The UK water sector’s innovation centre of excellence Spring has launched Net Zero Carbon as its first innovation challenge - giving innovators of all shapes and sizes the first opportunity to share their solutions with every water company in the UK and Ireland.

Steve Morris, MD of wastewater treatment technology specialists HUBER Technology, takes a look at what Ofwat’s proposals for reducing embedded carbon emissions from infrastructure projects could mean for water companies and the supply chain.

The government has today published the UK’s Third Climate Change Risk Assessment (CCRA3) – which warns that UK faces myriad risks which could cost many billions of pounds a year to tackle within a relatively short timescale by 2050.

The European Union’s Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S) has released its annual findings which show that globally 2021 was among the seven warmest on record.

Leading infrastructure consultancy firm AECOM has today announced it has developed a new carbon and cost tool with the Environment Agency that will be rolled out across all Environment Agency construction projects to help the organisation meet its 2030 net zero ambitions.

Ofwat is calling on water companies in England and Wales to go further on Net Zero and reduce embedded carbon emissions from future infrastructure projects, in addition to operational carbon emissions.