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Pat Mulroy - Part 2: Adapting the Invisible Utility
21/10/11 22:28
Part 2 — Institutions and Infrastructure
Expanding on topics brought up in Part 1, water manager Pat Mulroy explores in Institutions and Infrastructure how the policy, governance, and history of the Colorado river region are interacting with the “new normal” water-scarce conditions.
How are ordinary people and decision makers responding to a long drought? How do we pursue consensus over conflict? While institutions can shift, bend, and anticipate, water infrastructure like dams, pipes, and valves are far more fixed and rigid. If they weren’t designed for current (or projected) conditions, then how can people either adjust to inefficiency or modify that infrastructure? Perhaps most importantly, how do we begin to think about sustainability in the context of a shifting climate?
For more information and background on the Colorado River and the Southern Nevada Water Authority, select Read More. Read More...
Expanding on topics brought up in Part 1, water manager Pat Mulroy explores in Institutions and Infrastructure how the policy, governance, and history of the Colorado river region are interacting with the “new normal” water-scarce conditions.
How are ordinary people and decision makers responding to a long drought? How do we pursue consensus over conflict? While institutions can shift, bend, and anticipate, water infrastructure like dams, pipes, and valves are far more fixed and rigid. If they weren’t designed for current (or projected) conditions, then how can people either adjust to inefficiency or modify that infrastructure? Perhaps most importantly, how do we begin to think about sustainability in the context of a shifting climate?
For more information and background on the Colorado River and the Southern Nevada Water Authority, select Read More. Read More...
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Pat Mulroy - Part 1: Adapting the Invisible Utility
20/10/11 04:50
Part 1 — Connections and Threats
Pat Mulroy manages water over a vast piece of real estate in the southwestern United States. But — as she will quickly make clear — there isn’t a lot of water there. There never was much water there, in fact. As a result, the cities, farms, and factories spanning the greater Colorado River basin have learned to live with less. The best of them have also learned to be efficient and smart in their growth. But the past twelve years have either been a drought or the start of a new normal, where only a few inches of rain each year became even less. That’s the threat.
As a result, the region whose water is governed by the Southern Nevada Water Authority that Pat manages has had to look beyond its borders for allies and cooperation. The stability, security, and growth of economic engines such as Las Vegas depend on these alliances. Those are the connections.
In the first of three videos presented here, Pat discusses the actual and virtual basin where southern Nevada is embedded.
For more information and background on the Colorado River and the Southern Nevada Water Authority, select Read More. Read More...
Pat Mulroy manages water over a vast piece of real estate in the southwestern United States. But — as she will quickly make clear — there isn’t a lot of water there. There never was much water there, in fact. As a result, the cities, farms, and factories spanning the greater Colorado River basin have learned to live with less. The best of them have also learned to be efficient and smart in their growth. But the past twelve years have either been a drought or the start of a new normal, where only a few inches of rain each year became even less. That’s the threat.
As a result, the region whose water is governed by the Southern Nevada Water Authority that Pat manages has had to look beyond its borders for allies and cooperation. The stability, security, and growth of economic engines such as Las Vegas depend on these alliances. Those are the connections.
In the first of three videos presented here, Pat discusses the actual and virtual basin where southern Nevada is embedded.
For more information and background on the Colorado River and the Southern Nevada Water Authority, select Read More. Read More...
Guest blog: "Loss & damage" and adaptation at COP16
09/12/10 09:11
Sandeep Chamling Rai, WWF-International, lead climate adaptation negotiator for WWF
Even with ambitious mitigation and adaptation efforts take us off business-as-usual trajectory with 4+ degrees Celsius there will still be residual loss and damage resulting from climate change impacts due to existing greenhouse gas emissions in the atmosphere. Impacts such as sea level rise, glacial retreat, ocean acidification, loss of biodiversity, land and forest degradation in many or all cases cannot be prevented. An international mechanism on “Loss and Damage” would address the question of how to compensate for climate impacts that simply cannot be avoided and those that are irrevocable.
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Even with ambitious mitigation and adaptation efforts take us off business-as-usual trajectory with 4+ degrees Celsius there will still be residual loss and damage resulting from climate change impacts due to existing greenhouse gas emissions in the atmosphere. Impacts such as sea level rise, glacial retreat, ocean acidification, loss of biodiversity, land and forest degradation in many or all cases cannot be prevented. An international mechanism on “Loss and Damage” would address the question of how to compensate for climate impacts that simply cannot be avoided and those that are irrevocable.
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Guest blog: Bridging the water & climate divide
08/12/10 08:49
Hannah Stoddart, Head of Policy and Advocacy, Stakeholder Forum
The closing plenary of the Subsidiary Body for Scientific and Technological Advice (SBSTA) on Saturday 4th December represented a major breakthrough for water in relation to the UNFCCC. Six countries, from across three continents, proposed that water be addressed as an agenda item under the next session of the SBSTA in June 2011.
The proposal was put forward by Ecuador and Sudan, and supported by Chile, El Salvador, Sierra Leone and Syria. This is the first time that countries have called for water to put on the global climate agenda, and should be seen as a major achievement.
