Levels of heat-trapping greenhouse gases in the atmosphere have reached another new record high, according to a new report from the World Meteorological Organization.

Yorkshire Water has collaborated with one its framework partners, Galliford Try, to become the first company in the industry to run an accredited Carbon Literacy course.

A new report by the Economist Intelliegence Unit is warning that by 2050 climate change could be costing the world economy as much as US$7.9 trillion as increased drought, flooding and crop failures hamper growth and threaten infrastructure. 

In the latest set of natural capital accounts for the UK, the Office for National Statistics (ONS) has described current levels of water abstraction as unsustainable in some regions – as abstraction in England continues to rise.

Starting on Wednesday 6 November, 30,000 invitation letters will be landing on doormats across the UK – including Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland – inviting people to join Climate Assembly UK.

More investment is needed to make urban waste water treatment plants fit to meet the difficult challenges posed by the impacts of climate change, as well as the presence of antibiotics and other micro-pollutants in waste water, according to a new European Environment Agency (EEA) briefing.

John Belgrove, Senior Partner at global professional services firm Aon, has been appointed Chair of the Investment Leaders Group (ILG), a group of 12 leading pension funds, insurers and asset managers convened by the University of Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership (CISL).

New measures to protect water resources, together with new powers to direct water companies to work together to meet current and future demand for water, form part of a New Environment Bill included in the Queen’s Speech published yesterday. 

Ofwat has today published a new strategy to help transform water company performance, meet long-term challenges and embed public purpose into the sector.

Yorkshire Water has signed up to the Natural Capital Commitment which will see the utility commit to working with partner organisations, and working with nature, to create better outcomes for the environment, together with sharing the outcomes of its natural capital assessments publicly.