The Alliance for Water Stewardship (AWS) and Alliance for Global Water Adaptation (AGWA) are hosting an in-person live event on this important topic: John started and led WWF’s freshwater climate adaptation program in 2007 before co-founding the Alliance for Global Water Adaptation (AGWA) in 2010, where he remains the Executive Director. He has led the development of a variety of climate risk reduction methodologies that have been used in dozens of countries, prepared green bond criteria that have certified more than 15 billion USD in water resilience investments across six continents, and advised well over 100 countries on their national climate commitments. There will be a particular focus on the use of open-source data, conducting climate risk assessments, and tools for decision-making under uncertainty. AGWA is thrilled to be hosting this session in collaboration with Deltares, Arup, and International Water Management Institute (IWMI).

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AgWA uses the definition provided by the CAADP, that understands Agricultural Water Management (AWM) as the continuum from rainfall management through to irrigation for food production [ ...] Water is needed in efforts to reduce carbon emissions, such as generating renewable energy and sequestering carbon. Tangled up in Blue: Integrating water stewardship into private sector climate strategies — Alliance for Global Water Adaptation (AGWA) This webinar is the first in our new series ‘Futureproofing: Water and Climate Adaptation’. The series is focussed on adaptation strategy, practices, and financing for coastal areas, including islands and deltas.Join us Tuesday 17 October at 12:00 CET for a webinar, on coastal resilience building. The webinar will showcase coastal adaptation projects to frame how future-oriented planning and risk reduction can support communities and economic resilience. Partner harmonization - Providing a platform for closer collaboration, policy-dialogue and harmonization between partners; The Comprehensive Africa Agricultural Development Programme (CAADP) has four pillars or focus areas for agricultural improvement and investment [ ...] Neera Shrestha Pradhan, Senior Water and Adaptation Specialist/Programme Coordinator, Koshi Basin Initiative, ICIMOD Upcoming Webinar Series: Economic Resilience Through Water Resilience — Alliance for Global Water Adaptation (AGWA)

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Countries around the world are developing climate plans — such as Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) and National Adaptation Plans (NAPs) — to meet commitments of the Paris Agreement. But, these plans typically neglect the strategic role of water in climate solutions. Join us at #CairoWaterWeek! We’re plumbing the depths of the connections between #water, #climatechange, and #resilience through NDCs, planning, #climatefinance and local #climateaction, with powerful examples excellence from #MENA and #Africa. And with great opening comments from the thought leader Walid Hakiki of #Egypt. Margot Conover Harriet Talbot Cate Lamb Suzannah Franks Seth Schultz Adam Freed J. Carl Ganter Cristina Rumbaitis del Rio Andrew Roby BEM Josh Weinberg Circle of Blue Ian James Lauren Herzer Risi Eliza Roberts Walker Young Dr Mark Fletcher FREng Stuart Orr US Water Alliance US Water Alliance Nicole Silk Dieter Rothenberger Giz David T. Margot Clarvis, PhD #winz #mitigation #climatesolutions #watermanagement #climatepolicy #climatechange #climatechangesolutions It is also useful for line ministries, civil society, investment banks, aid agencies and other groups with a stake in evaluating the credibility and efficacy of national climate plans. Who is involved? Deep uncertainty describes a novel crisis in decision making: the analytical inability to distinguish between the likelihood of quite divergent future pathways, some of which may have disruptive and consequential economic, social and ecological impacts. Traditional responses by engineers, economics, planners, and resource managers to climate uncertainty have included robustness and flexibility. Both approaches assume that we can define a problem and its solution set in discrete and well-bounded terms.

Water needs a clear, shining voice in the global #climatepolicy space. As of today, that voice is Ingrid Timboe, seconded from Alliance for Global Water Adaptation (AGWA) as the Water Advisor for the #COP28 Presidency for #cop28UAE. Article, 28 September 2022 // Ministerio de Ambiente de Panamá Panamá cuenta con una nueva herramienta centrada en la protección del recurso hídrico John has been working at the intersection of water with climate adaptation and resilience since 2007. His work explores how we define, develop, and accelerate the uptake of our emerging set of best practices for climate resilience.

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Advocacy -Disseminating information on AWM and setting the topic on top of the national /international agenda; Water is the lifeblood of society, the economy and the natural environment. But climate change means that the availability of water for drinking, ecosystems, agriculture, industry and energy can no longer be assumed. With increasing competition for limited water resources, there will be difficult tradeoffs to make. Drivers such as climate change and many forms of recent social, political, and economic change reveal that overly narrow interventions can ignore interactions with other social-ecological systems, depend on inappropriately precise and fixed data, or promote largely incremental adjustments that may not encompass the true scale of impacts and challenges. Promoting robustness to extreme flooding and extreme droughts may simply be unfeasible, while the deferral for additional clarity and certainty about the future through flexibility may not always match the needs of decision makers for action. Deep resilience has been used to describe a new set of approaches that explicitly link problems as divergent as flood and drought prevention for the same location and sharing critical resources between energy, agriculture, and cities. By focusing on the need for resilient interactions between projects, proposed solutions may become more cohesive and coherent to promote cross-sectoral and systemic resilience. When decision makers assume that deep uncertainty is a defining quality of these problems, proposed solutions can make uncertainty-tolerant use of ecosystems and nature-based solutions (NbS), governance systems, and freshwater resources.

I am so proud to work with Ingrid. She is a colleague who became a friend, who became a colleague as well again. I will always carry her water.