Recap of Global Climate Action Summit

The Global Climate Action Summit was held Sept. 12-14 in San Francisco, CA drawing vast commitments from governments and businesses to promote a low-carbon transportation future. The goal of the summit was to “join forces to step up climate action ahead of 2020—the year when global greenhouse gases need to peak and fall sharply thereafter to avoid the worst impacts of climate change.”

The meeting included leaders from businesses, cities, states, regions, and investors. The outcomes were a range of commitments in five specific challenge areas: Health Energy Systems, Inclusive Economic Growth, Sustainable Communities, Land and Ocean Stewardship, and Transformative Climate Investments.

​Here are some of the commitments and happenings in the transportation sector that came out of this summit below.

• Ahead of the summit, California Governor Jerry Brown signed SB100, a landmark law that will require California to get 100% of its electricity from zero carbon sources by 2045.
• California Governor Brown also signed a suite of bills to advance zero emission vehicles.
• 30 U.S. cities committed to a joint purchase agreement for EVs.
• 17 states joined together to pledge $1.4 billion of VW settlement funds to electrification.
• ChargePoint pledged to deliver 2.5 million charging spots by 2025.
• EVBox committed to installing 1 million charging points by 2025.
• Ikea committed to all electric vehicles by 2020 in Shanghai, Paris, Amsterdam, New York City, and Los Angeles.

The summit also has a list of commitments here.