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

Questions can be tweeted to: @dundeewater 

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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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. 

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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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7:00 to 7:30 High Level panel (Dr. Mark Smith, DG, IWMI, Neeta Pokhrel, Chief of Water Sector Group, Asian Development Bank );

7:30-8:30 Panel and videos water management and agriculture- issues and solutions for the region;

8:30-9:00 Synthesis, future needs and messages to the Cop from Asia water interests

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This session brings together researchers and practitioners from Asia and Africa to discuss ongoing interventions, which range from gender-inclusive to more gender transformative.

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The Scottish Government’s Centres of Expertise (CoE) work at the interface between policy and research and provide responsive work in areas of high policy importance: climate change, animal disease outbreaks, plant health, water, knowledge exchange and impact.

Aimed at those starting out in research, this session will provide practical tips and advice for interacting and effectively communicating science , evidence, and expertise with different audiences. The workshop will have a particular focus on engaging with policy makers and working with the audience as a partner. It will also explore impact, what it means and the different forms it can take.

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Location:

University of Glasgow

Fore Hall

Glasgow

G12 8QQ

Aimed at those starting out in research, this session will provide practical tips and advice for interacting and effectively communicating science , evidence, and expertise with different audiences. The workshop will have a particular focus on engaging with policy makers and working with the audience as a partner.

To register: Knowledge Exchange and Impact – A Workshop for Students and Early Career Tickets, Tue 9 Nov 2021 at 10:00 | Eventbrite

More on SEFARI: Talking Heads: the Scottish Government Centres of Expertise - YouTube

Scientific evidence can help improve the sustainability of water use in agriculture and enhance climate adaptation and resilience. This event will present potential agricultural water management (AWM) practices that have a proven ability to enhance water resilience, increase yields, and where possible, reduce emissions.

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This session will bring together multiple stakeholders to strategize integrated land and water solutions for climate change mitigation. This includes understanding the current state of an area of land so that interventions can be prioritized and progress tracked over time, and ensuring that integrated interventions are tailored to local conditions, deliver multiple benefits and reflected in global frameworks and policies.

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The Scottish Government’s Centres of Expertise (CoE) work at the interface between policy and research and provide responsive work in areas of high policy importance drawing upon the expertise of the researchers of the Scottish Environment, Food and Agriculture Research Institutes (SEFARI), universities, government agencies and research organisations across Scotland.

The panel will include representatives from all the current Centres, SEFARI Gateway and RESAS and we will discuss how the different approaches taken have had real impact with different stakeholders, considering examples of where Scotland continues to play an important role in providing solutions to the global climate challenge.

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Location:

University of Glasgow

Fore Hall

Glasgow

G12 8QQ

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The Forth Environmental Resilience Array (Forth-ERA) is a pioneering venture led by the University of Stirling to gather and analyse water and environmental data on a catchment-wide scale. The initiative will provide industry, regulators, and communities with the insights necessary to enable a data-led transition to net-zero. Visit our exhibit to lean more: COP26 Green Zone, Glasgow Science Centre: Floor 1 Stand 6 (COP26 Universities Network). Tuesday 9th November, 14:30 – 16:00

The panel will also focus on technological and digital innovations, such as climate information services, and how they can be integrated into policy and institutional reforms to catalyze the transition towards shared prosperity. Additionally, they will discuss innovative approaches being employed by governments and businesses to put aquatic foods on a low emission pathway.

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This session will explore changing animal, plant and zoonotic (diseases that can be transmitted between animals and humans) disease threats and climate change. The focus will be on vectors (organisms that transmit a disease or parasite from one animal or plant to another) and the diseases they carry, looking at emerging trends and engagement and communication with stakeholders.

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This multi-stakeholder and multisectoral panel will draw from the interlinkages between these fields to explore synergetic solutions to improve access to safe water and nutrition in the face of climate change, building more environmentally sound and nutrition-sensitive food systems.

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This session brings together government representatives of the Global South and of the North, international partnerships hosted by the FAO, as well as business, civil society and researchers to address head on the challenge of salinity (a water scarcity and land degradation issue), which is increasingly becoming one of the important global challenges for food production and biodiversity, due to climate change with significant global impact.

