San Francisco Chronicle: With international agreements to control climate change hard to achieve, environmentalists hope an innovative new link between California and the Chinese government to cooperate on a range of low-carbon economic ventures jump-starts other ways to tackle the problem.
On Friday, Gov. Jerry Brown signed a memorandum of understanding with China's lead international climate negotiator, Xie Zhenhua, the country's vice chair of its National Development and Reform Commission, the agency that oversees...