international climate change pact Brown helped create, known as the Under2 Coalition.

He'll co-host a forum on Wednesday with Sichuan officials and China's Ministry of Science and Technology that brings together coalition members to plot carbon-cutting efforts.

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