27 Apr 2021
‘Biden vows to slash US emissions by half to meet ‘existential crisis of our time’ US president tells virtual climate summit that ‘time is short’ to address dangerous global heating in a break from Trump era. The initiative has also fostered a new climate of co-operation between world leaders’ – Guardian overview Climate Action Tracker: […]
06 Apr 2021
CCW’s Strategy for 2021-24 ‘We’ve published our Strategy for 2021-24, which sets out CCW’s mission, strategic objectives and campaigns for the next three years. We want to continue to improve and strengthen our organisation so that we’re best placed to secure a fair deal for water consumers, now and in the future. We’ve refocused our strategy […]
30 Mar 2021
Measures to reduce harm from storm overflows to be made law Defra ‘New legal duties on water companies and government will reduce sewage discharged into waterways. Measures to reduce sewage discharges from storm overflows will be put into law, the government confirmed today (Monday 29 March), as part of an ambitious agenda to build back […]
30 Mar 2021
Green Homes Grant scheme to insulate houses axed By Roger Harrabin BBC environment analyst BBC ‘A much-promoted grants scheme to help householders in England insulate their home is to be scrapped within days. The Green Homes Grant (GHG) reached just 10% of the 600,000 homes the chancellor promised would be improved. The scheme will be […]
30 Mar 2021
Utility Week – Countdown to COP26 We are now just nine months away from the COP26 conference in Glasgow and the pressure is on to ensure the UK can show the world it is serious about climate change. Utilities have already laid the foundations on which to build a green future and where many other […]
09 Mar 2021
Public Accounts Committee ‘As it gears up to host the international climate summit COP26 a few months from now the UK Government “lacks a plan for how it will achieve net zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050” despite setting the target – in law – almost two years ago. Read the report summary Read the conclusions and recommendations Read the […]
03 Mar 2021
The report, A Wave of Change, by CDP, a non-profit that runs the world’s environmental disclosure platform, finds that the companies disclosing through CDP’s water security questionnaire in 2020 risk losing up to a combined US$301 billion in business value if they fail to address them. THE CDP estimate the total cost of addressing these […]
02 Mar 2021
Atlantic Ocean circulation at weakest in a millennium, say scientists https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/feb/25/atlantic-ocean-circulation-at-weakest-in-a-millennium-say-scientists?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other Potsdam Institute: 02/25/2021 – ‘Never before in over 1000 years the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC), also known as Gulf Stream System, has been as weak as in the last decades. This is the result of a new study by scientists from Ireland, Britain […]
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