NI Water has won a Queen’s Award for Enterprise for Sustainable Development 2020 - the awards recognise companies across the UK that display best practice in Sustainable Development and address sustainability issues using innovative approaches.

The World Bank is launching a Sustainable Development Bond series to raise awareness of the critical role of water and ocean resources. 

In an Expert Focus article on Waterbriefing, Codi Kozacek, news correspondent for Circle of Blue raises key issues of fundamental importance for global water challenges in the run-up to the forthcoming climate change negotiations which will take place in Paris this December.

The House of Commons Environmental Audit Committee is warning that the Government's strategy to create a green economy is too focused on voluntary action and fails to set a clear trajectory or any time-bound milestones for businesses to achieve. The MPs want the Government to develop minimum sustainability standards with stakeholders and businesses

The Welsh Assembly has launched a consultation seeking comments on its newly-published Sustainable Development discussion paper which sets out current thinking on legislation needed to create a single Sustainable Development body for Wales.