World Water Week At Home (WWWeek@home), a virtual conference that took place from August 24 to 28, was initiated by SIWI after the regular World Water Week 2020 had to be cancelled due to Covid-19. The GIZ Week on Water for Development (WW4D) was part of the World Water Week and put a special emphasis on key water topics in relation to climate change and Covid-19.
A special issue on “drought vulnerability, risk, and impact assessments: bridging the science-policy gap” by GlobeDrought experts will soon be published in the journal “Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences” (NHESS).
As part of SIWI’s WWWeek@home 2020, the Week on Water for Development (WW4D) connects stakeholders and offers a virtual platform for exchange on key water topics. From August 24th to 28th, participants get the chance to connect, exchange and discuss with experts and practitioners from the field during panel discussion, expert talks and in interactive dialogues.
The 2020 meeting of the United Nations High-Level Political Forum on Sustainable Development (HLPF) was held from July 7 to 16. The theme was "Accelerated action and transformative pathways: realizing the decade of action and delivery for sustainable development". The HLPF annual meeting is the core United Nations platform for follow-up and review of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and its 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
The joint project WELLE recently published the practitioner’s guideline “Organizational Water Footprint” which aims at supporting companies in determining their water footprint and minimizing it at hotspots along their supply chains.
On June 28, 2020, the joint project STEER hosted its final consortium meeting. With the project coming to an end in three months, project members used the meeting to present their ongoing work and to discuss activities for a successful project completion.
The Policy Brief “Virtual water and trade: lightening water footprints” by the International Water Resources Association (IWRA) deals with the opportunities and pitfalls of the concepts water footprint and virtual water. The fields of action identified in the Policy Brief are closely linked to the work of various GRoW joint projects.
In a Policy Brief from the International Water Resources Association (IWRA), the authors discuss how international guidelines such as the “OECD Principles on Water Governance” can be successfully put into practice.
The article “Water policy and mining: Mainstreaming international guidelines and certification schemes”, recently published in the journal “Environmental Science & Policy”, presents new research results from the STEER joint project.
Taking place on June 16, 2020, the webinar is dedicated to the diverse tasks of water management and protection, in which the use of drones can contribute to working more efficiently as well as generating high-quality and reproducible data. Dipl.-Geogr. Daniel Höck from DIE GEWÄSSER-EXPERTEN!, partner in the GRoW joint project iWaGSS, will be the webinar’s guest speaker.
