The World Water Week in Stockholm is the leading annual global meeting place for capacity-building, partnership-building and follow-up on the implementation of international processes and programmes in water and development. The theme of the week is Progress and Prospects on Water: For a Clean and Healthy World with Special Focus on Sanitation.
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The Un-Water workplan for the 2008-2009 period is now available online. Established in 2003, UN-Water is an entity composed of the
United Nations (UN) agencies ..
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Global Monitoring Report 2008, the fifth in an annual series, is essential reading for those who wish to follow the global development agenda and debate in 2008. The year marks the midpoint toward the 2015 deadline for achieving the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). It is also an important year to work toward a consensus on how the world is going to respond to the challenge of climate change, building on the foundation laid at the Bali climate change conference in December 2007. The report sp more...
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Safer water for better health -- the first-ever report depicting country-by-country estimates of the burden of disease due to water, sanitation and hygiene highlights how much disease could be prevented through increased access to safe water and better hygiene.
This comprehensive overview provides the epidemiological evidence and economic arguments for fully integrating water, sanitation and hygiene in countries' disease reduction strategies -- a pre-requisite to achieving the Millennium Deve more...
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The latest IPCC Technical Paper on Climate Change and Water will be presented at World Water Week, scheduled to take place from 17-23 August 2008, in Stockholm, Sweden.
The Co-operative Programme on Water and Climate, the German Federal Ministry of Environmental Cooperation and Development, the German Federal Ministry for the Environment, the Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety, the Stockholm International Water Institute and other participating organizations will organize a two-day Water more...
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The European Project on Ocean Acidification (EPOCA) was launched on 10 June 2008. This EU research project is a consortium of over 100 scientists from 27 organizations in nine countries to address ocean acidification. Its goal is to document ocean acidification, investigate its impact on biological processes, predict its consequences for the next 100 years, and advise policy-makers on potential thresholds or tipping points that should not be exceeded.
The Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commi more...
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It is a particular pleasure to have this opportunity to share some of my thoughts through the inaugural edition of this bulletin – which I hope will become a vibrant medium of communication and exchange in the period ahead – as we each do our part to keep the promise we made in Bali and to realize success in Poznań and then Copenhagen.
Our achievement in Bali came as the culmination of years of hard work by many who grapple with the multiple dimensions of the complex challenge of climate more...
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