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PARIS AGREEMENT

EU cities’ and regions’ goals echoed at COP22 as multi-level
governance and climate finance make progress.
During the COP22 the UN also warned of the gap between National
Determined Contributions (NDCs) – government’s climate
commitments - and the objective to keep global temperature rise
well below 2°C. To bridge this gap President Markkula called for
the achievements by cities and regions to cut greenhouse gases to
be integrated into the NDCs as soon as possible. ‘The EU must
take the lead and incorporate cities’ and regions’ carbon
emission achievements in time for the next NDC revision period
that starts in 2018’ President Markkula remarked.
http://cor.europa.eu/en/news/Pages/COP22-Marrakech-sets-new-path.aspx


Forging ahead on climate action.
Last year, participants in the Paris Agreement on climate change
expressed the shared global objective of limiting temperature
rise, with each party to the agreement laying out its intended
national contributions to addressing climate change. At this
year’s UN Climate Change Conference (COP22) in Marrakech,
Morocco, as the world wondered what a change in administration
could mean for U.S. climate policy and — by extension — the
momentum for the Paris Agreement, national and civil society
leaders repeatedly expressed their commitment to upholding and
advancing implementation of the agreement.
http://news.mit.edu/2016/forging-ahead-climate-action-1122

AIR POLLUTION

Beijing to ban polluting cars during smog alerts.
Beijing will next year ban highly polluting old cars from being
driven whenever air quality alerts are issued in the city or
neighboring regions, the city's environmental protection bureau
said on Monday. China has adopted various measures over the years
to reduce the blankets of smog which shroud many of the country's
northern cities in the winter, causing hazardous traffic
conditions and disrupting daily life.
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-pollution-idUSKBN13G0Z3 

CLIMATE CHANGE

EPA Chief: Progress Under Obama Won’t Be Undone by Trump.
President-elect Donald Trump will not derail progress made in
fighting climate change and creating clean-energy jobs, the head
of the Environmental Protection Agency insisted on Monday in
arguing "the inevitability of our clean energy future is bigger
than any one person or nation." EPA chief Gina McCarthy said the
world is "in a spectacularly different place today than we were
when President (Barack) Obama took office," citing new
environmental rules and actions to help create thousands of jobs
in renewable energy such as wind and solar power.
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_ENVIRONMENT_NEW_ADMINISTRATION?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT


Related articles:
http://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Trump-may-reverse-US-climate-policy-but-will-have-10629304.php
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2016/nov/21/epa-chief-trump-cant-revive-fossil-fuel-industry/


Donald Trump Says He Has ‘Open Mind’ on Climate Change Accord.
President-elect Donald J. Trump said on Tuesday that he would
“keep an open mind” about whether to pull the United States out
of a landmark multinational agreement on climate change. During
his presidential campaign, Mr. Trump repeatedly said he would
withdraw from the Paris climate accord. But on Tuesday, he said,
“I’m looking at it very closely. I have an open mind to it.”
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/22/us/politics/donald-trump-visit.html


Attack on climate action under Trump? It happened in Canada.
When Donald Trump becomes president in January, he will not be
the first climate-change skeptic to take the reins of a major
Western democracy. In fact, he’ll be following a path trodden in
recent years by leaders in two other English-speaking nations,
Canada, and Australia. Both Stephen Harper in Canada and Tony
Abbott in Australia have voiced skepticism of climate change as
an urgent challenge (sometimes verging, like Mr. Trump, into
blunt denial of the issue’s validity). Both were heads of state
in recent years, and the commonalities in their stories hint at
what Americans could experience in the coming years  – what Trump
might do on the environment, but also the limits on his power.
http://www.csmonitor.com/Environment/Inhabit/2016/1122/Attack-on-climate-action-under-Trump-It-happened-in-Canada


Get Used to Heat Records; Study Predicts Far More in Future.
The United States is already setting twice as many daily heat
records as cold records, but a new study predicts that will get a
lot more lopsided as man-made climate change worsens. Under
normal conditions, without extra heat-trapping gases from human
activity, the nation should set about the same number of hot and
cold records over the course of several years. But that’s not
happening and it’s steadily getting worse, scientists said.
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_SCI_FUTURE_HEAT_RECORDS?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT


