GLOBAL WATER DEMAND WILL EXCEED ITS REPLENISHMENT 40% BY '30 if current use trends continue: UN report. 80M new people/yr lately. Population now 7.3B. Ag uses ~70% of water globally, up to 90% in least-developed countries .... Extreme weather records for US east, west coasts recently: NOAA .... Arctic sea ice hit record low winter peak this year .... MIT scientist links Cyclone Pam to global warming climate change .... Emissions down 3.7% in EU carbon trading system with new clean/renewable power use, less coal power .... China new financial boost for alternative fuel vehicles .... German wholesale power prices fluttered with eclipse today. Utility operators went overtime to keep grid supplied .... Farming Africa's wet savannahs would have high climate cost: study .... Iowa gets over 27% of its energy from wind power. S Dakota 26%. Kansas 19% .... EVs can make cities cooler, healthier: study. (Especially with clean power sources for charging.) .... US on track to break '70 oil production record .... At least 80% difference in GHG emissions/bl between worst, best crude oils. Alberta tar sands worst, Kazakhstan oil best .... Brit rescue of N Sea oil/gas producers. 1 tax reduced to 20% from 30%, another for older fields down to 35% from 50%. Could boost UK oil/gas production 15%, incentivize 4B Pound investment .... Saud Jan oil exports highest in 9 mo to 7.47Mb/d .... Turkey broke ground on $10B natgas pipeline from Azerbaijan. Expected to supply Europe with 31BCM/yr .... 13.5M Brit households could save up to 2.7B Pounds - 200 Pounds/yr/house - by switching power suppliers .... Stion completed 100Kw rooftop solar at Cal beverage distribution center .... 2-comp JV to build 1B baht 10Mw waste-to-power plant in Thailand .... Jinko Solar supplying 75Mw for hedge fund AZ project. Jinko signed 750Mw up in US so far this year. Opening $100M factory in Malaysia in May to avoid US, Europe duties .... National Australia Bank issued $159M of bonds to finance 71Mw of wind power. US investors. NAB offered A$300M climate change bonds in Dec. (Despite govt head-in-sand position.) .... Vestas 122Mw order from Sweden. 1Q16 delivery, online 2Q16. Vestas over 1Gw sales in 1Q15 .... Scotland began $112M program for low-carbon infrastructure like home heating, transportation improvements. 33M Pounds from Euro Regional Development Fund .... US oil export ban limits geopolitical influence, affects cred on free trade arguments on rise. (US may tweak or stop the ban.) .... Innovative solar tariff in Singapore. (I guess details coming.) .... Cal Propel stations debuted cost-competitive biodiesel using Neste oil from waste, residue .... Hawaii committing to B20 .... DOT pipeline rules amended to include ethanol as hazardous .... Biofuels must be sustainability certified to get S Africa Climate Bond funds. Minimum 60% GHG emissions reduction .... Oil lobby suing EPA for "ignoring" duty to issue '14, '15 RFS .... Malaysia to reintro crude palm oil 4.5% export tax in April. Indonesia expected to follow. Indonesia may go to B15, though, to support palm oil .... US final rule for drilling, fracking on Fed land. Frac Focus in, waste pits out .... US defense officials put climate threat on par with terrorism threat .... Gates Foundation $1.4B stake in fossil fuel investments at issue .... Beijing closed another coal power plant.