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The Future of Climate-Water Talk: WWW's Conclusions
21/12/09 18:59
World Water Week
has come up
several times here. Every August, the
Stockholm International Water
Institute (SIWI) hosts what is probably the
most important water event of the year —
certainly one that’s more fun and focused than
World Water Week, which is ridiculously large.
This week, SIWI has just pubbed their year-end
review of World Water Week’s
“results,” compiled by the rapporteur teams for
each subject area. For 2009, I was the one of
six rapporteurs for the
climate change theme, which
felt like a great honor to me. Our part of the
report has what I think are some interesting
implications for the state of the water and
climate change policy dialog internationally.
Which might be an encouraging contrast to
the more
disappointing news from
Copenhagen. Some highlights:
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Speaking Water to Power: An Address to Ministers in Advance of COP15
31/08/09 20:38
Does the UN Framework
Convention on Climate Change help anyone with
adaptation practice on the ground now? Can we
improve international adaptation policy?
Here, I was
asked to speak by the Stockholm International Water
Institute on behalf of the CSO/NGO
community to a group of minister/cabinent-level
officials involved with water and development
from six different countries. The "high-level
panel" occurred in late August 2009 during World
Water Week in Stockholm, Sweden. By way of
backstory, I was pretty angry by the time I got
to talk. Most of the ministers had gone way over
their allotted 5 minutes, and it was clear they
weren't very interested in listening to me
anyway. I felt a bit of passion by the time the
discussion came around to me. Their statements
were deeply theoretical -- lacking in people and
places, removed from practical issues. They were
cold. I felt hot. 7.5 min. Below is the written text of
my presentation. Read
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Meet the Press
23/08/08 05:12
World Water Week in
Stockholm is very policy oriented. This year, much
of the focus was on sanitation, but two days were
spent in a series of linked symposia on water and
climate. Talks ranged from more details on emerging
climate impacts with the IPCC’s new technical
report on water and climate to regional and local
adaptation strategies and tactics. Easily two of
the most novel experiences for me as a scientist
were interacting with the press as an “adaptation
expert” and holding some introductory climate
adaptation conversations with two international
development banks. I’ll write more about the banks
later, but the media interaction was a good if
difficult experience. Read
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