Bronwyn Hayward
@bmhayward.bsky.social
NZ professor at Uni of Canterbury, NZ, political scientist: youth, climate, sustainability, democracy, urban resilience (IPCC author/co-ordinating author AR6)
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Bronwyn Hayward
@bmhayward.bsky.social
· Sep 22
we can not wait to welcome you to an historic world climate meeting- the biggest Aotearoa NZ ever held in our history - in person and online - and it’s on in just 3 weeks! #af2025 #adaptation #climateChange adaptationfutures2025.com
NZ national’s had a ‘deplorables’ moment. While bottom feeders’ should have haunted National but hasn’t (because poor & vulnerable communities are not the focus of this particular govt) calling the actions of middle class communities supporting Triti in schools, ‘disgusting’ will haunt them #nzpol
November 26, 2025 at 10:06 PM
NZ national’s had a ‘deplorables’ moment. While bottom feeders’ should have haunted National but hasn’t (because poor & vulnerable communities are not the focus of this particular govt) calling the actions of middle class communities supporting Triti in schools, ‘disgusting’ will haunt them #nzpol
today the NZ climate minister implied because we signed up to transition away from fossil fuel agreement back in 2023 we didn’t need to join the 83 countries including the UK, Ireland, and the Pacific wanting to put this into action at cop 30 -leaving NZ on the side of oil states blocking action
November 24, 2025 at 8:16 AM
today the NZ climate minister implied because we signed up to transition away from fossil fuel agreement back in 2023 we didn’t need to join the 83 countries including the UK, Ireland, and the Pacific wanting to put this into action at cop 30 -leaving NZ on the side of oil states blocking action
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The #COP30 Presidency’s Mutirão consultations quickly descended into turmoil, with groups diverging on whether to address the issue of fossil fuel phaseout, among others
They continued consulting into the night (1/2)
Read ➡️ enb.iisd.org/belem-un-cli...
#climate #climatechange
They continued consulting into the night (1/2)
Read ➡️ enb.iisd.org/belem-un-cli...
#climate #climatechange
November 22, 2025 at 1:13 AM
The #COP30 Presidency’s Mutirão consultations quickly descended into turmoil, with groups diverging on whether to address the issue of fossil fuel phaseout, among others
They continued consulting into the night (1/2)
Read ➡️ enb.iisd.org/belem-un-cli...
#climate #climatechange
They continued consulting into the night (1/2)
Read ➡️ enb.iisd.org/belem-un-cli...
#climate #climatechange
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Full text of letter leaked to Guardian saying at least 29 nations won't agree a deal without a road map for a phase-out of fossil fuels
"true leadership is .. not lowering expectations to accommodate the most reluctant"
#cop30
www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...
"true leadership is .. not lowering expectations to accommodate the most reluctant"
#cop30
www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...
Cop30 live: standoff over inclusion of fossil fuel phaseout in final text escalates
Following a dramatic fire yesterday, the climate summit is due to finish this evening, but disagreements over the final text look difficult to resolve
www.theguardian.com
November 21, 2025 at 1:02 PM
Full text of letter leaked to Guardian saying at least 29 nations won't agree a deal without a road map for a phase-out of fossil fuels
"true leadership is .. not lowering expectations to accommodate the most reluctant"
#cop30
www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...
"true leadership is .. not lowering expectations to accommodate the most reluctant"
#cop30
www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...
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1/3. 🗣️The #COP30 president Ambassador André Corrêa do Lago, quotes Mohamed Adow of #PowerShiftAfrica
on yesterday's fire 🔥: “Even in a moment of chaos one thing stood out, people of every race and creed took care of each other.”
on yesterday's fire 🔥: “Even in a moment of chaos one thing stood out, people of every race and creed took care of each other.”
November 21, 2025 at 7:41 PM
1/3. 🗣️The #COP30 president Ambassador André Corrêa do Lago, quotes Mohamed Adow of #PowerShiftAfrica
on yesterday's fire 🔥: “Even in a moment of chaos one thing stood out, people of every race and creed took care of each other.”
on yesterday's fire 🔥: “Even in a moment of chaos one thing stood out, people of every race and creed took care of each other.”
Dear @georgemonbiot.bsky.social welcome to @adaptationfutures.bsky.social ! adaptationfutures2025.com we do care and 2000 scientist just met to work on this and related issues
November 21, 2025 at 10:08 AM
Dear @georgemonbiot.bsky.social welcome to @adaptationfutures.bsky.social ! adaptationfutures2025.com we do care and 2000 scientist just met to work on this and related issues
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“At SPREP we have developed model legislation that safeguards Indigenous Knowledge & recognises it as something to be protected and respected when it is used.”
Director General of SPREP, Sefanaia Nawadra, closing the Indigenous Forum of @adaptationfutures.bsky.social #AF2025
Director General of SPREP, Sefanaia Nawadra, closing the Indigenous Forum of @adaptationfutures.bsky.social #AF2025
October 12, 2025 at 4:10 AM
“At SPREP we have developed model legislation that safeguards Indigenous Knowledge & recognises it as something to be protected and respected when it is used.”
