12 May 2020
A very strong theme has emerged over last few weeks which is how we can draw lessons from the Covid-19 emergency about climate change in order to plan for our future. There are articles appearing daily from a wide range of sources on what we should be aiming for and the opportunity that the emergency […]
02 Apr 2020
Claudia Sadoff, director general of the International Water Management Institute, argues that our efforts to mitigate the impacts of climate change and address food security could be counterproductive if we don’t pay more attention to water and its use. Few details were revealed about Amazon chief Jeff Bezos’ new US$10bn Bezos Earth Fund to tackle climate change, […]
05 Mar 2020
Severn Trent outlines ambitious sustainability commitments for the future £1.2 billion investment Water Briefing Severn Trent Plc is today hosting a Capital Markets Day, focusing on the company’s approach to sustainability and the benefits it can deliver both for the environment and for wider stakeholders. The water company is making a number of ambitious long-term commitments […]
12 Feb 2020
The Catchment Based Approach (CaBA), the initiative to drive collaborative water management across England, has published its annual report that includes a summary of the environmental work undertaken by its 106 river catchment partnerships nationwide. The benefits arising include improvement of water quality, addressing flood risk and water scarcity and empowering local communities through citizen […]
12 Sep 2019
No major oil company invests to support Paris goals of keeping well below 2˚C Carbon Tracker: Oil and gas companies have approved $50 billion of investment since 2018 in major projects that undermine climate targets and threaten shareholder returns, Carbon Tracker finds in a report released today. The first study to identify individual projects that […]
23 Apr 2019
Bank of England boss Mark Carney has told global banks they cannot ignore climate change dangers. Writing in The Guardian, Carney and François Villeroy de Galhau, the governor of the Banque de France, said financial regulators, banks and insurers around the world had to “raise the bar” to avoid catastrophe. The heads of two of the […]
10 Jul 2018
The National Infrastructure Commission is calling on the Government to put in place a long-term strategy to deliver a nationwide standard of flood resilience by 2050 – with funding for flood risk management increasing significantly over the coming decades. The call is among a range of recommendations the Commission has made in the first-ever National Infrastructure […]
02 May 2018
Bruce Horton update on Climate change and water 1. State of the World’s Water As the latest UN Climate Change Conference kicks off in Germany, a new report on the state of the world’s water warns that 5 billion people could face water shortages by 2050, as a result of increased demand, pollution and climate […]
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