[GWSG] Financial risks of delay; FR solar roads; post-Scalia; pressures for Paris; bayou refugees; 17 govs.; risky oil

[Tilley, Al]

1.  A board set up by the EU to monitor financial risks has warned that transitioning to renewable energy too weakly or too late would maximize the financial dislocation, and asks for risk disclosures and stress tests to guard against the effects of delay.  http://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2016/feb/12/climate-risks-could-wreak-havoc-on-financial-markets-eu-watchdog-warns



2.  France intends to top 1,000 km of road with solar panels in the next five years, producing enough power for 8% of the population.  http://climatecrocks.com/2016/02/14/solar-roadway-in-france-for-real/



3.  Judge Antonin Scalia's death means that the Paris agreement is less likely to be undermined by our Supreme Court.  http://www.climatecentral.org/news/what-scalias-death-means-for-climate-change-20033?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+climatecentral%2FdjOO+Climate+Central+-+Full+Feed  More thoughts on the future of climate mitigation post-Scolia:  http://climatecrocks.com/2016/02/16/while-politics-swirls-clean-power-keeps-on/



4.  Public health concerns and economic pressures toward energy conversion are providing an impetus for the Paris agreement which will cushion the impact of fossilized politics in the US.  http://www.climatechangenews.com/2016/02/15/why-the-paris-climate-deal-doesnt-depend-on-the-us/



5.  The 360 members of the Isle de Jean Charles band of the Biloxi-Chitimacha-Choctaw, descendants of pre-contact residents of southern Louisiana, have become the first climate refugees in the lower 48 states.  Some people in the eleven-minute documentary declare resistance to moving.  http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2016/2/15/1485411/-Isle-de-Jean-Charles-Band-of-Biloxi-Chitimacha-Indians-become-the-first-official-Climate-Refugees?detail=email



6.  A bipartisan group of seventeen governors representing about 40% of the US population has signed an accord to accelerate the energy transition.  http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/feb/16/us-states-renewable-energy-green-economy



7.  A Deloitte study warns that about a third of oil producers are at high risk of bankruptcy this year.  http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-shale-bankruptcy-idUSKCN0VP0O6?feedType=RSS&feedName=businessNews  ?

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