Ed King
@ed-king
Tracking international climate diplomacy since 2010 - sign up to monthly / COP briefings here:
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...
Turkey is [oddly?] advertising the #COP31 summit during UEFA @ChampionsLeague qualifiers... evidently betting on the immense #climate ambition at the @FIFAWorldCup...
'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...
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.
Oddly moving obit to an iceberg in @TheEconomist... (obviously it's not really about the iceberg, natch)
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...
Top UK life hack: never get a X-country train in a heatwave. Unless you want to sweat down your body weight...
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)
'The transition is anchored in a decisive shift towards electricity and non-fossil energy' - policy think tank of the Government of India outlining how new, better energy sources are at the heart of 2047 Viksit Bharat - worth a read (from Feb 2026) niti.gov.in/sites/de...
Excluded from #climate funds, a battered Afghanistan is suffering, writes @Sayedmuhammad65 backchannel1.substac...
'If the world’s top emitters continue blindly down this course, they are complicit in undermining efforts to limit overshoot of our 1.5°C goal' - small island states @AOSISChair pre UN #climate talks in Bonn... directed at non-present US & China, EU, India, Russia, Japan...
Just triathlon legend @jonny_brownlee finishing his 10th @BlenheimTri sprint in 2 days... chatting away and not looking remotely tired
Appalling Henry Nowak murder + aftermath has exposed (as Fraser Nelson covered in @thetimes) how social media disinfo quickly distorts a story... compare judge's sentencing remarks on 1 June with how this story is being pushed by far right. Extraordinary. www.judiciary.uk/wp-...
Turns out major oil shocks lead to oil demand destruction... www.bloomberg.com/gr...
'Around USD 2.2 trillion is expected to be spent on renewables, nuclear, grids, storage, low-emissions fuels, efficiency and electrification, nearly twice as much as is going to oil, natural gas and coal.' iea.blob.core.window...