Gareth Redmond-King
@gredmondking.bsky.social
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 | 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
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!
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November 22, 2025 at 7:36 PM
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!
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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.
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November 21, 2025 at 10:49 AM
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.
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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.
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November 20, 2025 at 10:34 AM
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.
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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.
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November 19, 2025 at 11:07 AM
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.
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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!
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November 18, 2025 at 10:59 AM
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!
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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.
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November 17, 2025 at 11:16 AM
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.
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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.
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November 15, 2025 at 10:50 AM
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.
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Day 5 at #COP30. Collective therapy, coffee, Colombian leadership, and the end of week one looms.
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November 14, 2025 at 9:45 AM
Day 5 at #COP30. Collective therapy, coffee, Colombian leadership, and the end of week one looms.
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Day 4 at #COP30. Flotillas, continuing consultations on contentious issues, new climate finance assessment, and tackling climate misinformation.
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November 13, 2025 at 10:22 AM
Day 4 at #COP30. Flotillas, continuing consultations on contentious issues, new climate finance assessment, and tackling climate misinformation.
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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!)
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November 12, 2025 at 12:01 PM
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!)
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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...
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November 11, 2025 at 10:45 AM
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...
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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...
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November 10, 2025 at 10:00 AM
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This is so irresponsible: getting oddball voices to criticise health bodies for doing their job.
The fact is people die in extreme heat. In June/July heatwave, doctors estimated 2,300 deaths across 12 cities; 3x the level without climate change-driven extreme heat.
www.lshtm.ac.uk/newsevents/n...
The fact is people die in extreme heat. In June/July heatwave, doctors estimated 2,300 deaths across 12 cities; 3x the level without climate change-driven extreme heat.
www.lshtm.ac.uk/newsevents/n...
August 12, 2025 at 9:16 AM
This is so irresponsible: getting oddball voices to criticise health bodies for doing their job.
The fact is people die in extreme heat. In June/July heatwave, doctors estimated 2,300 deaths across 12 cities; 3x the level without climate change-driven extreme heat.
www.lshtm.ac.uk/newsevents/n...
The fact is people die in extreme heat. In June/July heatwave, doctors estimated 2,300 deaths across 12 cities; 3x the level without climate change-driven extreme heat.
www.lshtm.ac.uk/newsevents/n...
Nice to see @theguardian.com print my letter in response to Simon Jenkins’ ill-informed article about wind farms and net zero.
Net zero isn’t a woolly “political ambition” - it’s a scientific concept that is required to stop climate change.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Net zero isn’t a woolly “political ambition” - it’s a scientific concept that is required to stop climate change.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
July 17, 2025 at 9:02 AM
Nice to see @theguardian.com print my letter in response to Simon Jenkins’ ill-informed article about wind farms and net zero.
Net zero isn’t a woolly “political ambition” - it’s a scientific concept that is required to stop climate change.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Net zero isn’t a woolly “political ambition” - it’s a scientific concept that is required to stop climate change.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
On 15th June, I'm cycling 60 miles to raise money for @afrilcharity.bsky.social to give displaced kids access to healthy food & AFRIL's Rainbow Club Saturday school.
The @biggive.bsky.social will double all donations from now until midday on 17th June.
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June 8, 2025 at 11:47 AM
On 15th June, I'm cycling 60 miles to raise money for @afrilcharity.bsky.social to give displaced kids access to healthy food & AFRIL's Rainbow Club Saturday school.
The @biggive.bsky.social will double all donations from now until midday on 17th June.
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A @thetimes.com editorial yesterday suggested ditching the term ‘net zero’ in favour of ‘not quite zero’ instead…
To be fair to them, they did print a letter from me, commenting on that today though.
To be fair to them, they did print a letter from me, commenting on that today though.
May 2, 2025 at 8:28 AM
A @thetimes.com editorial yesterday suggested ditching the term ‘net zero’ in favour of ‘not quite zero’ instead…
To be fair to them, they did print a letter from me, commenting on that today though.
To be fair to them, they did print a letter from me, commenting on that today though.
I was thinking of subscribing to the New European recently, but then this email just arrived...
But does this mean she's left the Observer I wonder.
But does this mean she's left the Observer I wonder.
April 29, 2025 at 3:40 PM
I was thinking of subscribing to the New European recently, but then this email just arrived...
But does this mean she's left the Observer I wonder.
But does this mean she's left the Observer I wonder.
That the Telegraph report this as a 'warning' from US to UK is mindblowing. But Joyce said “There is no national or economic security without energy security, and energy security is not possible without access to secure, affordable and reliable access to energy”
That is an argument FOR renewables!
