- France is on the right track for energy security with its ongoing energy transition efforts, the International Energy Agency declared
- The U.S. Department State this week announced a payment of $500 million to the U.N.’s Green Climate Fund.
- Chinese President Xi Jinping during the World Economic Forum annual meeting this week warned President Donald Trump against pulling the U.S. out of the Paris Agreement on climate.
- NASA and NOAA this week declared 2016 the hottest year on record, keeping with a three year trend of record breaking years.
- S. power sector carbon emissions in 2016 fell before transportation sector emissions for the first time, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration.
