Local brief
California and France sign climate and clean-energy partnership (Oct. 9, 2026)
Gov. Gavin Newsom and French Minister Monique Barbut signed a letter of intent in San Francisco on Oct. 9, 2026, to share work on wildfire, extreme heat, power grids, clean transportation and farming.
Gov. Gavin Newsom and Monique Barbut, France’s minister for ecological transition, signed a letter of intent in San Francisco on Oct. 9, 2026, starting a new partnership between California and France.
The two sides plan to trade expertise on preventing wildfire and heat illness, modernizing power grids (including France’s grid operator and California’s energy agencies), cleaner transportation including high-speed rail, climate-smart farming and pest control, air quality and methane, and cutting waste. Both aim to conserve 30% of lands and coastal waters by 2030.
CalEPA will lead California’s side and write an action plan with the French ministry. The state business office (GO-Biz) and the French consulate in San Francisco will connect businesses and researchers. The state says it has signed more than 70 international partnerships under this administration.
Original source: Office of Gov. Gavin Newsom news release, Oct. 9, 2026 — https://www.gov.ca.gov/newsroom/
What to read next: the California hub (https://noticenearby.com/ca).
Notice Nearby is a Public Register listing, not a newspaper, and this page is not Legal Publication. If the agency and this note disagree, the agency wins.
Source: the public notice on this register NN-GOVMAIL-20261009B-14 · Office of California Gov. Gavin Newsom.
This is a Notice Nearby local brief — an in-house explainer written from a government-posted notice on this register. It is not official minutes, not a newspaper story, and not Legal Publication.