The Australian Water Partnership is hosting a 90-minute storytelling virtual event to highlight voices and stories from the Asia-Pacific region. As a socio-ecological approach is needed to understand climate risk in our region, and design effective solutions, we will learn through case studies about locally led adaptation in water.

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Join the launch of the Glasgow Declaration for Fair Water Footprints at COP26, a breakthrough moment for climate resilience and global water justice. The Declaration follows the call to action from UK Minister Lord Goldsmith in August to ensure responsible water use throughout our globalised supply chains, to protect nature and human rights, and accelerate attainment of the Global Goals.

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Join the launch of the Glasgow Declaration for Fair Water Footprints at COP26, a breakthrough moment for climate resilience and global water justice. The Declaration follows the call to action from UK Minister Lord Goldsmith in August to ensure responsible water use throughout our globalised supply chains, to protect nature and human rights, and accelerate attainment of the Global Goals. The founding signatories, including the governments of the UK, Malawi, Peru, Madagascar and Finland together with progressive companies and financiers are committed to zero pollution, sustainable withdrawals, full WASH access, nature-based solutions and drought and flood mitigation within their supply chains by 2030, and invite all stakeholders to join them, to lead us to the fairer water future we all need.

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This event showcases the UK’s proactive steps to build adaptive capacity and reduce climate risk to communities both domestically and internationally through risk assessments, action-oriented research and knowledge exchange. The panel discussion will draw on findings from the third Independent Assessment of UK Climate Risk published in 2021. The event is co-organised by Defra, FCDO, CCC, the Met Office and the University of Exeter.

Speakers:

• Jo Churchill MP is the Parliamentary Under Secretary of State at the Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs (Defra).
• Professor Gideon Henderson, CSA, Defra.
• Dr Rosalind West, Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (FCDO)
• Dr Ana Maria Loboguerrero Rodriguez, Head of Global Policy Research, International Center for Tropical Agriculture
• Baroness Brown, Chair, Adaptation Committee, UK Climate Change Committee
• Professor Richard Betts, Head of Climate Impacts Research at the Met Office Hadley Centre and Char in Climate Impacts at the University of Exeter

Further information:

• This event will be held in the blue zone at COP26 and therefore in person attendance will require accreditation, these are not open to the public.

• • To note: These tickets can't guarantee in-person attendance as there is a limit to the room capacity.
• A breakfast reception will precede this event from 8:00-9:00, showcasing video materials from our co-organisers with an opportunity to socialise. Refreshments will be provided.

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Highlighting the critical role of water in relation to both Adaptation and Loss and Damage is essential if practical solutions are to be found. This session draws on the breadth of expertise and experience in the UNESCO Water Family and examines possible ways forward from around the world, especially in relation to governance.

Watch live: Climate Change and Water: The Missing Agenda at COP26 on Vimeo

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It's vital for us to reimagine the way we live to support responsible consumption and tackle the climate crisis. Scotland can lead the way, embedding the circular economy in towns, cities and regions. Zero Waste Scotland is working with councils, local authorities and businesses to drive this shift.

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Organisers: RAMSAR Convention; BirdLife International; International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN); International Water Management Institute (IWMI); Wetlands International (WI); Wildfowl & Wetlands Trust (WWT); World

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Aiming to put forward the question of leadership and recognize those who drive change on the ground, the event will present the journeys of Water ChangeMaker Awards winners. The theme of the day focuses on Adaptation & Resilience and the stories presented will bring excellent insights specifically around climate change and resilient water management, solving challenges by uniting through action.

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Water Pavilion: Virtual Meeting Details (waterforclimate.net)

Scotland’s buoyant reuse sector and our growing circular economy already provide us with more sustainable options to buy the things we really need.  This event will showcase real examples of businesses that have adopted circular strategies into their business model and how it has impacted their growth.

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This event at COP26 will showcase a new capacity building program under the leadership of the UNFCCC. The CASTT Adaptation Academy provides in-depth training and cross-country exchanges to those involved in national adaptation planning, implementation, and reporting. The event will highlight the Adaptation Academy’s value in building a community of practice among national adaptation focal points and others involved in climate programs.

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The Water Resilience Assessment Framework (WRAF) is a high-level framework that seeks to prevent shocks and stresses from becoming crises. This session will seek to explore the bounds of resilience thinking and seek input on how to continue to grow and foster resilience.

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This session will focus entirely on groundwater and the critical role it plays in climate change mitigation, resilience and adaptation. 

Water Pavilion: Virtual Meeting Details (waterforclimate.net)

Scotland has decarbonised its grid faster than most, however the reality is that four-fifths of our carbon footprint comes from consumption. This event will explore themes in the Decoupling Report, produced by Zero Waste Scotland and its Decoupling Advisory Group and look at how we can support GDP growth by focusing on a circular and wellbeing economy.

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The Water Resilience Assessment Framework (WRAF) is a high-level framework that seeks to prevent shocks and stresses from becoming crises. It aims to facilitate a shared understanding of water system resilience and allow practitioners to develop common measurable goals and outcomes for stakeholder and resilience planning. The WRAF guides users through a process of visualizing the system, developing a resilience strategy, testing the resilience strategy and evaluating the outcomes in order to build system-wide resilience. The WRAF makes resilience a predictable outcome in an unpredictable world, which is increasingly important as climate change continues to alter how we make water management decisions. This session will seek to explore the bounds of resilience thinking and seek input on how to continue to grow and foster resilience.

The session will introduce the framework and how it can be used to build resilience and support climate change adaptation goals. A panel of cross-sectoral experts will further elaborate on the gap that the WRAF fills and how they would use it in their own work. Concluding remarks will focus on the path forward and a call to action

The Global Innovation Fund and Global Resilience Partnership will be joined by a range of expert panelists for a wide-ranging discussion exploring how the development community can accelerate global progress by funding evidence-based innovation focused on climate adaptation and resilience, how innovation is a cost-effective vehicle for delivering social impact, and how we can most effectively support low- and lower-middle-income countries to cope with the worst effects of climate change.  

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