A stable water cycle as a collective responsibility
14:00 - 15:30 CET | Stockholm Waterfront Congress Centre, Room: C4, Level 2
This session is designed to make the case that: a stable water cycle is a condition to deliver on our SDGs, climate and biodiversity agendas. It requires collective and transformative action at multiple scales, from local to global justice is central in the realisation of this ambition. New evidence will be shared on the fact that: We are changing the source of freshwater Changes in the water cycle are having material economic impacts Water is a major, but underappreciated, source of interdependence between countries. Interdependencies are complex but create opportunities. Several stakeholders will sketch collective action pathways that can contribute to transformational changes in finance, technology, trade, institutional capacities, partnerships and what we value. Illustrations will cover such domains as rainfed agriculture, land use change and nature-based solutions.
Organisers: Government of the Netherlands and the OECD
OECD participation: Elin Adolfsson, Global Commission on the Economics of Water
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