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Water UK: Decarbonisation route map getting global attention at COP26
Water UK's Sam Larsen talks to Utility Week about the encouraging first week of COP26 where the trade body drew global attention for the route map to net zero it coordinated and published last year. With others keen to learn from the UK's approach to decarbonising the water sector, Larsen discusses progress made in the 12 months since the route map was published.
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Global call for investment into process emissions
Representatives from water companies around the world have jointly called on governments and national water sector players to work together to tackle the challenge of process emissions from wastewater treatment. As part of COP26, Water UK, together with trade associations in other European countries, the US, Australia and New Zealand, urged leaders to drive investment and innovation.
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Process emissions named as key challenge at COP26
Process emissions and reducing demand for water have been highlighted as key challenges on the road to net zero and adaption at the COP26 climate change summit in Glasgow. Lord Deben called on wealthier countries to accept their financial responsibility for the changing climate to preserve water supplies into the future.
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Thames sets sights on carbon negative future
Thames Water has set out plans to go beyond carbon net-zero goals with an ambition to enter carbon neutrality by 2040. The routemap highlights wastewater treatment as the area most in need of attention, but with opportunities included.
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Industry calls for VAT on green products to be axed
Bulb chief executive Hayden Wood and REA boss Nina Skorupska are among 32 industry figures who have written to Boris Johnson urging him to scrap VAT on green products. While the letter states the sector was “encouraged” with the chancellor pledging investment in green infrastructure projects in the recent budget, it said there was disappointment at the “lack of policies to help people play a part in reaching net zero”.
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Innovate East returns to address decarbonisation
To address some of the problematic elements of decarbonisation in the water sector, this virtual innovation festival jointly hosted by Anglian, Yorkshire and Essex & Suffolk will look towards COP26
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‘Failure is a part of great ambition on the path to net zero’
As part of our Countdown to COP campaign, Utility Week speaks to Iain McGuffog, director of strategy & regulation at Bristol Water. He discusses the importance of a community-led approach to reaching net zero, opportunities under Brexit and why some failures will be inevitable if ambition and innovation are truly stretching.
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On the Move: National Grid, SSE and Southern
National Grid has unveiled a General Electric director as its new chair. Elsewhere, former energy minister and COP26 president Claire O'Neill has joined sustainable business group WBCSD, Southern Water prepares to welcome EA director Toby Willison and an ex-Ofwat director joins SSE.
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New COP26 dates confirmed
The COP26 climate conference in Glasgow will take place one year after originally intended – from 1 to 12 November – it has been confirmed.
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‘No cast iron guarantee’ of COP26
As uncertainty grows over whether the UK will be able to press ahead with hosting the UN climate change showcase event, which is due to take place in November, Foreign secretary Dominic Raab has admitted that it is “under review”.
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Utilities and the coronavirus
As the coronavirus spreads and government advice cranks up, Utility Week magazine editor Suzanne Heneghan considers the impact on UK utilities and their obligations for keeping civil society operating
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