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Novel Handbook tackles growing water allocation challenges in transboundary basins around the world
… Which users may use how much water of a river, lake, aquifer or other source? For what purposes, where and when? These are the questions which a new Handbook on transboundary … capacity on water allocation in a transboundary context are envisaged in collaboration with regions, basins and States …
… Workshop “International experience related to transboundary water allocation and prospects for the development of … Assessment Centre (IWAC) in cooperation with the Finnish Environment Institute (SYKE) with the support of the …
Ghana Launches its National Implementation Plan for the two Global Water Conventions
… Ghana’s transboundary river basins, namely the Volta River basin (shared with … the country’s land surface and generate around 80% of freshwater flow. These shared water resources provide water for … which involved the relevant stakeholders in the water and environment sectors. The application of the Plan is expected …
UNECE and partners train water management trainers in Kazakhstan
… Kazakh university professors took part in a course on political and technical aspects of integrated water resources management (IWRM) at the German-Kazakh …
Virtual Regional Workshop on Equitable and Sustainable Water Allocation
… together national technical level experts and heads of water departments focused on transboundary water management of … water allocation in the context of a changing climate Environmental flow requirements Sustainable groundwater …
Ninth meeting of the Task Force on Water and Climate
… The Task Force on Water and Climate under the Water Convention is responsible … related to adaptation to climate change in transboundary basins, including flood and drought management, in …
Reviewing progress on transboundary water cooperation in the world
… of the world’s population lives in one of the 275 transboundary river basins. Transboundary waters account for 60 percent of the world’s freshwater … is therefore crucial for economic development, peace and environmental protection as well as for the achievement of …
Reviewing progress on transboundary water cooperation in the world
… of the world’s population lives in one of the 275 transboundary river basins. Transboundary waters account for 60 percent of the world’s freshwater … is therefore crucial for economic development, peace and environmental protection as well as for the achievement of …
Malta: 35th Party to the UNECE Protocol on Pollutant Release and Transfer Registers
… Release and Transfer Registers, becoming the thirty-fifth Party to join this Protocol to the Convention on Access to … Participation in Decision-making and Access to Justice in Environmental Matters (Aarhus Convention). UNECE welcomes … potentially hazardous chemical substances released to air, water and soil and transferred off-site for treatment or …
First Meeting of the Task Force on Water and Climate
… Change of the Common Implementation Strategy for the EU Water Framework Directive which took place on 20-21 November … 2008, in Amsterdam. Documents for this meeting, List of participant s and Presentations delivered by delegates can … activities, Ms. Almut Nagel, Federal Ministry for the Environment, Conservation and Nuclear Safety, Germany PPT - …
International Workshop on Adaptation to Climate Change in Water Sector
… The workshop on adaptation to climate change in water sector was organised under the auspices of the Water … Force on Water and Climate . The workshop aimed to (a) share experiences and thus assist governments in developing … policy until 2009 Ms. Meike Gierk, Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety, Germany …
Third meeting of the UNECE Expert Group on Fire-water Retention
… with the 17th meeting of the joint Ad Hoc Expert Group on Water and Industrial Accidents . Both meetings will be held back-to-back with a transboundary response exercise between Germany and Poland on the Oder …
Ninth session of the Meeting of the Parties to the Water Convention
… HIGHLIGHTS The 9th session of the Meeting of the Parties to the Water Convention was organized by UNECE in cooperation with …
Namibia becomes first Southern African country to join UN Water Convention
… to the Convention on the Protection and Use of Transboundary Watercourses and International Lakes ( UN Water Convention …
Sub-national stakeholder workshops for Zambia’s Accession to the Water Convention
… The transboundary Zambezi and Congo River Basins each cover approximately … respectively, on the Protection and Use of Transboundary Watercourses and International Lakes (Water Convention), the … by the Ministry of Water Development, Sanitation and Environmental Protection as part of Zambia's accession …
Completion of the first Espoo Convention procedure in Belarus
… Geneva The full procedure of Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) in a transboundary context according to the Espoo Convention has been …
Eleventh meeting of the Task Force on Water and Climate
… Virtual The Task Force on Water and Climate under the Water Convention is responsible … related to adaptation to climate change in transboundary basins, including flood and drought management, in …
The need for strengthened cooperation on water highlighted at Berlin Conference
… to Central Asia, the likelihood of more frequent compound water-energy-food crises and the growing strain on the shared water resources of the region due to economic … regional cooperation on water resources management and environment protection in the Aral Sea Basin. Among others, …
Tenth session of the Meeting of the Parties to the Water Convention
… The 10 th session of the Meeting of the Parties to the Water Convention (MOP10) took place in Ljubljana from 23 to …
Facilitating funding and financing of transboundary water cooperation and basin development
… A key aspect for ensuring sustainable transboundary basin development and cooperation is funding. Funding … countries also face difficulties in financing transboundary water cooperation from national sources since often the … Switzerland, the Netherlands, the World Bank , the Global Environment Facility: International Waters: Learning …