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Posted: 19 Nov 2015 14:56:47
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UN CLIMATE TALKS

China expects consensus to be reached at Paris talks.
China expects world leaders at upcoming climate talks in Paris to
be able to reach consensus, the country's climate change special
representative Xie Zhenhua said on Thursday, adding Beijing wants
a legally binding treaty.
http://af.reuters.com/article/commoditiesNews/idAFL3N13E1NU20151119


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http://washpost.bloomberg.com/Story?docId=1376-NY1R8T6JTSEE01-23AA0ICKH88DVMOTJ5HGD0OSVI


Courting business, Obama presses for climate action in Asia.
Aggressive action to fight climate change will be a boon for
businesses in Asia and beyond, President Barack Obama is
asserting as he reaches for a global climate change agreement he
hopes will burnish his environmental legacy.
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/A/AS_OBAMA_CLIMATE?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT


Britain Calls for Closing of Coal-Fired Power Plants by 2025.
The British government on Wednesday called for the closing of all
coal-fired power plants in the country by 2025, and proposed that
use of the plants be restricted two years before that. The move,
announced in advance of the United Nations conference on climate
change set to open in Paris on Nov. 30, appeared aimed at showing
Britain as a leader in reducing carbon dioxide emissions.
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/19/business/energy-environment/britain-to-close-coal-fired-power-stations-by-2025.html


France, UN: Climate finance must ramp up.
French president Francois Hollande met UN secretary-general Ban
Ki-moon yesterday to discuss ways to ensure an ambitious outcome
of the Cop 21 climate change conference in Paris in December.
Talks on the deal will resume at the end of this month, with only
10 official negotiating days before the Paris meeting begins, and
amid concerns that too many issues remain undecided.
http://www.argusmedia.com/News/Article?id=1093526 

CLIMATE CHANGE

Brazil carbon emissions dip overall, but most sectors show
increases.
Brazil's greenhouse gas emissions fell 0.9 percent in 2014,
according to a network of local environmental organizations,
which expressed concern that only one sector, though a large one,
showed a decline. The drop last year to 1.558 billion tonnes of
carbon dioxide equivalent (CO2e) resulted solely because Brazil
managed to reduce deforestation after a spike in 2013, the
Climate Observatory said in a report released on Thursday.
http://af.reuters.com/article/energyOilNews/idAFL8N13E36W20151119


Senators Revive Financing Tactic From ’70s for Carbon Emissions.
For years, power companies, manufacturers and entrepreneurs have
tried to make capturing and storing carbon emissions from
industrial operations like burning coal into a business, to
little avail. Despite decades of promising research,
demonstration projects and government investment, large-scale
developments have often proved too difficult and costly to get
off the ground. But now two senators think they have hit on a way
to move the industry forward. 
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/19/business/energy-environment/senators-revive-financing-tactic-from-70s-for-carbon-emissions.html?_r=0


Runaway global warming becomes a concern as permafrost melts.
Northwest Territories -- In a fragile landscape where footsteps
leave an imprint for years, Jennifer Baltzer stood and surveyed
the surrounding bog of green sphagnum moss. Black spruce trees
tilted here and there like drunkards. Using a metal rod, Baltzer,
an ecologist with Wilfrid Laurier University in Waterloo,
Ontario, pierced the ground near a spruce.
http://www.eenews.net/stories/1060028256

Bad Credit is Making Global Warming Worse.
Bad credit now threatens the international effort to limit carbon
emissions. At the Paris climate conference next month,
policymakers will pledge massive rollouts of wind and solar. But
the issue of financing is mostly addressed as an afterthought.
You can’t end global warming by decree; you need money, lots of
it. If renewable energy is to grow on a scale anywhere close to
what’s required, rich countries need to guarantee solar and wind
bonds in the developing world. It is in the developing world
where most of the additional carbon released into the atmosphere
will come from.
http://fortune.com/2015/11/19/global-climtate-sumit-paris-climate-change/


