Webinar Series: Coordinating, Implementing and Financing National Climate and Water Policy Frameworks

The climate is changing so why aren’t we? This is the focus of a webinar series, co-organized by SIWI, UNDP-SIWI Water Governance Facility and others, that highlights climate and water inter-linkages and aims to contribute to improved coordination across climate and water decision-makers and professionals.

It is crucial that water is part of any conversation on addressing climate change. The climate crisis has hit faster and harder than scientists predicted, meaning that we must increase global climate commitments fivefold in the coming decade. Water-related solutions can have a great  impact as we are facing a future plagued by dramatic water extremes and disasters such as floods, cyclones, and droughts. We need to re-design societies to make them more resilient and able to respond to and increasingly unpredictable future.

Two of SIWI’s experts, Håkan Tropp and David Hebart-Coleman will be speaking at the webinars. Beyond sharing our expertise on water governance and experience with facilitating projects on a local, regional and national level, in the first seminar a practical tool for identifying climate and water inter-linkages will be introduced, complemented by this water interactions checklist.

9 July – 11.00 UTC: Water and Climate Coordination”: Supporting the NDCs under the Paris Agreement

How improved cross-sector understanding and knowledge among climate and water decision-makers and professionals contribute to improved coordination between climate change and water decision-making. It will introduce a practical tool for identifying climate and water inter-linkages.

16 July – 11.00 UTC: “Implementation”

Aims help countries to understand the different processes and tools that can help in adaptation planning and implementation, starting from the strategic level adaptation planning up to local level adaptation actions.

23 July – 11.00 UTC: “Climate finance”

Introducing the three main global climate finance mechanisms and further zoom in to the GCF – understanding its mandate, investment criteria, its operational modalities, funding windows and procedures for accessing resources for climate resilient water initiatives.