world water week
Video: Climate adaptation in Rwanda
06/09/11 07:54
I recently came back from Stockholm World Water Week, which as always was an intense, hyperactive experience. But I caught up with my old friend Mark Chalmers from the WaterCube.tv. He’s one of the most thoughtful people I know about communicating climate adaptation and water issues, and he’s built an amazing little empire out of the process. There’s a lot on the WaterCube site that’s worth browsing. More on that later, in another entry. But he always manages to catch me on tape. This time, we talked about some of the remarkable experiences that have been coming from the little nation of Rwanda, most famous for the genocides that occurred there in the early 1990s. I recently led a vulnerability assessment for the World Bank’s Global Environment Facility and the Rwanda Environment Management Agency (REMA) of the country’s wetlands and the livelihoods and industries and ecosystems dependent on those wetlands. It’s a good story. I also talk about the Alliance for Global Water Adaptation (http://alliance4water.org), that I helped found in 2010 and the progress of the past year.
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The Stockholm Statement from World Water Week
05/09/11 11:08
The Stockholm Statement to the 2012 United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development in Rio de Janeiro (Rio+20 Summit)
Water is the bloodstream of the green economy. Water, energy and food are interlinked and interdependent; securing them is central to alleviating poverty and to creating a climate resilient and robust green economy. Population growth, expanding cities and accelerating economic activity increase the demand for energy and food and create unsustainable pressure on our water and land resources. By 2030, in a business as usual scenario, humanity’s demand for water could outstrip supply by as much as 40 per cent. This would place water, energy and food security at risk, increase public health costs, constrain economic development, lead to social and geopolitical tensions and cause lasting environmental damage.
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Water is the bloodstream of the green economy. Water, energy and food are interlinked and interdependent; securing them is central to alleviating poverty and to creating a climate resilient and robust green economy. Population growth, expanding cities and accelerating economic activity increase the demand for energy and food and create unsustainable pressure on our water and land resources. By 2030, in a business as usual scenario, humanity’s demand for water could outstrip supply by as much as 40 per cent. This would place water, energy and food security at risk, increase public health costs, constrain economic development, lead to social and geopolitical tensions and cause lasting environmental damage.
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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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