The House of Commons International Trade Committee has today launched an inquiry on COP26 and international trade.

Waterscan has become the UK’s only accredited water consultancy partner to the CDP in a move which addresses the growing importance and complexity of reporting on water.

MPs who sit on the House of Commons Environmental Audit Committee are warning that the fashion industry is depleting the world’s water resources, polluting rivers and other surface waters with chemicals and adding to ocean microplastic pollution.

As part of its continued water conservation efforts, Ford Motor Company has become the first automaker to commit to the Business Alliance for Water and Climate Initiative, a coalition dedicated to analysing risks and implementing solutions to water issues around the world.

The European Commission has published the Urban Water Atlas for Europe showing how different water management choices, as well as other factors such as waste management, climate change and even food preferences, affect the long-term sustainability of water use in cities.

A new report from environmental NGO WWF is warning that increasing globalisation means Germany is facing hidden water risks via “imported water risks”.

Novo Nordisk has become the first pharmaceutical company in the world to publish an environmental profit and loss account so that it can further integrate sustainability into its core business – the analysis shows that the environmental impacts of Novo Nordisk’s business cost €223m in 2011.

UK sustainability company Sustain has secured funding from the Technology Strategy Board to develop the UK’s first water footprint database for materials.

The European Union’s One Planet Economy Network EU project (OPEN:EU) has launched a unique new tool for mapping ecological carbon and water footprint data across all the 27 EU member states.