The Watery Road to Copenhagen Livecast: Water & Climate Change Symposium!
30/10/09 09:37
Looking back across
the last twenty years, there have been several
notable climate change policy and science events.
The 1992 Rio Convention
helped define the
shape of climate change policy for the next
decade and created the IPCC as a science
advisory board. The Ministerial Declaration of
the Hague on Water Security in Twenty-First
Century captured many key concepts on
water and climate change, linking policy, water
management, and the need for a new paradigm. And
the Brisbane Convention
on environmental
flows in 2007 marked a major consensus between
policymakers and ecologists and hydrologists
that flow regime was the most important aspect
of freshwater ecosystems to focus on for
sustainable use. This is a good time for
reflection on where we've come, and where
freshwater conservation and development needs to
go next. And fortunately, the Fuller Symposium
on 3 and 4 November — titled Securing Water for
People and Nature in a Changing Climate — is
just in time.
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Water & Climate: Not Everything Is Negative
27/10/09 15:53
I had a bit of press
coverage during World Water Week last August. I'll
spare you from the article that appeared in the
People's Daily Worker in China, but
ThinkGloballyRadio.org conducted a nice 30-minute
interview (and I didn't say "uh" too much either,
which was a relief). You can stream the interview
at the station's website and clicking on the episode
listed (at the top right of the window) as
091011. I talk about the impacts of climate
change on freshwater ecosystems, the ability of
climate change to bring disparate groups
together, and the state (as of August 2009) of
international freshwater adaptation policy
leading up to
COP15. Read
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