SAN FRANCISCO – Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. will deliver remarks tomorrow in San Francisco at the “Climate is Big Business” conference hosted by the California Environmental Protection Agency and the Netherlands’ Ministry of Infrastructure and the Environment to highlight business and investment opportunities in the transition to a lower carbon economy.

When: Tomorrow, Wednesday, May 24, 2017 at approx. 11:00 a.m.
Where: Golden Gate Club, Presidio of San Francisco, 135 Fisher Loop, San Francisco, CA 94129

**NOTE: This conference is open to invited guests and credentialed media only. Reporters interested in attending must RSVP to Sietze Vermeulen at sietze.vermeulen@minbuza.nl or 415-866-5572. Additional program details can be found here.

The conference is part of the Dutch Minister of Infrastructure and the Environment Sharon Dijksma’s four-day climate trade mission to California and builds on California’s ongoing partnership with the Netherlands to boost energy efficiency and fight climate change. In 2015, the Netherlands joined the Under2 Coalition – the global pact among cities, states and countries to limit the increase in global average temperature to below 2 degrees Celsius. The Netherlands also joined California and Quebec in 2015 to launch the International Zero-Emission Vehicle Alliance, an international coalition created to accelerate the adoption of global zero-emission vehicles. Additionally, California signed a Letter of Intent with the Dutch Ministry of Infrastructure and the Environment in 2013 to cooperate on zero-emission vehicles and climate change and in 2015 signed a Letter of Intent with the Netherlands Ministry of Economic Affairs to further collaboration on sustainable agricultural technology and practices.