02 Jul 2026

Image description: A wooden Judge’s gavel against a black back drop. Photo by Sasun Bughdaryan on Unsplash    A new litigation frontier  The LSE Grantham Research Institute’s latest annual review of global climate litigation identifies data centre water consumption and energy sourcing as one of the next major frontiers for climate-related legal action around the world. In 2025 […]

26 Jan 2021

The government has published a summary of responses and its response to the recent consultation on the Future Homes Standard: All homes and business facilities will be required to meet new energy efficiency standards that reduce energy consumption and lower bills by 2025, after the Government finally outlined responses to the Future Homes Standard. There […]

12 May 2020

From the Waterwise newsletter Waterwise ‘In Association with Artesia’ – forecasting long term per capita consumption (PCC) pathways  The world has changed considerably since Artesia took a look at historic water use in our February newsletter. This month’s article looks at forecasting water use and focuses on two reports Artesia produced for Ofwat and Water UK […]

21 Sep 2016

New research from the European Commission’s Joint Research Centre (JRC) uses a new methodology to estimate and map water requirements for energy production in Europe. In this study, the category of dedicated energy crops (ENCR) played an important role. These crops are expected to emerge as additional fuel sources within the EU28 by 2020. Water […]