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UNFCCC Bonn water and climate change session
10/06/11 05:53
Side Event at the climate change conference in Bonn: Water, Climate and Development: Towards COP 17
Time: 13 June 2011, Monday, 18:15-19:45 pm Place: Room METRO (MoT)
To meet the commitments related to water resources in the Convention and the Cancun Agreements, concrete actions by the Parties are urgently required. The projected impacts of water related hazards due to climate change include: sea level
rise; melting of snow and ice; changes in the frequency and/or intensity of extreme weather events such as floods and droughts; and changes to ecosystems and biodiversity patterns.
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Time: 13 June 2011, Monday, 18:15-19:45 pm Place: Room METRO (MoT)
To meet the commitments related to water resources in the Convention and the Cancun Agreements, concrete actions by the Parties are urgently required. The projected impacts of water related hazards due to climate change include: sea level
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UNFCCC update from Bonn: Substance in the SBSTA?
09/06/11 09:46
Recent entries here have described a process which has been in preparation for some time but is now, finally, under active debate in the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC): the development of a coherent “water program” under a group called the SBSTA to integrate climate change adaptation and mitigation activities. Background entries can be found here and here.
Alex Simalabwi is the UNFCCC negotiator at the Global Water Partnership and he was a fellow rapporteur on the “coping with climate change” theme last year at Stockholm World Water Week (you can see us pictured together in the report we put together). Alex is now in Bonn at the UNFCCC meeting and has been sending reports to a small group of colleagues about the SBSTA meetings over recent days.
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Alex Simalabwi is the UNFCCC negotiator at the Global Water Partnership and he was a fellow rapporteur on the “coping with climate change” theme last year at Stockholm World Water Week (you can see us pictured together in the report we put together). Alex is now in Bonn at the UNFCCC meeting and has been sending reports to a small group of colleagues about the SBSTA meetings over recent days.
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