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New research from Warwick Business School has shown that models used by economists to calculate the effects of climate change policies can produce polar opposite recommendations.

Published in Water Issues

WHITE HOUSE PREP coastal floodingThe White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP), World Resources Institute (WRI), U.S. Global Change Research Program (USGCRP) and a network of partners have launched the Partnership for Resilience and Preparedness (PREP) to help communities, companies and investors use data to improve climate resilience planning.

Published in Water Issues

The UK is facing a significant and growing risk of severe drought impacts, according to the first study to look at the long-term resilience of public water supply published by Water UK, which represents all the UK water companies.

Published in Water Issues

The Met Office says that the latest state of the global climate report reveals 2015 was a record-breaking year, following on from 2014, which recorded the previous highest average global surface temperature.

Published in Water Issues

interact1A € 9.5 million+ EU-funded INTERACT project has built a network of Arctic research stations, allowing them to coordinate and share resources more efficiently.

Published in Energy and Carbon

Ofwat's latest climate adaptation update report includes a commitment to introduce a new Bid Assessment Framework for the water companies to ensure that in-house solutions are not favoured at the expense of third party proposals.

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) are producing a special report on climate change and the oceans and the cryosphere (SROCC). The UK Focal Point, based in the Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC), is inviting expressions of interest from UK experts to participate in the scoping of this special report.

Published in Water Issues

The deadline is approaching to respond to a call by the Natural Environment Research Council - the UK’s leading funder of independent research, training and innovation in environmental science to submit proposals for the Environmental Risks to Infrastructure Innovation Programme.

Published in Water Issues

veniceClimate change is fast becoming one of the most significant risks for World Heritage sites, according to a new report released by UNESCO, the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), and the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS).

 

A new research study says that climate change and extreme weather – including unusually wet summers in the UK – are linked to high pressure weather systems over Greenland, one of the fastest-warming regions of the world.

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