global public policy network on water management

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global public policy network on water management
gppn

• Water and Climate Change Adaptation Key
  Messages for COP-15

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GPPN Backgroundjoint initiative of
Stakeholder Forum and Stockholm International
Water Instituteto consult and work with global
stakeholders on priorities for the global water
and sanitation agenda, and help communicate those
priorities to decision-makerskey focus in 2009
on building broad stakeholder participation on
water and climate change issues ahead of
COP-15 
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Multi-stakeholder Initiative

• Consulted broad range of stakeholders on water
  and climate change across Major Groups,
  including
• Farmers
• Trade Unions
• Women
• Science and Technology
• Local Authorities
• NGOs
• Business
• Youth
• Indigenous Peoples 
• Also includes UN agencies.

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Key Messages

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• Problems/Issues
• Climate change adaptation IS water adaptation
• Water and its availability and quality will be
  the main pressures on, and issues for, societies
  and the environment under climate change
• Climate change impacts on water resources will
  present obstacles to achieving the MDGs, due to
  reduced water availability, flooding, lower food
  production and extreme weather events.
• Adaptation must address the water sector as a
  priority

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• Good Governance
• Develop national and cross-sectoral Climate
  Change Adaptation Plans with Water Management as
  a cross-cutting consideration system wide
  approach with water as central.
• Strengthen institutional capacity to integrate
  climate change adaptation into existing water
  management plans and policies
• Empower local communities and stakeholders to
  participate in water resources planning and
  management for climate change adaptation scale
  up local coping strategies and techniques, build
  on traditional knowledge.
• Strengthen mechanisms for effective transboundary
  water management arrangements build capacity for
  agreeing legal frameworks, recognise role of UN
  Watercourses Convention, re-negotiate existing
  transboundary water management agreements.

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Effective Water Management

• Integrated Water Resources Management provides
  good framework for adapting to climate impacts on
  water resources.
• Institute effective demand-management measures
  including efficiency-enhancing technologies
  across all sectors, incentives for efficient
  water-usage, increased storage capacity
• Take an ecosystem approach Adaptation planning
  must integrate the preservation and restoration
  of ecosystems as part of an investment in natural
  and environmental infrastructure for climate
  resilience. Natural ecosystems must be recognized
  as water customers in their own right..
• Address future uncertainty to avoid
  Maladaptation avoid measures that lead to
  enhanced water supply in the short term, but
  increased water consumption or maladaptation in
  the long-term

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• Information, Observation, Monitoring and Impact
  Assessment
• Invest in improved meteorological information,
  systematic observation and forecasting services
  enhance collection of localised data enhance
  capacity for data analysis and transfer relevant
  technology for doing so.
• Enhance availability of and access to data Make
  existing data more widely available, especially
  to poor and vulnerable communities Share
  hydrological data in and among regions in
  accordance with WMO Resolution 25 on free and
  open exchange of hydrological data.
• Identify Hotspots Regional, country and
  community level vulnerability hotspots must be
  identified so that resources might be channelled
  accordingly. Further assessment must also be made
  to identify priority countries and communities.

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• Fair and Equitable Finance
• Funding for Climate Change Adaptation must be new
  and additional to Official Development Assistance
  (ODA)
• Integrate and Mainstream Climate Change
  Adaptation into Existing Funds for Water
  Management integrate climate change adaptation
  into existing funding streams for water
  management. Consider adaptive water management as
  a priority for other water-reliant sectors.
• Prioritize water sector in Adaptation Funding
  The UNFCCC Adaptation Fund should prioritise
  water management for the spending of funds for
  climate change adaptation.
• Create a well-governed and coherent adaptation
  architecture define roles and responsibilities
  of various funds .

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• Way Forward for COP-15
• Develop (online) resource to promote information
  sharing among diversity of initiatives, provide
  updates on COP-15 process, information on
  negotiations and entry points for water and
  climate change adaptation.
• Convene workshop prior to June Bonn Meeting, with
  negotiators and stakeholders focussing on Water
  and Climate Change Adaptation including Danish
  Initiative
• Co-ordinate strategy meetings on water and
  climate change at COP-15 and related preparatory
  meetings
• Seek co-ordination among stakeholders on
  development of draft text for negotiations.
• Generate sense of water community at COP-15
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Thank you! Hannah Stoddart GPPN
Secretariat hstoddart_at_stakeholderforum.org http/
/gppn.stakeholderforum.org