Building momentum towards COP-15

All week long, sessions will look at the interactions between climate, energy and water. Activities will aim to develop stronger global mechanisms leading up to and beyond COP-15.

Events within the Climate and Energy theme include:

• For Wise-use of Land and Water Resources: Balancing Competing Claims for Water, Food, Energy and Ecosystems
• SIWI Seminar: Is Rainfall Variability More Significant than Climate Change? Livelihood Risks and Planning Challenges
• Opening Plenary Session
• Energy Audits and Climate Vulnerability Assessments of Water Utilities in Africa
• Water Recharge, Retention and Re-use; 3R Solutions for Water and Food Security in Water Scarce Areas
• Water and Energy Linkages in the Middle East
• Workshop 3: Access to Green and Blue Water in a Water Scarcity Situation
• Eye on Asia: Facing Up to Climate Change Impacts and Costs
• Focus Water and Climate: Opening Session - Update on Climate Change Impacts and Climate Information for Water Management
• Water and Climate Focus
• Focus Water and Climate: Climate Change Vulnerability in Water Management: Setting the Stage for Action
• Focus Water and Climate: Separate Streams? Integrating Climate Change Adaptation with Water Management
• Focus Water and Climate: IWRM as a Practical Approach to Climate Change Adaptation
• Focus Water and Climate: Bridging the Water and Climate Change Agendas: Raising the Profile of Water in the UNFCCC Negotiations
• Focus Latin America: Integrated Land and Water Resources Management in Brazil
• Focus Water and Climate: Financing Mechanisms to Make Funding Available for Adaptation Measures
• Focus Water and Climate: From Theory to Reality: Sustainable Water Management in an Uncertain Climate
• Focus Water and Climate: Why Tackling Water, Energy and Climate Change Together Makes Business Sense
• Focus Water and Climate: Presenting the African-European Parliamentary Dialogue on Climate Change
• Focus Water and Climate: Building Political Momentum Towards COP-15: A Call to Action on Adaptation
• Can Progress on Drinking Water and Sanitation Withstand Climate Change?