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Towards water security and climate resilience in support of national development
Water, Climate and Developement
June 2, Bonn-Germany
Alex [email protected]
Key Question...?
How can water be integrated in climate change strategies?
Some Perspective
Water is ‘NOT’ about Climate change!
Some Perspective
Water is about Development
food
energy
mining
deltas
tourism
Fisheries
Environment
Tourism Industry
Finance
Agriculture
Energy
Water Key inDevelopment
Fisheries
Environment
Tourism Industry
Finance
Agriculture
Energy
Water Key inDevelopment
Climate Change threatens Development
The big picture
Getting it all wrong?
Focusing on getting water into climate change strategies is a ‘wrong diagnosis’
• Focusing on getting ‘water’ into climate change strategies may be okay…but not good enough
• What happens when the climate change strategy is not addressing govt development priorities?
What is key?
• Understand govt development priorities
• Strengthen water in development planning and decision making processes in support of government development priorities
• Climate change
• Population growth
• Urbanisation
• Food
Big ticket items to changing the
water discourse
Need to adresss all these issues in bigger developement perspective
What needs to be done
•Target development planners and decision makers at all levels
Develop sound economic arguments why ignoring water is dangerous
Beyond COP 15 dialogues in Africa and China- 3 main reccomendations
1. Integrate water security and climate change into development planning and decision making processes at all levels
2. Develop institutional, stakeholder capacity and partnerships to integrate water security and climate change in development and decision making processes.. Build resilience, reduce fragmentation
3. Mobilise finance and develop financing strategies for water security and adaptation to climate change
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Political process… ……remember COP 15
Technical process ……engage in the technical processes of climate change
2 Track Process to make it happen
Get the COP people, Water people, development people…talking
Final Word
These people ‘live’ in 3 different worlds and this needs to change before we see the change we desire
Global Water Partnership
COP People
Global Water Partnership
water People
Global Water Partnership
Developement people
Details on the outcome of the Dialogues in Africa and China to be continued in a Side Event on
June 7 @ 1-2.30 pm