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