Gareth Redmond-King's latest posts

I’ve been head of climate and energy at WWF-UK since late November 2016. We talked about the Government’s ‘emissions reduction plan’ in my interview for the job; it was late, even then.  It was, at that time, expected before Christmas.  Then ‘early in the new year’, then ‘in the first quarter’ – which could have […]

History teaches us, over and over again, that when we’re faced with big challenges, we need good leaders to help us through them.  Challenges don’t come on a much bigger scale for Planet Earth – and every living thing on it – than climate change.  So do our leaders have the vision, ambition and stature […]

Barely two months into his presidency, French president Emmanuel Macron continues to throw down the gauntlet on tackling climate change. Having banned new oil and gas exploration, his government has now set 2050 as the year by which France will be carbon neutral.  This is genuine ambition, announced as 19 world leaders lined up against […]

So, despite the efforts of world leaders, despite the case made by his own Secretary of State (a former fossil fuel company boss), his Defence Secretary and, we understand, his own daughter, and despite pleas from US businesses, Donald Trump is withdrawing the US from the Paris Agreement. The fightback, however, is already on… Stepping […]

Every new year, when I tell myself that I’m going to lose weight, drink less, or (this year) eat less meat, I know that it won’t happen on the basis of willpower alone.  If I set rules – tell myself how I’m going to do it – then I’m much more likely actually to achieve […]

Well it’s been a pretty significant few weeks. Nine months after the vote on EU membership, the war of words is over and the formal exit proceedings have started. It’s quite the moment for reflection, when you realise just how many of us were born into Britain the European Union member state – or were […]