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New framework launched at COP26 to help businesses and regions measure climate resiliency

A UN programme to get cities, regions, businesses and investors to improve approaches to resiliency has launched a new set of metric systems today (8 November) at COP26, to assist with a goal of making four billion people more resilient to an array of risks by 2030.

Nations to mobilise $12bn to tackle deforestation and land degradation

Climate & nature

Report: This summer’s extreme weather events would have been ‘virtually impossible’ without climate crisis

Climate & nature

Report: Move water to top of political agenda to deliver environmental and social wins

Circular economy

Water resources infrastructure policy due this Autumn

Circular economy

Extreme water stress affects a quarter of the world’s population, say experts

Circular economy

England could run short of water within 25 years

Circular economy

Climate change made UK heatwave 30 times more likely – Met Office

The sweltering heat that hit the UK this summer was made 30 times more likely by human-caused climate change, a Met Office analysis has found.

Climate & nature

UK summer ‘wind drought’ puts green revolution into reverse

Britain's long heatwave threw the country's green energy revolution into reverse and pushed up carbon emissions this summer, leading experts to stress the need for a diverse energy mix.

Energy

Extreme temperatures ‘especially likely for next four years’

The world is likely to see more extreme temperatures in the coming four years as natural warming reinforces manmade climate change, according to a new global forecasting system.

Climate & nature

Business focus on water management reaching ‘record levels’, says CDP

The number of big businesses investing in water security has reached "record levels", with new analysis from CDP finding that more than $23bn has been invested in 2017 as some companies place an "internal price on water" to justify funding decisions.

Circular economy

WWF: UK could lose £35bn by 2050 through extreme weather

Researchers have warned that future droughts could dent the UK economy by around £35bn unless extreme weather scenarios are factored into governmental and business decisions.