Director General of SPREP, Sefanaia Nawadra, closing the Indigenous Forum of @adaptationfutures.bsky.social #AF2025
Director General of SPREP, Sefanaia Nawadra, closing the Indigenous Forum of @adaptationfutures.bsky.social #AF2025
These comments are Unbelievable really-I’ve a group of students working on online male toxicity for a summer city impact project- I saw the comments made under the NZ leader of the opposition Chris Hipkins & Toni Grace’s engagement-even if most are made by bots & only on some sites they are so vile
POV: you are a young woman celebrating a recent academic success
November 18, 2025 at 7:19 AM
These comments are Unbelievable really-I’ve a group of students working on online male toxicity for a summer city impact project- I saw the comments made under the NZ leader of the opposition Chris Hipkins & Toni Grace’s engagement-even if most are made by bots & only on some sites they are so vile
This is all fine www.climatechangenews.com/2025/07/30/p...
November 17, 2025 at 8:37 AM
This is all fine www.climatechangenews.com/2025/07/30/p...
The use of #obstructionism in climate diplomacy is helpfully explained here by Sara Thompson & Ben Weinger - it has serious implications for #cop31, of course I think it should be in the Pacific (Australia can host) but the delays make it hard to hold any effective meeting cssn.org/wp-content/u...
November 16, 2025 at 6:13 PM
The use of #obstructionism in climate diplomacy is helpfully explained here by Sara Thompson & Ben Weinger - it has serious implications for #cop31, of course I think it should be in the Pacific (Australia can host) but the delays make it hard to hold any effective meeting cssn.org/wp-content/u...
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[1/10] Damian Carrington analyse la stratégie climatique saoudienne. Il montre comment le royaume, dépendant d’Aramco et de ses profits colossaux, bloque depuis trente ans l’action internationale tout en subissant un climat déjà “à la limite de l’habitabilité”. #HGGSP #geography #SaudiArabia
$170,000 a minute: why Saudi Arabia is the biggest blocker of climate action
Desert kingdom depends on oil dollars but its people already face a climate ‘at the verge of livability’. What’s going on?
www.theguardian.com
November 16, 2025 at 6:43 AM
[1/10] Damian Carrington analyse la stratégie climatique saoudienne. Il montre comment le royaume, dépendant d’Aramco et de ses profits colossaux, bloque depuis trente ans l’action internationale tout en subissant un climat déjà “à la limite de l’habitabilité”. #HGGSP #geography #SaudiArabia
Good grief #COP30 can’t even agree that the @ipcc.bsky.social provides the best available science! I am a critic of many elements of my county’s current climate stance but I am grateful that #nz was fighting for science on this issue!!
November 16, 2025 at 6:42 AM
Good grief #COP30 can’t even agree that the @ipcc.bsky.social provides the best available science! I am a critic of many elements of my county’s current climate stance but I am grateful that #nz was fighting for science on this issue!!
The second stage of the development of Takapūneke reserve At Akaroa is just going to be amazing
November 15, 2025 at 12:51 AM
The second stage of the development of Takapūneke reserve At Akaroa is just going to be amazing
Brazil started participatory budgeting. Now the idea that ordinary citizens can influence climate policy directly, through a Citizen Track is being championed by Brazil-a good idea! Climate policy’s been delayed, captured & manipulated by powerful elites for too long www.politico.eu/article/cop3...
COP 30 could be the ‘People’s COP’
This year’s conference is an opportunity to be remembered not just for new pledges or targets but for rebooting the relationship between citizens and the climate regime.
www.politico.eu
November 14, 2025 at 12:10 AM
Brazil started participatory budgeting. Now the idea that ordinary citizens can influence climate policy directly, through a Citizen Track is being championed by Brazil-a good idea! Climate policy’s been delayed, captured & manipulated by powerful elites for too long www.politico.eu/article/cop3...
Hmmm I must be missing something - I can’t see how not talking about the lack of ambition in countries’ nationally determined contributions is a helpful strategy (except for the countries that don’t want to be held to account for inaction?) #cop30
November 11, 2025 at 8:11 AM
Hmmm I must be missing something - I can’t see how not talking about the lack of ambition in countries’ nationally determined contributions is a helpful strategy (except for the countries that don’t want to be held to account for inaction?) #cop30
Ahead of COP 30 I’ve been thinking about the irony that the critics of our 1.5 IPCC report are many of the people now saying it’s too late to act because we’ve going past 1.5 & we must focus on instead on technological fixes to address overshoot - here’s why I think these arguments are distractions
November 10, 2025 at 5:13 AM
Ahead of COP 30 I’ve been thinking about the irony that the critics of our 1.5 IPCC report are many of the people now saying it’s too late to act because we’ve going past 1.5 & we must focus on instead on technological fixes to address overshoot - here’s why I think these arguments are distractions
Hoping we can encourage @earthshotprize.bsky.social to come back to blue sky as a place to share great climate ideas! Feel honoured to serve on the jury and so inspired by the relational Friendship project which just won the climate award tonight! youtu.be/zYRAPjvwQJw?...