That is an argument FOR renewables!
April 25, 2025 at 9:29 AM
That the Telegraph report this as a 'warning' from US to UK is mindblowing. But Joyce said “There is no national or economic security without energy security, and energy security is not possible without access to secure, affordable and reliable access to energy”
That is an argument FOR renewables!
That is an argument FOR renewables!
Trans men are men. Trans women are women. Trans rights are human rights.
And there's no LGB without T. We've always fought for and defended rights together; none of this increasingly institutionalised hate should be allowed to put a cigarette paper between LGBTQIA+ people in standing against it.
And there's no LGB without T. We've always fought for and defended rights together; none of this increasingly institutionalised hate should be allowed to put a cigarette paper between LGBTQIA+ people in standing against it.
April 16, 2025 at 9:34 AM
Trans men are men. Trans women are women. Trans rights are human rights.
And there's no LGB without T. We've always fought for and defended rights together; none of this increasingly institutionalised hate should be allowed to put a cigarette paper between LGBTQIA+ people in standing against it.
And there's no LGB without T. We've always fought for and defended rights together; none of this increasingly institutionalised hate should be allowed to put a cigarette paper between LGBTQIA+ people in standing against it.
It’s not “highly unlikely”, because it’s already happened.
Here’s a lovely graphic from @beyondfossilfuels.bsky.social showing that 23 European countries have announced they will phase out coal, or have already done so. And those are just the ones in Europe
beyondfossilfuels.org/europes-coal...
Here’s a lovely graphic from @beyondfossilfuels.bsky.social showing that 23 European countries have announced they will phase out coal, or have already done so. And those are just the ones in Europe
beyondfossilfuels.org/europes-coal...
April 14, 2025 at 4:40 PM
It’s not “highly unlikely”, because it’s already happened.
Here’s a lovely graphic from @beyondfossilfuels.bsky.social showing that 23 European countries have announced they will phase out coal, or have already done so. And those are just the ones in Europe
beyondfossilfuels.org/europes-coal...
Here’s a lovely graphic from @beyondfossilfuels.bsky.social showing that 23 European countries have announced they will phase out coal, or have already done so. And those are just the ones in Europe
beyondfossilfuels.org/europes-coal...
This is an, ahem, interesting piece from Jawad Iqbal in today's Times: "Miliband has in the past boasted about the previous Labour government’s decision to phase out coal power… Miliband claimed other countries would follow “our example”. Really? It seems highly unlikely."
Here’s why he's wrong 🧵
Here’s why he's wrong 🧵
April 14, 2025 at 4:40 PM
This is an, ahem, interesting piece from Jawad Iqbal in today's Times: "Miliband has in the past boasted about the previous Labour government’s decision to phase out coal power… Miliband claimed other countries would follow “our example”. Really? It seems highly unlikely."
Here’s why he's wrong 🧵
Here’s why he's wrong 🧵
No, in a democracy, if you embezzle public funds, you should face prosecution and serious consequences if convicted. That's an actively good feature of a democracy, even - perhaps particularly - when the person nicking the money is a political leader!
www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...
www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...
March 31, 2025 at 10:59 AM
No, in a democracy, if you embezzle public funds, you should face prosecution and serious consequences if convicted. That's an actively good feature of a democracy, even - perhaps particularly - when the person nicking the money is a political leader!
www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...
www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...
March 27, 2025 at 11:50 AM
"Concentration of CO2 in the atmosphere is at its highest point in 800,000 years [and] 2024 was likely to have been the hottest year on record and the first to surpass 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels," says the UN.
So not quite the time to slow climate action...
www.ft.com/content/3691...
So not quite the time to slow climate action...
www.ft.com/content/3691...
March 19, 2025 at 10:28 AM
"Concentration of CO2 in the atmosphere is at its highest point in 800,000 years [and] 2024 was likely to have been the hottest year on record and the first to surpass 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels," says the UN.
So not quite the time to slow climate action...
www.ft.com/content/3691...
So not quite the time to slow climate action...
www.ft.com/content/3691...
Just when you think The S*n can't make itself sound more ridiculous, a demand that the ENTIRE WORLD ditch climate COPs - the process that's reduced likely global temperature rises from apocalyptic 4°C+, to nearly half that if everyone delivered on their pledges...
March 13, 2025 at 11:07 AM
Just when you think The S*n can't make itself sound more ridiculous, a demand that the ENTIRE WORLD ditch climate COPs - the process that's reduced likely global temperature rises from apocalyptic 4°C+, to nearly half that if everyone delivered on their pledges...