COP30: Newcastle highlights - Pictures and Reports

This year's Global Day of Action - to demand from world leaders overdue urgent climate action - came after the gloomiest evidence yet of the perils of inaction.

The World Meteorological Organization reported that carbon dioxide (CO₂) levels in the atmosphere soared by a record amount to new highs in 2024, committing the planet to more long-term temperature increases, with inevitable consequences for environmental and health harms and extreme weather.

Campaigners in Newcastle responded in fierce fashion: banners, placards, chants, music, performance, heartfelt discussion. Speakers from groups across communities spoke passionately about all-year-round efforts to defend our environment, tackle harm and work together on cleaner sustainable solutions.

This was a day that mattered. We and campaigners around the world demanded that all decision makers and leaders show the same commitment and sense of urgency.

Many more details, pictures and thanks in our special reports and galleries:

***COP30 Rally and Speakers: pictures and report

***COP30 March: music, banners, Red Rebel Brigade

***COP30 Stalls Festival: activities, Speakers and more!

Thank you to the groups and climate activists who prepared over the weeks and travelled to the Newcastle event. Celebrate North East climate activism 2025! - COP30 slideshow/video here.

Thank you to COP30 Day of Action Organisers: NE Climate Justice Coalition (Tony Dowling, pictured, hosted Speakers at Rally and Stalls Festival); Climate Action Newcastle; XR; MedAct; Mothers' Rebellion Circle; Greenpeace; Tipping Point.

 ... plus funding support from Friends of the Earth and individual donations.

Thank you to the groups and climate activists who prepared over the weeks and travelled to the Newcastle event. ***Celebrate North East climate activism 2025! - COP30 slideshow/video here.

Thank you to Baltic for support for the COP30 Placard Workshop: and thanks to the caring people who dropped in and created very individual climate messages

**COP30 North East slideshow/video: celebrate 2025's North East climate activists - thank you to Eleanor

**Thank you to our volunteer photographers: Chris Beadling, Emma Short, Iain Kitt (plus everyone who shared your pics and video clips)

**And thank you to the event volunteers for unstinting efforts in a multitude of tasks: John Adams, Clare Bethell, Terri Clibery, Jacky Doran, Tony Dowling, Kathy Geater, Olwyn Hocking, Grace Holden-Cook, Kate Israel, Guy Norfolk, Polly Ord, Ralph Pettingill, Helen Raffle, Rakesh Prashara, Nimrah Saleem, Terry Smith, Jen Stephenson, Alan Trevethan, Gill Turner, Tony Waterston ... plus Rosie (Hexham Climate Cafe)

***More pictures and special report - see Evening Chronicle coverage, here: https://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/news/north-east-news/gallery/36-pictures-climate-activists-gather-32881156