Fix Our Climate Winner - Friendship
YouTube video by The Earthshot Prize
youtu.be
November 6, 2025 at 11:11 AM
Hoping we can encourage @earthshotprize.bsky.social to come back to blue sky as a place to share great climate ideas! Feel honoured to serve on the jury and so inspired by the relational Friendship project which just won the climate award tonight! youtu.be/zYRAPjvwQJw?...
an @adaptationfutures.bsky.social urban panel discussion between New York City leaders & mayors of towns with significant Indigenous, immigrant & LGBT/marginalised populations facing climate risk, was one of the first international events the Trump Administration pulled funding from… #HopeWon
November 5, 2025 at 10:26 AM
an @adaptationfutures.bsky.social urban panel discussion between New York City leaders & mayors of towns with significant Indigenous, immigrant & LGBT/marginalised populations facing climate risk, was one of the first international events the Trump Administration pulled funding from… #HopeWon
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The ClimateREEFS team has had a wonderful time at #AF2025 showcasing our research on small scale fishery sustainability. Similar challenges but many solutions in climate adaptation. We are in this together. #CLimateAdaptationREsilience @adaptationfutures.bsky.social @priestleycentre.bsky.social
October 15, 2025 at 10:51 PM
The ClimateREEFS team has had a wonderful time at #AF2025 showcasing our research on small scale fishery sustainability. Similar challenges but many solutions in climate adaptation. We are in this together. #CLimateAdaptationREsilience @adaptationfutures.bsky.social @priestleycentre.bsky.social
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#AF2025 Patron Lisa Tumahai, a Ngāi Tahu leader and Deputy Chair He Pou a Rangi Climate Change Commission, shares her thoughts on some of the key messages to come from the Adaptation Futures 2025 Indigenous Forum.
October 22, 2025 at 10:22 PM
#AF2025 Patron Lisa Tumahai, a Ngāi Tahu leader and Deputy Chair He Pou a Rangi Climate Change Commission, shares her thoughts on some of the key messages to come from the Adaptation Futures 2025 Indigenous Forum.
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"When the next storm comes, will you be one who steps back, or steps up?" Toroa Charteris & Zabeel Scanlan, Westport high-school students. #AF2025
October 13, 2025 at 3:50 AM
"When the next storm comes, will you be one who steps back, or steps up?" Toroa Charteris & Zabeel Scanlan, Westport high-school students. #AF2025
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“Risk comes about when people and ecosystems and infrastructure are exposed to those hazards… when it has underlying weaknesses… so we need to think about what we can do to reduce that risk.”
David Dodman at #ChristchurchConversations @adaptationfutures.bsky.social #AF2025
David Dodman at #ChristchurchConversations @adaptationfutures.bsky.social #AF2025
October 15, 2025 at 8:30 AM
“Risk comes about when people and ecosystems and infrastructure are exposed to those hazards… when it has underlying weaknesses… so we need to think about what we can do to reduce that risk.”
David Dodman at #ChristchurchConversations @adaptationfutures.bsky.social #AF2025
David Dodman at #ChristchurchConversations @adaptationfutures.bsky.social #AF2025
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As the world’s fastest-warming region, Asia has no time to wait. At #AF2025 in Christchurch, scientists and leaders spotlighted how local knowledge, innovation, and cross-border cooperation are reshaping the region’s response to climate change.
www.asiamediacentre.org.nz/af2025-asia-...
www.asiamediacentre.org.nz/af2025-asia-...
AF2025: Asia at the Frontlines of Climate Adaptation
At Adaptation Futures 2025, Asia’s climate crisis met its innovators. From Bangladesh to Japan, local solutions are inspiring global action.
www.asiamediacentre.org.nz
October 28, 2025 at 9:11 PM
As the world’s fastest-warming region, Asia has no time to wait. At #AF2025 in Christchurch, scientists and leaders spotlighted how local knowledge, innovation, and cross-border cooperation are reshaping the region’s response to climate change.
www.asiamediacentre.org.nz/af2025-asia-...
www.asiamediacentre.org.nz/af2025-asia-...
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Great to join #AF2025 virtually. My talk: upscaling the deployment of Nature-based Solutions needs
- Good evidence on benefits, synergies and tradeoffs
- Landscape scale planning
- Local leadership and knowledge
- trusted advisors
- partnership working
- Flexibility to adapt
- Long-term funding
- Good evidence on benefits, synergies and tradeoffs
- Landscape scale planning
- Local leadership and knowledge
- trusted advisors
- partnership working
- Flexibility to adapt
- Long-term funding
virtually.talk
October 13, 2025 at 12:21 PM
Great to join #AF2025 virtually. My talk: upscaling the deployment of Nature-based Solutions needs
- Good evidence on benefits, synergies and tradeoffs
- Landscape scale planning
- Local leadership and knowledge
- trusted advisors
- partnership working
- Flexibility to adapt
- Long-term funding
- Good evidence on benefits, synergies and tradeoffs
- Landscape scale planning
- Local leadership and knowledge
- trusted advisors
- partnership working
- Flexibility to adapt
- Long-term funding