California and Denmark sign climate technology partnership

Governor Gavin Newsom signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) between California and Denmark formalizing cooperation on clean energy, green economy resilience, technology, innovation, and cyber resilience during a signing ceremony in San Francisco on Aug 22, 2025.

• Primary action: The MOU between the State of California and Denmark (delegations led by Governor Gavin Newsom, Danish Foreign Minister Lars Løkke Rasmussen, and Ambassador Jesper Møller Sørensen) commits to cooperation on green economy resilience, technology, innovation, and digital/cyber resilience, and explicitly advances efforts to achieve carbon neutrality by 2045; the full MOU text is published at the California government website.
• Background and implementation details: The agreement specifies mechanisms for public-private collaboration, research exchange, development projects, trade promotions, dialogues, and delegations; contextual state metrics cited include carbon emissions down 20% since 2000, battery storage >15,000 megawatts, over 25,000 megawatts of new grid resources added, and California being powered by two-thirds clean energy in 2023; no monetary values or contract amounts were provided in the announcement.