For the first time, the UK and Chinese governments have agreed a ground-breaking joint statement on climate change.
The agreement is part of broader work together to reduce emissions and enhance energy security, central to which will be achieving a global, legally binding, and ambitious climate change agreement in Paris in 2015.
Strong and growing cooperation between China and the UK now extends to low carbon policies, new energy technologies, and the means of financing the UK’s low carbon transitions. The UK and China have launched a joint £20 million research programme on Low Carbon Innovation, including research on offshore renewables, low carbon manufacturing processes and technologies and low carbon cities.
A major new programme of collaboration has also been announced between the Met Office Hadley Centre, a leading UK climate change research centre, and the Climate Change Centre of the Chinese Meteorological Administration and the Chinese Institute of Atmospheric Physics, focussed on the climate science needed to support the development of climate services in the region.
Enpure Ltd and Clean TeQ Water Ltd have announced a collaboration agreement to bring Clean TeQ Water's Moving Bed Ion Exchange-based nutrient removal technologies to water utilities across the UK.
Near-real-time microbial monitoring of wastewater discharge and bathing waters is now possible thanks to the BactoSense ID solution created by Swiss-based bNovate Technologies.
ABB has launched AquaMaster+™, a digital platform for smart water network management, designed to help water utilities monitor, analyze and manage their water networks, preventing pipeline water losses and optimizing operations.
Craig Nienaber, Business Development Manager for Safe Access Solutions (SAS) at HUBER Technology, explores why the company is seeing a growing level of interest in its safe access solutions for critical infrastructure providers, including their application in wastewater treatment assets.
Southern Water has released film and images showing what it’s like to walk inside Hampshire’s expanded Yew Hill underground reservoir for the very last time, before it gets filled with water.
Hear how Scottish Water has completed its £235 million Ayrshire Glasgow Resilience Project - customers across Greater Glasgow, Ayrshire and East Renfrewshire will now benefit from a more secure and resilient water supply.
Hear how United Utilities is accelerating its investment to reduce spills from storm overflows across the Northwest.