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-Embedding Resilience and DRR at the national and regional level by the governments and MDBs

-Building resilience at the local level: tools, funds and best practices

-Connecting local need to the global agendas

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Water Pavilion: Virtual Meeting Details (waterforclimate.net)

Due to their geographical location, size and topographic characteristics, Small Island Developing States (SIDS) have been particularly affected by climate change. According to the recently released IPCC 6th Assessment Report, drying trends will persist in several SIDS regions, the increasing trend in temperature in the 21st century will further accrue heat stress, fewer but more intense tropical cyclones are projected, and sea level will continue to rise affecting groundwater resources. Among the impacts of climate change observed in SIDS, hydro-climatic hazards and more frequent coastal floods are the most devastating and a big threat to water security.

The Division of Water Sciences of UNESCO, aligned with its commitment to strengthen the efforts of SIDS to achieve their sustainable development, is carrying out a multidisciplinary study aimed at establishing a framework for assessing vulnerabilities to hydro-climatic hazards. This framework seeks to support SIDS in increasing their response capacity and to enhance their preparedness facing hydro-climatic hazards through a water resilience approach. Hence, it considers the hydrological, climatic, social and economic perspectives. The framework has been developed in three phases: assessment of hydro-climatic hazards, vulnerability, and policy gaps; the application of a water resilience approach to cope with the identified hydro-climatic hazards and the development of case studies including iterative feedbacks to improve the methodology.

Scotland has ambitions to become a leading hydrogen nation and this event will showcase our vision, attributes, key projects, and investment opportunities. Hear about our ambitious strategy, see case studies from Scottish and global industry leaders and understand the value of hydrogen to our economy.

In this session you'll hear from Scottish Government Cabinet Secretary Michael Matheson about Scotland’s impressive political support for hydrogen and why it is so important for the country. This will be followed by a tour of Scotland’s major hydrogen success stories and a panel debate featuring Scottish industry leaders.

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New concepts, like the ‘sponge-city’ concept, go beyond the traditional supply-collect-discharge-paradigm and propose to close urban water cycles, e.g. by decentral storage, infiltration and reuse. The session will present lessons learnt and recommendations for other cities in closing urban water cycles to build drought resilient water supplies.

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The session will bring together insights from global efforts at synthesis of adaptation experiences and reflect on the entire spectrum from effective adaptation to maladaptation with a special focus on adaptation to water-related hazards. 

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Scotland has ambitions to become a leading hydrogen nation and this event will showcase our vision, attributes, key projects, and investment opportunities. Hear about our ambitious strategy, see case studies from Scottish and global industry leaders and understand the value of hydrogen to our economy.

This session will focus on the benefits of working together globally to realise the benefits of a hydrogen economy. It will feature keynotes from leading global companies, examples of successful international collaboration and information on how Scottish Development International can provide support.

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Re-imagining and diversifying the use of the world's inland waterways is a critical part of the global effort to achieve net zero and mitigate flood risk. Scottish Canals, along with partners in the public, private and third sectors, has created Europe's first dynamic canal system in North Glasgow – the Glasgow Smart Canal – which is helping tackle health inequalities in some of Europe's most deprived communities, attract investment and create sustainable places.

Join us via our live- stream from the Scotland Climate Ambition Zone. Live stream option only for general public.

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Nature-based solutions can help build resilience for coastal communities whilst also being utilised as critical component of comprehensive risk management. Here we identify the building blocks required to use coastal ecosystems for both their mitigation and adaptation value, showcasing the elements required to design replicable and scalable solutions. Practical case study examples will be showcased from across the globe.

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Scotland has ambitions to become a leading hydrogen nation and this event will showcase our vision, attributes, key projects, and investment opportunities. Hear about our ambitious strategy, see case studies from Scottish and global industry leaders and understand the value of hydrogen to our economy.

This session will explore how the supply chain can gear up in time to deliver the hydrogen economy. It will explain how, for Scotland, this is as much an opportunity as a challenge with case studies from key upcoming projects and leading Scottish companies and a spotlight on skills requirements.

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Speakers will present on effective and scalable frameworks for assessing and addressing climate risks, identifying the policies and institutional capacity needed to more widely incorporate these approaches within national climate programs, climate finance, and the private sector.

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This event provides an overview of the World Meteorological Organization’s Hydrological Status and Outlook System (HydroSOS): A system for monitoring and predicting global freshwater hydrological conditions.

