The White House is cobbling together a program under existing powers to bring young people into low-carbon energy and climate resilience jobs.
Driving the news: Officials just unveiled the "American Climate Corps." It's an executive branch stab at the New Deal-inspired "Civilian Climate Corps" idea, which the White House unsuccessfully urged Congress to create and fund with billions of dollars in what became the Inflation Reduction Act.
The first local climate summit will take place at the U.N. climate meeting in Dubai later this year.
Driving the news: The confab will include hundreds of mayors, governors and other regional leaders together with heads of state, COP28 president-designate Sultan Ahmed al-Jaber and UN special envoy Michael Bloomberg plan to announce this morning.
Electric aircraft maker Joby Aviation announced plans Monday to build its first scaled production plant to produce "flying taxis" in Dayton, Ohio.
Why it matters: Dayton is regarded as the home of aviation as brothers Orville and Wilbur Wright invented and flew the first powered aircraft, lived and worked in the city, opening the first airplane factory in the U.S. there in 1910 — something Joby paid homage to in its announcement.
