Election boost for carbon markets 📈

Environmentalists fear the incoming administration of U.S. president-elect Donald Trump will undo efforts to slow the pace of climate change.
    
But Washington State voters sent a different message with their support for a carbon market, which you can read about below. I'm also including links to a story on how at least some oil companies want the U.S. to remain in the Paris climate agreement, and to our coverage from the ongoing U.N. climate summit in Baku, Azerbaijan.

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A rare bright spot for environmentalists in last week's U.S. election results came in Washington State, where voters easily defeated an attempt to end the state's carbon market by a margin of 62% to 38%.
    
Analysts said the result was in line with widespread interest in the structures in the European Union, California and China that allow investors to put a price on emissions.

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