Gareth Redmond-King
International lead Energy & Climate Intelligence Unit (@eciu.bsky.social) | trustee Action for Refugees in Lewisham | ex-WWF & civil service | views my own | born @ 332ppm CO2 | he/him | 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
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- Marina Hyde on 'what this means for Starmer etc': "How about the biggest and grimmest question: what it means for women and girls to be able to clearly see that we live in a world where so many of the richest and most powerful men alive are just not bothered enough by their exploitation. Or worse."
- "The challenge that we face is about helping people sustain their livelihoods in the face of a changing climate ... We have to really shift this inverse relationship where the poorer and more exposed you are to climate change, the less money you get for climate adaptation."
- Greenland/US collaborations - including on better understanding the growing threat from melting of the Greenland ice sheet - in jeopardy as a result of US threats to Greenland and Denmark. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
- Yet another reason the US is unwise to be pulling out of Paris and rolling back on renewables and climate action: extreme weather, gas vulnerabilities, and soaring demand (including AI data centres) threaten power blackouts. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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- 'Threats will increase': Intelligence chiefs warn biodiversity collapse threatens UK national security www.businessgreen.com/news/4524541...
- Pick up the nearest book. Turn to page 42 and post the second sentence. “Good for him, thought Malcolm, but no one talked about it or wondered aloud what had happened to him.”
- Lt Gen Richard Nugee “I'm not the first general to say that to keep this country safe you ned to work abroad...to reduce threats that are coming to this country. Cutting the overseas aid budget has had a detrimental effect on our ability to [do that]...Overseas aid builds understanding & resilience”
- Reposted by Gareth Redmond-KingImagine! How could wind and solar ever compete with fossil fuel electricity across an entire year, across an entire block of 450 million people!?😉
- "You never see a wind farm in China" says some wag at Davos... China had a total solar/wind capacity of 1,400 GW at end 2024, according to Ember; China's NEA suggested wind amounted to 521 GW of that. The US EIA suggested they had 150 GW of wind as at 2024, for comparison.
- Reposted by Gareth Redmond-King“World leaders try to pretend the USA is the same mostly reliable ally it always has been because it is crucial to Europe’s defence and security, and to our economies. Acknowledging this is no longer the case means we need to respond to the changed world. Denial is comforting, and much easier.”
- "No global initiative can hope to command wide support or be seen as legitimate if it is merely elites agreeing how to balance their power...We need to reaffirm for a new generation the need for equality of opportunity and fairness of outcomes" + freedom "of speech & worship, from want & from fear"
- Before anyone gets excited about a number like this falling.... (a) it fell because, unusually, no hurricane hit the US mainland, where damage tends to cost a lot, and (b) $224 billion is still a LOT of money to need to spend on climate losses; equivalent to 2.5x UK defence spending last year.
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- "A huge 89% majority of the world’s people want stronger action to fight the climate crisis, studies have shown, but are trapped in a self-fulfilling 'spiral of silence' because they mistakenly believe they are in a minority." www.theguardian.com/environment/...
- Climate change busy disproving the Trump regime's claims that it isn't real, as they tear down globally-respected climate science institutions: "rates of coastal sea-level rise in the US have doubled in the past 125 years" and "present-day rates are well above the historical average".
- Yes, your chocolate orange IS smaller - and it's because impacts driven by climate change, at home and around the world, are driving up the prices of ingredients: cocoa, sugar and milk in particular. www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
- Slightly obsessed with "the most important chart in British politics", explaining everything since the financial crisis - posted by @stephenkb.bsky.social in his excellent newsletter. Click on the link to be able to cycle between indicators in the chart; it is very stark. www.ft.com/content/704c...
- How heartwarming. Streeting and Badenoch in lockstep on hatred and persecution of trans people. 🤮 www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...
- Happy 10th birthday to the Paris Agreement. It has driven national policy signals from governments such that 83% of GDP is now covered by net zero targets, growing clean energy markets that have broken the link between emissions & economic growth, as emissions growth has slowed fivefold.
- The once-rigid link between economic growth and carbon emissions is breaking across the vast majority of the world, according to a study released ahead of Friday’s 10th anniversary of the Paris climate agreement. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
- Reposted by Gareth Redmond-King🔴 REVEALED 🔴 The Institute of Economic Affairs – the anti-state, anti-climate pressure group that "incubated" Liz Truss – was bankrolled by oil giants and Rupert Murdoch’s media empire. 📝 Exclusive findings from @desmog.com 👇
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- Day 12 - and the actual last day - of #COP30. Apologies for a belated daily today - flights back to the UK etc. But also, it's all over! Read about it here: mailchi.mp/c5ed37ed4536... And sign up for next year(!) if you're not already signed up here: shorturl.at/LgPvT
- Day 11 at #COP30: fire inside COP and disruption to the talks - followed by weak texts overnight and a strong letter setting fossil fuel red lines. Read it here: mailchi.mp/591a9cdd17b4... Sign up here: shorturl.at/LgPvT We're here with the updates until the negotiations conclude.
- So, what SEEMS to have been agreed, at this late stage, on who will host COP31, given we're very nearly at the end of #COP30 in Belém, Brazil - and the Australia v Türkiye psychodrama has been quite the sideshow throughout the talks so far? www.youtube.com/watch?v=oDgR...
