During its workshop on 11th December in Osnabrück, the group continued to investigate the two topics identified at the first meeting: conflicting targets and synergies between different SDGs; and indicators, data and models. The participants also discussed how best to transfer knowledge from the

The UNFCCC 24th Conference of the Parties and 14th Session of the Meeting of the Parties to the Kyoto Protocol was held in Katowice, Poland, from 2nd to 4th December. Besides discussions of emissions trading, climate security, climate change financing and local climate protection, there was also an

Between the 3rd and 14th of December the 24th Climate Change Conference (COP24) will be held in Katowice, Poland.  Delegates from 197 countries will come together to discuss and jointly work on progres in the battle against climate change. GRoW will be represented by Dr Lorenz and Prof Kunstmann

From 29th October to 2nd November the 7th African water week was held in Libreville, Gabon, South Africa. 1000 participants from governments, regional institutions, international partners, the private sector, the scientific community and civil society discussed different approaches to achieve Water

On 22 October, the working group on the cross-cutting topic “Incentive mechanisms in the context of governance” met in Frankfurt to continue its work on key issues identified at its first meeting earlier this year.

At that meeting, which took place in March 2018, the group identified three sub

Die Arbeit der GRoW-Community zu den Querschnittsthemen geht in die zweite Runde. Mit einem lebendigen und erfolgreichen Workshop am 27. September setzte das GRoW-Querschnittsthema Wasserfußabdruck seine Arbeit zu wichtigen Themen fort, die bei der ersten Sitzung im März dieses Jahres identifiziert

Pakistan ist weltweit der viertgrößte Baumwollproduzent und ein wichtiger Textilexporteur u.a. für den deutschen Markt. Diese Produktion geht mit extrem hohem Wasserverbrauch und -verschmutzung einher. Im Projekt InoCottonGRoW arbeiten 14 deutsche Forschungs- und Industriepartner mit 13

Estimating the past, present and future availability of freshwater resources is essential to human life – especially in dry regions. However, the parameters are often prone to high levels of uncertainty due to factors such as insufficient local observations. The SaWaM project is therefore developing

One of the greatest challenges for reservoir management in many regions of the world is a lack of the input and validation data needed for today’s highly complex models. The MuDak-WRM project aims to develop a globally applicable hydrological model for predicting mid- to long-term changes in the