Young activists seek tougher action on climate change.
Eight children are asking a Seattle judge to find Washington
state in contempt for failing to adequately protect them and
future generations from the harmful effects of climate change. A
King County Superior Court judge is hearing arguments Tuesday
afternoon in the case brought by the petitioners, between 12 and
16 years old, who allege the state has violated its duties to
take action to address climate change. The petitioners’ lawyer
says a state rule adopted in September to cap emissions from
large carbon polluters doesn’t do enough to protect young people.
They contend that the state is violating prior court orders by
not doing more.
http://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Young-activists-seek-tougher-action-on-climate-10630569.php


Deep sea coral faces climate change threat.
North Atlantic coral populations – key to supporting a variety of
sea life – are under threat from climate change, a study
suggests. Changes to winter weather conditions could threaten the
long-term survival of coral in the region, upsetting fragile
ecosystems that support an array of marine species, researchers
say. 
http://phys.org/news/2016-11-deep-sea-coral-climate-threat.html 

FUELS

Drill, Baby, Drill? Election Reignites Offshore-Oil Debate.
The controversy over drilling for oil in the Atlantic Ocean has
been reignited by the election of Donald Trump, and
environmentalists and coastal businesses say it could be the
first major fault line that divides them from the new president.
The Obama administration has moved to restrict access to offshore
oil drilling leases in the Atlantic, as well as off Alaska.
Commercial oil production has never happened off the East Coast –
and environmentalists consider that a major victory during
Obama’s tenure.
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_TRUMP_OFFSHORE_DRILLING?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT


EU considering halving crop-based biofuels by 2030: draft.
The European Commission is considering halving the maximum amount
of crop-based biofuels used in transport after 2020 over concerns
they increase rather than reduce carbon emissions, according to a
draft seen by Reuters. While they reduce reliance on fossil
fuels, crop-based biofuels are made from agricultural products
such as sugar or rapeseed oil that could otherwise be used for
human consumption or animal feed, leading to criticism that they
cause indirect changes in land use.
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-eu-energy-biofuels-idUSKBN13H1EA


RENEWABLE ENERGY

Canada speeds up transition to clean energy while Trump sees a
future for fossil fuels.
The government of Canada has announced that it is to accelerate
its investments in clean energy while, in the U.S.,
President-elect Donald Trump has backed cutting red tape for
fossil fuels. On Monday Catherine McKenna, Canada's minister for
environment and climate change, said that the country would speed
up the transition from traditional coal power to clean energy by
2030. In a news release, the Canadian government said the
acceleration of a coal power phase-out would improve air quality
and the health of Canadians.
http://www.cnbc.com/2016/11/22/canada-moves-to-clean-energy-trump-sees-a-future-for-fossil-fuels.html


Turkey Seeking Renewables Industry With Make-It-Here Rules.
Turkey is seeking to become a manufacturing hub for the
renewable-energy industry by implementing the world’s strictest
rules on local content. The nation that straddles the European
and Asian continents is opening itself to overseas investors in a
tender for utility-scale renewable energy contracts. Winners will
be required to build photovoltaic panels within Turkey.
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-11-22/turkey-seeking-renewable-energy-industry-with-make-it-here-rules


VEHICLES

Volkswagen Outlines Plans to Boost Profit, Push Into Electric
Cars.
Volkswagen AG’s namesake brand will make an aggressive push in
the U.S. and begin a concerted shift toward electric vehicles as
it looks to revive its brand and recharge its bottom line.
Herbert Diess, VW brand chief, presented his first detailed
strategy overview after a bruising year in which the company was
mired in a painful and expensive emissions cheating scandal and
after announcing plans last week to shed 30,000 jobs world-wide
over the next few years.
http://www.wsj.com/articles/volkswagen-namesake-brand-outlines-multi-year-profit-boosting-strategy-1479810247


Electric Cars Are About to Dent Global Gasoline Consumption.
Gasoline is like some kind of drug: we know it’s bad for the
planet, but we just can’t give it up. Now a number of voices from
the energy industry suggest that our addiction could begin to
ease, thanks to the rise of electric cars. In fact, demand for
passenger vehicle gas may fall by 2020. A new forecast by the
International Energy Agency claims that global gasoline
consumption for passenger vehicles will decrease in the next five
years. The decline is predicted to be pretty modest: according to
Bloomberg, the agency reckons that global consumption will fall
from 23 million barrels of gas per day last year to 22.8 million
barrels a day by 2020. 
https://www.technologyreview.com/s/602956/electric-cars-are-about-to-dent-global-gasoline-consumption/





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