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This session will introduce a new perspective for the combined management of floods and drought, will present the application of this new perspective on a case study in the Netherlands and will describe the ongoing effort to operationalize this new perspective to help governments tackle flood and drought risks in a combined manner.  

Host:  Minna Epps, Director of IUCN Global Marine and Polar Programme

Type of event: In-person, Nature Pavilion 

Organisers: United Nations Sri Lanka, International Water Management institute (IWMI)
Speakers include: Ritesh Kumar (Director Wetlands International South Asia)
Type of event: Virtual

Live Streamed: Youtube Water Pavilion at www.waterforclimate.net (no registration required)

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This session will showcase case studies and lessons learned from around the world where urban designers and planners are placing water at the heart of urban design to respond to the climate crisis.

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The session will discuss solutions for resilient, net-zero and circular water and wastewater management in cities worldwide. Representatives from cities, national governments and the private sector will discuss challenges and opportunities for net zero circular infrastructure systems and governance solutions, while showcasing how urban water and wastewater utilities can play a role in reducing GHG emissions and increasing cost recovery.

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With increasing vulnerability to climate change, acceleration of adapation and resilience building in water and sanitation will be crucial to cities thriving in the future. Join us for a high-level roundtable with representatives from government, financing and non-government institutions on the enablers and barriers they face, and the opportunities that climate resilient sanitation presents to accelerate climate action in cities.

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With increasing vulnerability to climate change, acceleration of adapation and resilience building will be crucial to cities thriving in the future. Join us for a roundtable with city and infrastructure leaders from around the world on the role that play in contributing to the NDCs and the enablers and barriers they face in adapting and building water resilience in their cities, and hear about the role of tools and approaches, financing and capacity building initiatives in supporting their progression.

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Climate change poses a risk to our urban environment as well as human and natural systems. While mitigation can reduce climate change, it cannot avoid all impacts making adaptation activities essential. In this session we will present three case studies where cities have utilised adaptation and mitigation activities in urban water to create climate resilient pathways that reduce vulnerabilities to climate change. We will demonstrate areas of opportunity to collaborate and potential barriers to implementation as well as focus on the skills and capacity needed to deliver these programmes.

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This joint session between the Resilience Hub and Water Pavillion will begin with dialogues between cities sharing the foundational elements and opportunities for  resilience. In the second part of the session, join us for a roundtable with financial institutions, non-government organisations and practitioners on ‘what should be our shared future objectives for water resilience’ and hear about the exciting developments aiming to accelerate action in water resilience.

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Join us for the Water & Climate Pavilion's final day on transboundary cooperation and climate security! This session will provide an overview of the day's key themes and critical issues for the water community.

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Scene setting session that provides an overview of the themes of the day and some of the challenges and opportunities. Water as the key in human conflict caused by climate change.

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This session will facilitate a discussion between various River Basin Organizations around their experiences on the management and coordination of climate mitigation and adaptation projects, enabling greater transboundary climate resilience.

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Ministry of Environment and Spatial Planning, Slovenia, EC DG ENVI or DG CLIMA, Wetlands International, Secretariat of the Ramsar Convention)

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Convenors - UNICEF Regional Office for South Asia (ROSA)

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it is vital that youth is involved in dialogue, policymaking, and actions with empowerment for achieving water security, in the Mediterranean region which is the most water scarce region in the world and one of the most vulnerable to climate change and extreme weather events. Through their involvement, youth can comprehend, innovate, and adjust to the complex nature of water scarcity and climate-related challenges.

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A panel will bring together perspectives from the Alliance for Water Stewardship, SunFruits Export, the Peruvian Government (national and local) and the United Nations World Water Quality Alliance (UN WWQA), to share how new solutions are being developed among stakeholders (public sector, private sector, local and global) to build resilience to climate change and other water-related impacts in Ica, which could represent a model and opportunity for scaling water stewardship both locally and globally.

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Convenors- Tajikistan with EC IFAS, WMO, UNESCO, CAREC and World Water Council

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The new IPCC report highlights the need to understand the direct human impacts of anthropogenic climate change. Trends in migration, urbanization, food production and land use may be in response to climate vulnerability, and can also serve as risk multipliers in fragile situations. This session will convene a diverse roundtable of specialists who will help to chart a path toward “what we think we know” and “where do we need to go from here”.

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