Andrew Johnstone, CEO of specialist Wiltshire-headquartered landscape consultancy Johnstone Landscapes Ltd, discusses the growing uptake of green infrastructure projects both in commercial and domestic environments.

Increasing numbers of cities worldwide risk reaching Day Zero, with taps running dry, and exacerbating the effects of climate change, unless they start actively managing and improving the resilience of their entire water basins, warns a new report by global engineering consultancy Arup.

A new partnership which includes the world's leading financial institutions with the aim of accelerating the issue of green bonds and crowding in additional climate finance has been launched at the Global Climate Action Summit in San Francisco this week.

The NFU has made renewed appeals to Secretary of State for Food and the Environment Michael Gove to assist farm businesses still suffering from the impacts of agricultural drought, having seen “little Government action” since the NFU’s emergency summit on August 1.

After further assessing the temperature data for the UK as a whole for summer 2018, the Met Office has confirmed that the figures are so close it is declaring it as the joint hottest on record together with the record-breaking summers of 2006, 2003 and 1976.

International NGO WWF is calling for a scale up of collective action globally to tackle water risks – especially through engagement with the financial sector around both risk and opportunity.

A new report from the Institution of Mechanical Engineers is warning that the UK water industry will face higher costs for treating and managing water supplies due to the increasing occurrence of drought and flood resulting from climate change.

Scientists are warning that the planet is on the threshold of entering “Hothouse Earth” conditions with soaring temperatures and sea levels between 10 to 60 metres higher than today becoming the new reality.

A new £22 million research programme will investigate the impacts of climate change and human activities on the Atlantic Ocean, from the surface to the deep seabed.

The latest State of the UK Climate report produced by the Met Office shows that nine of the 10 warmest years for the UK have occurred since 2002 and that seven of the 10 wettest years for the UK have occurred since 1998.