Thames Water has published a progress report on its progress in adapting to the current and future predicted effects of climate change on their organisation- the report was invited by Defra under the adaptation reporting power in the Climate Change Act 2008.
As global leaders prepare to sign the Paris Agreement on climate change today at United Nations Headquarters in New York, the head of the UN Office for Disaster Risk Reduction has called on signatories to go beyond their existing commitments to reduce greenhouse gas emissions if the world is to avoid catastrophic future weather events.
New Carbon Trust research has revealed that only a quarter (25%) of public sector organisations surveyed have plans in place to adapt services and operations to the impacts of climate change, such as more frequent flooding or higher temperatures.
The World Economic Forum, meeting in Davos Switzerland this week, has identified water as the number one global risk for business and society in the coming decade.
Yorkshire Water has published a climate change report that highlights how extreme rainfall and storm surges are likely to increase across the region.
Jonathan Grant, Sustainability & Climate Change Director at PwC, offers a reality check on the Paris Agreement signed on Saturday at the UN Climate Summit in Paris.
Half of the 60 largest economies face a serious risk of water shortages in the future unless climate policy changes, according to new research from the economics department of the ING global banking group.
The United Nations conference on climate change in Paris has agreed an historic new global climate agreement.
The Committee on Climate Change, the independent, statutory body which advises the UK Government and Devolved Administrations, has published its 5th Carbon Budget.
The C40 Cities Climate Leadership Group (C40) and Arup have released 'Climate Action in Megacities 3.0', the world’s most extensive quantitative study of city climate action.