AT LEAST 40% GHG EMISSIONS CUT BY '30: EU PACT. From '90 levels. Target at least 27% clean/renewable power by EU, not individual countries. 27% increase in energy efficiency non-binding .... New Yorkers overwhelmingly support fracking moratorium, clean power: poll .... CO2 emissions from US power producers down 15% last 8 years .... 1/3 of global deforestation driven by intl trade: report .... LA suburb declared water emergency .... Oregon city plans to divest fossil fuel investments .... Sacramento agency revoked crude-by-rail permit .... HSBC joining Virgin Atlantic, Lanza Tech to develop low carbon jet fuel. Captures waste gases from steel mills, ferments it, chemically converts it to jetfuel. Flight within a year. Est. 1/2 carbon footprint v. fossil fuel. Process can work in 65% of world's steel mills. Cost comparable to fossil fuel, no engine mods needed .... Drought cut Brazil sugarcane harvest ~10%. Forced to import ethanol earlier than normal .... Sept US ethanol production lowest in 6 months .... BlueFire (BFRE) LOI from China Ex-Im Bank for up to $270M loan for Miss. project. (Stock has zoomed last 2 days.) .... Norwegian researchers producing biocrude from kelp .... Bio-based materials, chems could see $974M investment this year. Up 28% from '13 .... EU's biofuel supply chain sector demands '30 blending targets. (Um, the convention has gone home.) .... Norway researchers using less expensive raw materials (silicon) in smaller amounts with fewer production steps to lower cost of solar panels. Using silicon 1K x less pure, stretching silicon fibers coated in glass. Working with Clemson U. colleagues .... Canadian Solar (CSIQ) LOI for 200Mw solar project in China county with CNY2B investment .... Chevrolet partnering with 6 US universities to buy, retire their carbon credits from reducing GHG emissions .... DOE $53M to drive innovation, cut cost of solar. 40 projects .... NRG Energy completed 6.4Mw rooftop solar on MGM's Vegas Mandalay Bay Casino. Plans to build 2Mw more on convention center expansion .... Masdar (UAE) signed on to build 50Mw wind farm in Oman (Oman's 1st) for ~$125-200M. Online early '17 .... Atlantis Resources raised $8M from stock sale toward tidal power plant in Scotland. 1st phase ~86Mw. (They're going to need closer to $1B.) .... Wuxi Suntech (Shunfeng unit) to almost double solar module shipments this year - 1.5Gw - over '13 .... Southern buying 150Mw Cal solar project from First Solar (FSLR). Online this quarter. San Diego G&E PPA .... Greencoat UK Wind raised 125M Pounds .... Energy Development corp secured $315M for 150Mw wind farm .... Quantum 39Mw wind project approval upheld .... Quebec wind tender submission deadline delayed .... Pacific Ocean warmer than usual. But El Nino projected to be weak .... Australia, Indonesia, S Korea skipped launch of Asia "World Bank". China, 20 others in .... Boeing selling parts to Iran Air. 1st time since '79. (What's up with that?) .... Al Qaeda leader pleading ISIS spare American hostage .... (Have a good, safe, happy weekend, pards.)