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Bridging the Climate and Water Agenda UNDP and UN-Water priorities Barcelona, November 2009. Joakim Harlin Senior Water Resources Advisor Water Governance Programme. A world rich in water for some. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
Joakim HarlinSenior Water Resources AdvisorWater Governance Programme
Bridging the Climate and Water Agenda
UNDP and UN-Water priorities
Barcelona, November 2009
A world rich in water for some
Source: Comprehensive Assessment of Water Management in Agriculture, 2007.
…But millions of the world’s people lack access to safe water not because
of scarcity, but because they are locked out by poverty, inequality and failures
of governance.
UNDP Human Development Report 2006UNDP Human Development Report 2006
Multiple Drivers
Sector Oriented
Governance
Water Related Climate Change Impacts
TEMPERTURE, PRECIPTION, EVAPOTRANSPIRATION
Water Agriculture Health Infrastructure Energy
•Hydropower•Thermal Cooling
•Transportation•Urban Storm water•Flood Control•Dams, pipes and canals etc
•Malaria•Waterborne diseases
•Irrigation -Net Crop Water Demand•Rain fed• Yield Impacts
•Runoff•Water Supply/Yield•Floods & Droughts•Water Quality•Erosion
Mean annual changesChanges in seasonality
Changes in inter-annual variabilityChanges in intensity
Changes in extreme events
Ecosystem collapse
Storm intensification
Drought
Air, water pollution
Fires
Glacial outbursts
Flooding, inundation
Desertification
Heat waves
Monsoon change
Coral loss
Fisheries disruption
Hydrological, glacial changes
Warming, glacial retreat
Disease range expansion
Drought
Impacts on water resources affects the poor
• Water scarcity
• Floods & extreme weather
• Water related diseases
• Sea level rise
Towards adaptation apartheid
• 1 in 19 people in developing countries vs 1 in 1,500 in developed countries affected by disasters
• Poor predisposed to convert risk into vulnerability
• Long term effects –Indian women born during a flood in 1970s -19% less likely to attend school
• US$279 million pledged -10% delivered
Promoting coherence in and coordination of,UN system actions
• UN Agencies and ProgramsUN Agencies and Programs
• Non-UN PartnersNon-UN Partners
FAO, UNESCO, WHO, WMO,
UNEP, UNDP, UNICEF,
...24 Agencies
GWP, WWC, SIWI,
...and others
A strategic joint framework of activities, e.g.Focus Areas•Adaptation (collectively)•Technology Transfer (UNIDO, UN-DESA)•Reduction of emissions from deforestation and degradation (REDD) (UNDP, FAO, UNEP)•Financing mitigation and adaptation action (UNDP, World Bank Group)•Capacity Building (UNDP, UNEP)
Cross-cutting areas include:•Climate knowledge: Science, assessment, monitoring and early warning (WMO, UNESCO)•Support global, regional and national action (UNDESA, UN Regional Commissions, UNDP)•Public awareness (UNCG, UNEP)
The UN System Delivering as One....
Supporting Adaptation
anticipatory
ad hoc deliberative
reactive
Historical experience
Disaster response
Adaptation projects
Through adaptation interventions we are attempting to move from reactive and ad hoc toward anticipatory & deliberative adaptation
No-regrets
Climate change impact
Current climate variability impact on water resources
Current ability to cope with variability and manage water
resources
Adaptation response
Paradigm Shift
Climate change impact
Current climate
variability impact on
water resources
Current ability to cope with variability and
manage water resources
Adaptation response
Climate change impact
• Raise awareness of water and climate issues and integrate climate change consideration into water governance reform, participatory scenario planning and capacity building for WRM & WSS
• Enhance national capacities in the developing countries to mainstream climate change into water resource management and decision making processes
• Assess financing requirements, sources and flows for adaptation response measures
For CC-Water UNDPs role is to:
• Support vertically integrated development, coordination and implementation of water related CC adaptation strategies – transboundary, national, local scales (IWRM).
• Capacity building and knowledge management.
• Facilitate a coordinated UN system support at national level
UNDPs role, cont.
• A training manual on IWRM and Climate Change has been developed by Cap-Net with WMO, UNESCO-IHE.
• Training materials on urban flood management, community flood management, integrated flood management etc by Cap-Net.
• The UNDP adaptation portfolio is worth approximately 200 million USD of which 14 M USD are water related adaptation projects. 58 countries.
• UNDP supports 29 Least Developed Countries to prepare (NAPAs), & assists with the implementation of identified adaptation priorities.
Examples of UNDP CC-A actions
Some good news … Good investment!
Water and sanitation investments generate broad economic benefits that considerably outweigh the costs. The average economic benefit of a $1 investment in sanitation is $9.1 return and $4.4 on water
Global commitment to make rapid progress!Water and sanitation impacts all the MDG’s - goal 7 is about halving, by 2015, the proportion of people without safe drinking water and basic sanitation.
More sustainable water resources management – advancing IWRM
TO MAKE IT HAPPEN….
It is imperative to recognize the pivotal role of water in
adapting to climate change in order to increase resilience
and achieve sustainable development!