Ed King
@ed-king.bsky.social
Tracking international climate diplomacy since 2010 - sign up to monthly / COP briefings here: https://tinyurl.com/48drcph2
Hitting (and shanking) a few balls on the range this morning and overheard two old boys in the next bay... 'El Nino bad this year' 'Getting worse' 'Too hot for Spain now - we'll go in May' 'Not this hot in 1976 - I got married then' More folks care / are worried than we think.
'The trend lines are hard to ignore. RE’s share of India’s electricity mix has moved from single digits to a steady 35-40% within a few years' shreyajai.substack.c...
How a key #climate bank found an extra $4bn to finance new projects... potential lessons for other MDBs here... www.linkedin.com/pul...
'Australia’s #climate double game is a betrayal of the Pacific' - searing critique of Canberra's #COP31 plans (or lack of them) from @BillHareClimate backchannel1.substac...
Blimey - even Trump is now telling Carney he needs to be better on #climate... www.reuters.com/busi...
Nuts, via @UNCTAD 'average tariffs on goods related to renewable energy production are roughly twice as high as those for fossil fuels. Average tariffs on these goods range from approximately 2.5 per cent in Asia and Oceania to 7.1 per cent in Africa' unfccc.int/sites/def...
Quite a stat - 75% of Indian citizens polled by IPsos are confident the country 'can meet all of our future electricity demand by investing more in renewable energy alone' resources.ipsos.com/...
Local Primary school in Oxfordshire issued a plea to parents yesterday for fans 'for use in classrooms and shared areas during the day' - a lot of UK schools at +30C are not happy places to be right now.
Trains last 30 years, as do lots of other things. Either we invest now, or we will get burned. www.ft.com/content/b9ed...
Eurostar orders trains to cope with 55C ‘Saudi’ summers
Amended contract follows heatwaves across UK and western Europe
ft.com
Just a story about wildfires impacting one of the world's top sporting events in @BBCSport. A line explaining that these are more likely due to #climate would prob not go amiss.
Tour de France 2026: Fans urged not to attend end of third stage because of wildfires
Tour de France fans are urged not to attend the end of the third stage because of wildfires in the south of France.
bbc.co.uk
In years to come, pub quiz masters will ask who the player was in Mexico who got a yellow card and then broke his arm in a game he didn’t actually play in...
Oddly moving obit to an iceberg in @TheEconomist... (obviously it's not really about the iceberg, natch)
'93% of Filipinos believe that rising electricity demand makes affordable rooftop solar necessary' www.pna.gov.ph/artic...
Really helpful this... where do the UN secretary general candidates stand on #climate change?
Q&A: Where do the UN secretary general candidates stand on climate change? - Carbon Brief
Carbon Brief looks at the UN secretary general candidates’ views on climate change.
carbonbrief.org
RENEWABLES: They're still wildly popular with the British public, not that you'd realise from news coverage * Only 4% are opposed Even for wind/solar farms in your local area, opposition is very low * 74/68% would either be happy to have a local solar/wind farm, or don't care
Who's saying what on fossil fuel roadmaps pre #COP31. We read the UN submissions (yes, v exciting) so you don't have to... that & more on #COP31 and @WorldBankGroup bending the knee to President Trump... climatediplobrief.su...
I think I might pay a little more attention to the 'reform the Bretton Woods institutions' crew from now on...
World Bank drops climate finance target under US pressure
Donor and client nations lobbied against concession to Trump administration’s ‘voodoo science’
ft.com
Russia submission to UN: 'a rapid transition away from fossil fuels could heighten energy insecurity, deepen energy poverty, and lead to substantial job losses' - remarkably similar to some Reform / Conservative attack lines in UK... unfccc.int/sites/def...
"From 1875 to 1878, concurrent droughts in Asia, Brazil, and Africa, referred to as the Great Drought, caused widespread crop failures, catalyzing the Global Famine, which had fatalities exceeding 50 million people and long-lasting societal consequences." journals.ametsoc.org/view/journal...
Top UK life hack: never get a X-country train in a heatwave. Unless you want to sweat down your body weight...
Western countries are worried about meeting rising power demand. Meanwhile, China is adding a Germany's worth each year... "China expects annual increase in power demand of 600 TWh in the next five years -- more than Germany produces in a year. That compares to 570 TWh over the past five years."
Trains into Paddington having to be 'talked through' a signal failiure meaning they're now all crawling into London. Might be extreme heat, might not be. We were already going slow because of hot rails... at 930am! Our reslience to extreme heat ain't great. Still, blame net zero.
Reducing the reliance on AC to keep houses in London cool is a *good thing* Policies to precent London becoming an even hotter urban heat island are a *good thing* There is no AC ban... but yeah the UK is getting hotter (guess why that is)
'Since 2010, non-fossil energy sources have accounted for 74 percent of all newly added capacity nationwide... share of total installed renewable energy capacity jumped from 24 percent in 2010 to 61 percent by May' www.chinadaily.com.c...