- Day 10 at #COP30 and we're at the waiting stage - texts promised, texts not arriving, bland texts, surprising texts, but mostly this morning no texts - and a hybrid set-up for COP31 with Australia and Türkiye. Read it here: mailchi.mp/fd9de8decdbc... Sign up here: shorturl.at/LgPvT
- It's day 9 at #COP30: endgame initiated early, but still with negotiating room shenanigans and plenty of areas still contested, with finance still more evident by its absence. Read more here: mailchi.mp/891b3b116e85... Sign up to the daily update here: shorturl.at/LgPvT
- Day 8 at #COP30 - Ministers urged to roll their sleeves up to get early agreement on a political package the presidency aims to conclude by tomorrow! Read it here: mailchi.mp/827f4fe1f265... Sign up here: shorturl.at/LgPvT
- Day 7 at #COP30: Ministers take up the reins with finance a key hurdle for a number of areas; and 70,000 marched in the streets of Belém on Saturday to remind leaders of the urgency. Read it here: mailchi.mp/cb3a08a9db71... Sign up here: shorturl.at/LgPvT
- Day 6 at #COP30: roadmaps, roadmaps everywhere, and yet no-one can find a way of sorting between Australia and Türkiye as hosts of COP31. Read it here: mailchi.mp/c7b5badd2ed8... Sign up here: shorturl.at/LgPvT
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- Day 5 at #COP30. Collective therapy, coffee, Colombian leadership, and the end of week one looms. Read it here: mailchi.mp/102613ea8944... Sign up here: shorturl.at/LgPvT
- Day 4 at #COP30. Flotillas, continuing consultations on contentious issues, new climate finance assessment, and tackling climate misinformation. Read it here: mailchi.mp/31e041d88939... Sign up here: shorturl.at/LgPvT
- Day three at #COP30 - protest, defence of sub-state action and multilateralism, and the second biggest COP (which despite some reporting, not only has a delegation from China, but they are the second biggest!) Read it here: mailchi.mp/6ed3acbcedaf... Sign up here: shorturl.at/LgPvT
- Day two at #COP30. Agenda fight averted - adaptation and adaptation finance emerging as key to progress in Belém - and new NDCs show progress delivered by Paris (though still way off for 1.5). Read it here: mailchi.mp/6406a42a6db7... Sign up here: mailchi.mp/d726dbb2e6f3...
- Day one at #COP30 in Belém, on the edge of the Amazon rainforest in Brazil. Read about what's happening and what lies ahead in the first of our daily updates: mailchi.mp/7f416b040259... Sign up here to get them in your inbox first thing (Brazil time), mid-morning (UK): mailchi.mp/d726dbb2e6f3...
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- This is a great explainer of the enshittification of Amazon - as an example of how it happens all over the internet. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
- "Milei’s true value lies in his demonstration of how the attention economy can propel the hard right into power. Like Farage and Trump, he is no creature of the party system but had come from economics and TV punditry." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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- "China’s announced climate targets may seem tepid. But beneath them is a bold wager: that steady action, powered by industrial strength and vision shielded from political volatility, will ultimately do more to contribute to the global climate effort than lofty, fickle promises ever could."
- On Wednesday in New York, countries lined up to say they would accelerate their efforts to cut greenhouse-gas emissions. In staying away, the U.S. was all but alone. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/24/c...
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- 'Gore said some countries were responding to US pressure with “greenhushing” ... However, he said trade threats as an “effective bullying tactic is going to be a diminishing asset for [Trump], because the rest of the world is just on to the fact that it’s nuts”.'
- The first of the two best pieces I’ve read on the Kirk murder so far. @moiradonegan.bsky.social in The Guardian. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
- One of the two best pieces I’ve read on the Kirk murder so far.
- "Staggering financial losses like this will only grow until we can stabilise the climate by reaching net zero emissions ... Across 2022 and 2023 climate change amounted to an extra £360 on the average UK household food bill."
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- This is the environment politicians have created: hostile not just to people seeking protection, but also to those who support these most vulnerable people. The far right have always done it; politicians who pander to their demands just give them what they want and make life worse for everyone else.
- There are no 'perks' to being in an asylum hotel - vulnerable people shoved into over-crowded places with little-to-nothing by way of basic services or support. They're certainly not experiencing anything like what paying guests might expect in a hotel. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
- Trump “literally rolled out the red carpet for a Russian dictator indicted for alleged war crimes over the abduction and transfer of thousands of Ukrainian children … In more than 100 countries, [he] would have been arrested the moment he set foot on the tarmac.”
- I mean, who doubted it? But it takes the dedication and hard work of the amazing Carbon Brief team to pull it all together and provide us with the receipts!
- Anyone following up on it should maybe take a little look at the water companies' leakage rates, and their record on building new reservoir infrastructure, before taking this at face value and just reporting it as bona fide advice.
- Here's how our emails and data use are NOT the solution to water shortages. (Read the second post, for the correction on the numbers, cos they go up!)
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- In the first half of 2025: 🇺🇸 emissions ⬆️ 4.2% 🇨🇳 emissions ⬇️ 2.7% ... compared to the first half of 2024. www.theenergymix.com/u-s-emission...
- Aviva stands by climate goals in face of US and UK net zero pushback - as insurer’s shares hit highest level since 2008, CEO says green issues are also important for many of its clients. 👏👏👏 www.theguardian.com/business/202...
- Have, in the past, read and enjoyed @susannahfisher.bsky.social's Substack - so look forward to dipping into her new book. I might go to Bookshop.org for it rather than Amazon though. uk.bookshop.org/p/books/sink...
