The Water and Wastewater Companies for Climate Mitigation (WaCCliM) project supports water and wastewater utilities to reduce their carbon footprints and adapt to the impacts of climate change. Following a cross-sectoral approach that spans mitigation and adaptation, we consider the implications of greenhouse gases (GHGs) in the water–energy–carbon nexus.
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HELP Guiding Principles for Drought Risk Management under a Changing Climate
In recent years, countries around the world have been hit hard by drought events that affect food supplies, agricultural incomes, employment, drinking water supplies, ecosystem health, transportation systems, and energy production. As the risk of drought is increasing due to ongoing climate change the HELP community started the flagship initiative to draft a report as guidance for supporting, defining and
refining DRR for drought risk management. In this report proactive approaches, having greater emphasis on building resilience, are advocated.
The Future of Renewable Power Production
Nearly two years into the Covid-19 pandemic, the renewable power projects on which the world relies to mitigate climate change face bigger challenges than when the coronavirus started to make headlines in 2020. As the global economy started to recover, commodity prices rose sharply and logistic bottlenecks wreaked havoc on supply chains, causing delays and eroding the margins of power equipment providers and project developers. At this point, unappealing profitability or even financial losses jeopardize investments on research, innovation, and capacity expansion. These were some of the problems discussed during the webinar The Future of Renewables: Insights from Industry Leaders, sponsored by Black & Veatch and held on January 12, 2022, as part of the Energy Leaders Series. To address these issues, the participating experts highlighted the need for new models and incentives to put the renewable power industry back on a profitable course that would enable a stable transition to a greener global energy matrix.
RESEARCH REPORT Beyond zero carbon: the bigger picture for transformation and adaptation ahead of utilities
Anglian Water 2030 strategy
For many years we have been at the forefront of carbon reduction in the water industry. With a committed leadership and a determined supply chain, by 2020 we had reduced capital carbon by 61 per cent in our capital programmes from our original 2010 baseline and reduced operational emissions by 34 per cent from a new baseline set in 2014/2015. We are also supporting system-wide decarbonisation in the region, for example by exporting waste heat to warm tomato greenhouses in our region year-round – something we are looking to repeat at other sites
Policy and Action Standard
Greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions are driving climate change and its impacts around the world. According to climate scientists, global greenhouse gas emissions must be cut by as much as 72 percent below 2010 levels by 2050 to have a likely chance of limiting the increase in global mean temperature to 2 degrees Celsius above preindustrial levels (IPCC 2014). Every degree increase in temperature will produce increasingly unpredictable and dangerous impacts for people and ecosystems. As a result, there is an urgent need to accelerate efforts
to reduce GHG emissions.
Estándar de objetivos de mitigación (Spanish)
Las emisiones de gases de efecto invernadero (GEI) están provocando el cambio climático y sus impactos alrededor del mundo. De acuerdo con los científicos que estudian el clima, las emisiones de gases de efecto invernadero globales se deben reducir hasta en un 72 por ciento por debajo de los niveles del año 2010 para el año 2050 para tener una oportunidad factible de limitar el incremento de la temperatura global promedio a 2 grados Celsius por encima de los niveles previos a la era industrial (IPCC 2014). Cada incremento de un grado en la temperatura producirá impactos cada vez más impredecibles y peligrosos para las personas y los ecosistemas. Como resultado, existe una necesidad urgente de acelerar los esfuerzos orientados a reducir las emisiones de GEI.
Climate Change and Marine Spatial Planning Policy Brief
As a changing climate alters ocean conditions, the redistribution of marine ecosystem services and benefits will affect maritime activities and societal value chains. While the magnitude of the effects will be diverse and region-specific and vary across sectors, both humans and nature will be subjected to increasing and intense negative impacts. Furthermore, the impacts of a changing climate on maritime economies are yet largely unknown and there are uncertainties and limitations of climate and ocean management options, which are at a very early or experimental stage. Significant gaps in technical, institutional and financial capacities for climate change adaptation between developed and developing countries exist, pointing to an imbalanced response to the global climate crisis.