SDG 6 – the mid-term messages
The United Nations’ (UN’s) Mid-term Review of the Water Action Decade: Key messages from the United Nations Regional Commissions report was released at the...
Nature and climate flooding the risk horizon
The World Economic Forum has released the 18th edition of its Global Risks Report 2023 based on the latest Global Risks Perception Survey (GRPS)...
The US agenda on global water security
By Erika Yarrow-Soden
The US Agency for International Development (USAID) and the US Department of State have launched the 2022-2027 US Global Water Strategy to...
Left stranded – how water can impact the assets of major users
A new report produced by CDP in collaboration with Planet Tracker, High and Dry: How Water Issues Are Stranding Assets, presents research highlighting how...
Groundwater: the many challenges of a hidden resource
Billions of people’s lives depend on groundwater sources that are polluted and overexploited or at risk. Some of the damage is irreversible and, according...
Sector opportunities for methane emission action
The pledges and action plans to cut carbon emissions emanating from COP26 indicate that there is top-level recognition of the urgency of the climate...
The physical certainties of climate change
With COP26 underway, The Source reviews key IPCC messages on the physical science of climate change
The IPCC’s Sixth Assessment Report (AR6) on the ‘physical...
The systemic switch for surviving drought
By Keith Hayward
Highlighting drought as an “existential threat to many parts of the world”, the UN Office for Disaster Risk Reduction, in its ‘GAR...
The path to better valuing of water
By Keith Hayward
The focus of this year’s UN World Water Development Report, the eighth in what has become a series of annual, thematic reports,...
Assessing Europe’s progress with the UN Sustainable Development Goals
By Lis Stedman
The new European Environment Agency (EEA) report on progress on the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) across the European Union and EEA cooperating...
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How sewage surveillance lit Hong Kong’s pandemic path
Dr Samuel HK Chui explains how using wastewater surveillance in Hong Kong to help manage the spread of COVID-19 was like driving with the...
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UNU report warns on tipping points if environmental risks not addressed
A new report released by the United Nations University (UNU) has found that drastic changes to fundamental socioecological systems are likely if environmental risks...
