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Workshop on water and adaptation to climate change -outcomes
This document has been prepared for the Workshop on Water and Climate Adaptation (Amsterdam, 1–2 July 2008).
It is an intermediary version of the draft guidance on water and climate adaptation being prepared under the Convention on the Protection and Use of Transboundary Watercourses and International Lakes and its Protocol on Water and Health for possible adoption by the Meetings of the Parties to both instruments in 2009/2010.
The document has been jointly prepared by the Convention’s Task Force on Water and Climate and the Protocol’s Task Force on Extreme Weather Events.
The current draft is still incomplete. In particular, the final Guidance should include:
• An executive summary for policymakers;
• Examples in the Guidance text to make it more concrete;
• Case studies to be included in the annexes;
• Additional recommendations related to water supply and sanitation in extreme events (these policy recommendations should be read together with the technical and operational guidelines on water supply and sanitation in extreme weather events to be developed by the Protocol’s Task Force on Extreme Weather Events);
• Specific recommendations related to the transboundary context;
• Financial aspects, in particular approaches to costing.
The final text will also aim at being of recommendatory nature; hence some editing will done to achieve the right tone and formulation of the text.
One of the main objectives of the Workshop on Water and Climate Adaptation is to comment and review the draft guidance and to collect good practices to illustrate its principles. Workshop participants are therefore invited to provide their comments to the existing text as well as suggestions for how its content and main message should be further developed.
| Contact information |
Ella Behlyarova/Joint UNECE - WHO/EURO Protocol on Water and Health to the 1992 Convention on the Protection and Use of Transboundary Watercourses and International Lakes - UNECE secretariat
(email: Ella.Behlyarova@unece.org) Phone: Fax: + 41 22 9170107 |
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| News type | Inbrief |
| File link |
http://www.unece.org/env/water/meetings/water_climate_workshop.htm |
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| Source of information | UNECE |
| Keyword(s) | adaptation to climate change |
| Subject(s) | POLICY-WATER POLICY AND WATER MANAGEMENT , RISKS AND CLIMATOLOGY |
| Relation | http://www.semide.org/topics/climatechange |
| Geographical coverage | Netherlands |
| News date | 04/07/2008 |
| Working language(s) | ENGLISH , RUSSIAN |
