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 ...
Reduce demand for fresh water
Water utilities need to increase the reuse of treated water and find ways to deal with sludge, to reduce the demand for freshwater and the release of poorly treated or untreated water in water bodies ...
Ideas for addressing... Ecosystems Management
Ecosystems management is an approach to maintaining or restoring the composition, structure, function, and delivery of services of natural and modified ecosystems for the goal of achieving ...
Ideas for addressing... Energy Security
Energy security is the uninterrupted availability of energy sources at an affordable price” and involves the reliable and uninterrupted supply, at affordable and competitive prices, and accessible to ...
Ideas for addressing... Water Security
Water security is the capacity of a population to safeguard sustainable access to adequate quantities of acceptable quality water for sustaining livelihoods, human well-being, and socio-economic ...
Ideas for addressing... Food Security
Food security is “a situation that exists when all people, at all times, have physical, social and economic access to sufficient, safe and nutritious food that meets their dietary needs and food ...
Ideas for addressing... The Water-Energy-Food (WEF) Nexus
Water-Energy-Food (WEF) nexus is the recognition that water, energy and food are related subsystems. Choices and actions in any of these domains can affect the others (positively as well as negatively ...
Ideas for addressing... Public Health
Public health is “the art and science of preventing disease, prolonging life and promoting health through the organized efforts of society”. Activities to strengthen public health capacities and ...
The Lab opens call for sustainable investment ideas
The Global Innovation Lab for Climate Finance (the Lab), an investor network that incubates and launches promising investment solutions to address climate change in developing countries, recently ...
World Toilet Day 2020
The resolution declaring World Toilet Day titled, ‘Sanitation for All’ (A/RES/67/291), was adopted on 24 July 2013. The resolution urges UN Member States and relevant stakeholders to encourage ...
Call for Innovations: Water and Energy for Food Innovations in West Africa
Does your innovation contribute to producing more food and to the sustainable use of natural resources? Do you want to scale up your innovation? Apply to the Water and Energy for Food call for ...
WaterEnergyNexus 2020
The WaterEnergyNEXUS is one of the most important and priority issue to be resolved for both current and next generations. The University of Sfax (Tunisia) in cooperation with Sanitary Environmental ...
Webinar: Water, Energy, Food Nexus and the Covid-19 pandemic
The water energy food (WEF) nexus approach has received growing attention and has been subject to research in Southern Africa. For its operationalisation, the nexus approach challenges existing ...
First Africa Conference on Water Security and Aquatic Ecosystem Management (AWSAM-2020) & 8th China-Africa Water Forum
AWSAM 2020 is a joint conference organized by Africa Centre of Excellence for Water Management (ACEWM) of the Addis Ababa University and the China-Africa Water Association (CAWA). This conference will ...
Kenya maps first 'Climate Atlas' to battle future food losses
Climate change is taking a toll across east Africa and increasingly erratic weather is becoming commonplace in countries such as Kenya, Somalia, Uganda and Ethiopia Kenya will launch its first ...
Webinar: Peatland mapping and monitoring
In the wake of a mounting global climate crisis, ecosystem restoration has become a priority mandate for policymakers around the world, ultimately leading to the declaration of the United Nations ...
EU provides €40 million to boost sustainable fisheries and aquaculture in Africa, the Caribbean and the Pacific
The EU, the African, Caribbean and Pacific Group of States (ACP) and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) have signed a €40 million, five-year programme to boost the ...
Provide guidance on how to increase aquaculture productivity
River basin organisations need insights in order to provide guidance on how to increase aquaculture productivity (e.g. seed, feed, control of diseases, permaculture) for increased yield given the ...
