Wednesday, December 8, 2010

Bringing water to the climate change agenda

Hannah Kett in Ecosystem Marketplace: “This is the first time that water issues will be addressed in a climate change COP,” said José Luis Luege Tamargo,Director General of the National Water Commission (CONAGUA). “No mitigation strategy will be successful if the perspectives on water do not become one of the guiding principles in the climate change agenda.”

During COP16, CONAGUA hosted the first Dialogs on Water and Climate Change in Cancun (D4WCC) with the aim of highlighting the importance of water in climate change discussions. The goal of the dialogs was “to shed new light on the importance water management for climate adaptation.”

“Investing in water resources can endure climate change even more without necessarily having to increase expenses. Good water-related policies, laws and regulations can have a huge impact without a large financial cost,” said one of the DW4CC participants, Julia Bucknell, Head of the Water Anchor at the World Bank.

Back in September, at World Water Week in Stockholm, organizations discussed the intersection of water and climate change. Beyond informing individuals of the threat that climate change posed to water resources, the presenters looked ahead to Cancun, sharing their goals for the conference….

Reservoir at Vianden, shot by Vincent de Groot - http://www.videgro.net, Wikimedia Commons, under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license

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