The Forgotten U.N. Climate Goal: 1.5°C.
While much of the attention on a historic Paris climate meeting
in the coming weeks will focus on the confounding task of trying
to keep global warming below 2°C, or 3.6°F, a battle over another
goal — one that has been forgotten by many — will be playing out
in the negotiating halls. Delegates representing island states
and others whose homelands are most threatened by rising seas
will be pushing for the formal adoption of a long-overlooked
goal, one that limits warming to less than 1.5°C, or 2.7°F.
http://www.climatecentral.org/news/the-forgotten-un-climate-goal-19701?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+climatecentral%2FdjOO+Climate+Central+-+Full+Feed

VOLKWAGEN 

Volkswagen Says 120,000 U.S. Diesel Owners Will Get Gift Cards,
Repairs.
Volkswagen of America said on Wednesday that 120,000 owners of
diesel cars that have violated U.S. emission standards will
receive $500 gift cards and $500 toward vehicle repairs. Last
week, Volkswagen said it was offering a $500 prepaid Visa gift
card, a separate card good for $500 toward services at a VW
dealerships and free 24-hour roadside assistance for three years.
In total, that could mean at least $120 million in benefits to
the participating owners.
http://www.nytimes.com/reuters/2015/11/19/business/19reuters-volkswagen-usa.html

FUELS

DOE to issue funding opportunity for up to $35M for hydrogen and
fuel cell technologies RD&D.
The US Department of Energy (DOE) announced that it will issue a
Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) entitled “Hydrogen and
Fuel Cell Technologies Research, Development, and Demonstrations”
(No. DE-FOA-0001412). This FOA will provide funding to meet the
DOE’s Fuel Cell Technologies Office’s (FCTO’s) goals for hydrogen
production and delivery, hydrogen storage, fuel cell
technologies, technology validation, manufacturing, and analysis
programs.
http://www.greencarcongress.com/2015/11/20151118-doe.html 

Gasoline Most Expensive Over Oil as Refinery Profit Increases.
Gasoline at the pump hasn’t been so expensive against its raw
material, crude oil, since at least 2004. Regular gasoline in the
U.S. has averaged $1.13 a gallon more than Brent crude, the
global benchmark, so far in 2015, according to data compiled by
Bloomberg based on AAA prices and Brent futures. That’s almost 20
cents a gallon higher than the average in the past 10 years.
http://washpost.bloomberg.com/Story?docId=1376-NXCTQS6KLVRJ01-1QJOMIB6RACC9CN647OFDK2AVL

Proof-of-principle of cost-effective methane cracking technology
for H2 production without CO2; 50% cleaner than SMR, comparable
to electrolysis.
Researchers of the Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies
(IASS) in Potsdam and the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)
have achieved the proof-of-principle for a innovative technique
to extract hydrogen (H2) from methane (CH4) without the formation
of CO2 as a byproduct. At this stage, cost estimates are
uncertain, since methane cracking is not yet a fully mature
technology. However, preliminary calculations show that it could
achieve costs of €1.9 to €3.3 per kilogram of hydrogen at German
natural gas prices—without taking the market value of the solid
black carbon byproduct of the process into consideration.
http://www.greencarcongress.com/2015/11/20151119-iass.html

VEHICLES

Geely Auto Seeks 90% Sales From New-Energy Vehicles by 2020.
About two-thirds of Geely’s new-energy vehicle sales will come
from plug-in hybrids and gasoline-electric hybrids by the end of
the decade, with the remaining from battery-electric vehicles,
the company said on Wednesday. China has a deadline requiring
automakers to lower average fuel consumption across their models
from 6.9 liters per 100 kilometers this year to no more than 5
liters/100 km by 2020.
http://washpost.bloomberg.com/Story?docId=1376-NXY8026JIJUQ01-4FB1UFFRPSJFN21M35PP4D5ONH


Army tests fuel cell Chevy Colorado.
Can a pickup truck powered by a fuel cell endure the rigors of
military missions? Over the next 12 months, General Motors and
the U.S. Army Tank Automotive Research, Development & Engineering
Center (TARDEC) will deploy a Chevrolet Colorado, equipped with a
hydrogen fuel cell propulsion system where is will be exposed to
daily military use.
http://www.freep.com/story/money/cars/general-motors/2015/11/19/army-tests-fuel-cell-chevy-colorado/76013596/


