Report: The essential drop to reach Net-Zero: Unpacking Freshwater’s Role in Climate Change Mitigation
On 9 November, SIWI’s Dr Malin Lundberg Ingemarsson and Professor Johan Rockström presented a landmark report titled The essential drop to reach Net-Zero: Unpacking Freshwater’s Role in Climate Change ...
African Handbook of Climate Change Adaptation
The open access African Handbook of Climate Change Adaptation presents deep coverage of climate change adaptation in Africa, detailing evidence from international studies and projects across the ...
KidronNar Project Flyer – Citizen Observatories for Decentralised Wastewater Management in Palestine
In the Wadi El Nar river basin, the KidronNar project helped to set up citizen observatories to create awareness about the sources, amounts and uses of water and, ultimately, contribute to the ...
Fostering uptake of innovations and solutions for water and climate challenges in Africa: Lessons from the AfriAlliance Knowledge Brokerage Events
How can the uptake of innovations for water and climate change challenges be supported? To address water and climate change-related challenges in Africa, there is a need to identify and scale ...
Publication: Analysing the value of environmental citizen-generated data: Complementarity and cost per observation
A key question in citizen science is: what is the value of environmental citizen-generated data? In this recent paper "Analysing the value of environmental citizen-generated data: Complementarity and ...
International Climate Change Information and Research Programme Climate Adaptation Publications
COP26 held in Glasgow witnessed the launch of two major, peer-reviewed volumes on climate change adaptation, produced by a team of researchers associated with the International Climate Change ...
OECD Report Series: Water Governance in African Cities
Water is essential for economic growth, human health, and the environment. Yet governments around the world face significant challenges in managing their water resources effectively. The problems are ...
Summary Progress Update 2021: SDG 6 — water and sanitation for all
The monitoring of progress towards SDG 6 is a means to successfully achieving all eight SDG 6 targets. Credible and timely water and sanitation data provide numerous social, economic, and ...
Climate risks in Tunisia: Challenges to adaptation in the agri-food system
Tunisia’s agricultural system is central to the stability of the country, but it is also extremely prone to climate risks such as droughts and reduced or more variable rainfall. It is predicted that ...
Article: Strengthening the knowledge base to face the impacts of climate change on water resources in Africa: a social innovation perspective
The open access version of the article Strengthening the knowledge base to face the impacts of climate change on water resources in Africa: a social innovation perspective is now available online! The ...
Publication: Frequently Asked Questions on the 1992 Water Convention
UNECE have recently developed the new publication “Frequently Asked Questions on the 1992 Water Convention” devoted to the Convention on the Protection and Use of Transboundary Watercourses and ...
Report: From reference levels to results reporting: REDD+ under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change: 2020 update
The new FAO publication “From reference levels to results reporting: REDD+ under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change: 2020 update” is now available to download! This report ...
Call for Papers: Special Issue "Management of Water-Energy-Food Security Nexus"
The open access journal Water (ISSN 2073-4441, IF 2.544), has announced a new Special Issue entitled "Management of Water-Energy-Food Security Nexus". Prof. Larry Swatuk and Dr. Corrine Cash are ...
WEF Report: The Future Of Nature And Business
The World Economic Forum (WEF) has released a new report titled: "The Future of Nature and Business", which focuses on the business opportunities offered by making the systemic changes needed to ...
Sustainable Development Report (SDR) 2020
The Sustainable Development Report 2020 presents the SDG Index and Dashboards for all UN member states and frames the implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in terms of six broad ...
Scaling Local and Community-Based Adaptation
The Global Commission on Adaptation have published a new paper, titled: Scaling Local and Community-Based Adaptation. This paper examines the local and community-based nature of climate change ...
Results Pack: Water innovation for Africa: Sustainable solutions for water management
Water innovation for Africa: Sustainable solutions for water management In March 2020, the European Commission and the High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy proposed the basis ...
Report: Common Ground Between the Paris Agreement and the Sendai Framework: Climate Change Adaptation and Disaster Risk Reduction
The OECD Secretariat is pleased to announce the release of the report Common Ground Between the Paris Agreement and the Sendai Framework: Climate Change Adaptation and Disaster Risk Reduction. Below ...