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The closing plenary of the Subsidiary Body for Scientific and Technological Advice (SBSTA) on Saturday 4th December represented a major breakthrough for water in relation to the UNFCCC. Six countries, from across three continents, proposed that water be addressed as an agenda item under the next session of the SBSTA in June 2011.
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COP16: Minsterial-presidential high-level panel on water & climate
07/12/10 11:09
Program of the High-Level Panel on Water and Climate Change
Mexican Pavilion, Cancunmesse, Cancun, Mexico Wednesday December 8, 9:00 – 11:00
Aims and objectives:
Present the key messages coming from the first week of the Dialogs for Water and Climate (D4WCC), for them to be debated between a select group of decision-makers made up of representatives of national governments, intergovernmental organizations, IFIs and NGOs.
Reinforce the political commitment needed for water-based adaptation to climate change to be formally recognized as a necessary measure to face the growing consequences of climate change, which will further help the climate change adaptation debate.
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Mexican Pavilion, Cancunmesse, Cancun, Mexico Wednesday December 8, 9:00 – 11:00
Aims and objectives:
Present the key messages coming from the first week of the Dialogs for Water and Climate (D4WCC), for them to be debated between a select group of decision-makers made up of representatives of national governments, intergovernmental organizations, IFIs and NGOs.
Reinforce the political commitment needed for water-based adaptation to climate change to be formally recognized as a necessary measure to face the growing consequences of climate change, which will further help the climate change adaptation debate.
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COP16: A little progress on water
06/12/10 09:23
On Saturday night, a Chilean negotiator saw me at a party and ran over and gave me a huge, celebratory hug. I handed him a huge margarita. We toasted in the name of el Agua. Why would this happen? I can promise it was not my svelte, smooth sense of fashion and style.
The reason is that on Saturday, after long lobbying, Ecuador moved that water be added to the SBSTA under the UN climate group (the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, or UNFCCC). Six nations stood up with Ecuador. About 10 others were prepared to follow up with that. And, tacitly, many others supported the motion too.
Why does that matter? Read More...
The reason is that on Saturday, after long lobbying, Ecuador moved that water be added to the SBSTA under the UN climate group (the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, or UNFCCC). Six nations stood up with Ecuador. About 10 others were prepared to follow up with that. And, tacitly, many others supported the motion too.
Why does that matter? Read More...
Guest blog: Water begins to enter the UN climate negotiations
06/12/10 09:15
Countries Call for Water to be Addressed in the Climate Negotiations
by Lovisa Selander, SIWI
Over the weekend, six countries from around the world at COP16, the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Cancun, called for water to be put on the climate agenda. The countries highlighted the fact that climate change stands to have a significant impact on water resources, and stressed the need for further discussions on how this issue can be addressed within the climate framework. Read More...
by Lovisa Selander, SIWI
Over the weekend, six countries from around the world at COP16, the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Cancun, called for water to be put on the climate agenda. The countries highlighted the fact that climate change stands to have a significant impact on water resources, and stressed the need for further discussions on how this issue can be addressed within the climate framework. Read More...
COP16: GWP climate-water session
05/12/10 16:11
Side Event at COP16, Cancun, Mexico on 6 December 2010
Water, Climate and Development: Linking up Development Agendas and Putting Water Security First
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COP16: Dialogs for Water & Climate Change in Cancun
30/11/10 09:14
Please accept an invitation to take part in the Dialogs for Water and Climate Change (D4WCC) on the occasion of the COP 16, a series of events organized between December 1st and 6th by a group of partners, led by the National Water Commission of Mexico (CONAGUA), and including specific segments organized by the Mexican Federal Government, the World Bank, UN Water, IDB, and other partners. You will find more information on the events on www.d4wcc.org.mx.
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COP16: Water & Climate Coalition events
29/11/10 12:48
Welcome to the Water and Climate Coalition’s Events at COP-16, Cancun
Coalition session as part of CONAGUA Dialogues on Water and Climate Change
Time: Friday 3rd December, 2.15pm
Place: Fiesta Americana Grand Coral Beach Hotel
This session, hosted by the Water and Climate Coalition, will make concrete proposals on how the issues raised and addressed in the CONAGUA Water and Climate Dialogues can be translated into political commitments under the UNFCCC. Speakers include:
• Hannah Stoddart/Karin Lexen – Water and Climate Coalition Secretariat
• Hugo Von Meijenfelt, Climate Envoy, Netherlands
• Adrián Fernández, Mexico’s National Ecological Institute
• South Africa Delegation Representative (tbc)
• Civil Society representative (Progressio)
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An invitation: A dialog on Water and Climate Change in Cancun
05/11/10 13:09
Please find attached an invitation to take part in the Dialogs for Water and Climate Change (D4WCC) on the occasion of the COP 16, a series of events organized between December 1st and 6th by a group of partners, led by the National Water Commission of Mexico, and including specific segments organized by the Mexican Federal Government, the World Bank, UN Water, IDB and other partners. You will find more information on the events on www.d4wcc.org.mx.
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NEWS: climate adaptation case studies
22/08/08 13:31
A colleague closely affiliated with WWF who is now at Australian National University has just written an excellent series of climate adaptation case studies. Read More...