GM, TARDEC to modify Chevy Colorado to run on hydrogen.
General Motors Co. said Thursday that the automaker and the U.S.
Army Tank Automotive Research, Development & Engineering Center
(TARDEC) are altering a Chevy Colorado pickup to run on hydrogen
fuel cells and will test the vehicle in extreme military use for
a year. GM said it would announce more details on the vehicle and
timing later.
http://www.detroitnews.com/story/business/autos/general-motors/2015/11/19/gm-tardec-modify-chevy-colorado-run-hydrogen/76038668/


Free Electric-Car Charging For Ford C-Max Energi Owners (For 3
Years).
Charging an electric car is already much cheaper than paying for
gasoline, but free charging can be even more attractive. Tesla
offers its free network of Supercharger DC fast-charging stations
and Level 2 AC stations, and Nissan has offered free charging as
a promotion to drive showroom traffic. Now, Ford is jumping on
the free-charging bandwagon with its EV 1-2-3 Charge card.
http://www.greencarreports.com/news/1101050_free-electric-car-charging-for-ford-c-max-energi-owners-for-3-years


ROEV Association forms to promote public EV charging
interoperability.
Automakers, electric vehicle charging networks and other
stakeholders have joined together to create the ROEV Association
(ROEV), a neutral collaboration of industry stakeholders designed
to support EV adoption by facilitating public charging network
interoperability. Initial automaker members include BMW of North
America, Nissan, Honda and Audi; the three largest charging
networks in the US—CarCharging/Blink, ChargePoint, and NRG
EVgo—are also participating.
http://www.greencarcongress.com/2015/11/roev-association-forms-to-promote-public-ev-charging-interoperability.html


GREEN ENERGY

Europe sees 2 major moves toward reliance on renewable energy.
Enel SpA, the biggest utility in Italy and among the biggest in
Europe, is buying out the minority shareholders of its renewable
energy business, Enel Green Power. The company called the
consolidation "beneficial," predicting it will reduce the
volatility of producing electricity, smooth out grid connections
and take advantage of the "acceleration in the pace of growth in
the renewable business." The firm announced that it had approved
the purchase in a statement yesterday as part of its corporate
plan for the next four years.
http://www.eenews.net/stories/1060028272 

Why many states are panicked by the federal clean power plan.
The four huge power plants that stand smoking in Colstrip, Mont.,
don't just employ hundreds of workers. They pay property taxes
that allow the city of some 2,000 people to afford services other
remote, rural communities lack, such as a parks and recreation
department. The electricity-generating plants consume almost all
the coal mined at the Rosebud Mine, the second-largest coal mine
in Montana. When the mine removes - or "severs" - coal from the
earth, the mining company pays the state a severance tax on the
value of the coal. 
http://www.sacbee.com/news/news-services/article45355305.html 

MISCELLANEOUS

One of 10 Things: New generation hybrid.
Where's a hydrogen fueling station when you need one?
Granted, we're enjoying the (relatively) low gasoline prices of
late. But we can't help anticipating the day when we "gas up" on
hydrogen, one of the few alternate energy sources packing enough
punch to compete with fossil fuels as a vehicle fuel.
http://www.bakersfield.com/News/2015/11/18/One-of-15.html 

OPINION

Joel Fox: Imaging California without oil – two different
perspectives. A week ago, Zocalo Public Square published an
article, Imagining California Without Oil Refineries, by one of
its editors, Lisa Margonelli, suggesting that Californians are
embracing new technology that will lead to an oil free future.
Meanwhile, the California Resources Corporation (CRC), a publicly
traded oil and natural gas exploration and production company,
produced a website also asking Californians to imagine the state
without oil. The two imaginings could not have been more apart.
http://www.foxandhoundsdaily.com/2015/11/imagining-california-without-oil-two-different-perspectives/
 


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