Over 1000 scientists, practitioners, business leaders and policymakers from around the world are meeting in Cape Town, South Africa on 18-21 June to discuss climate change adaptation.
The programmatic support to SADC ensures that stakeholders are engaged in regional processes and influenced to implement good practices in transboundary water resources management.
Organized by the Ministry of Environment of the Slovak Republic, the Slovak Environment Agency and the Water Research Institute, the Conference "Water Resource Protection 2019" will take place on 17-18 June 2019 in Bratislava, Slovakia.
The Slovak Drought Action Plan that includes preventive measures in a number of areas, specifically agriculture and forestry, urban landscape, water management, research and environmental education, is expected to be approved in Spring 2018.
No dia 14 de dezembro foi defendida com sucesso a Tese de Doutorado intitulada "Gestão Integrada de Recursos Hídricos: Desenvolvendo Capacidades para a Construção de Visão Sistêmica sobre Gestão das Águas", de Gabriela Zamignan, junto ao Programa de Pós-Graduação em Desenvolvimento Sustentável da Universidade de Brasília, orientada pelo Prof. Dr. Carlos Hiroo Saito.
VIENNA, 10 October - A secondary school in Bosnia and Herzegovina has won the ‘International Danube Art Master 2017’ competition, announced Susanne Brandstetter, Chairperson of the Public Participation Expert Group of the International Commission for the Protection of the Danube River (ICPDR). Ms. Brandstetter made the announcement yesterday at the House of the European Union in Vienna.
The World Water Week, held every year in Stockholm, is considered the major global annual event dedicated to water issues. More than 1200 speakers and presenters together with hundreds of participants more, will take part in its almost 300 sessions. The theme of this year’s Week (26-31 August) is “Water, Ecosystems and Human Development”. As in previous years, GWP-Med serves as the overall coordinator for the “MENA Focus” sessions dedicated to water-related issues in the Middle East & North Africa Region.
In 2018, the International Coordinating Council of the UNESCO Man and the Biosphere Programme approved the registration of the Lower Prut Biosphere Reserve, which has now officially become the first biosphere reserve in Moldova.
Under the Integrating Agriculture in National Adaptation Plans programme (“NAP-Ag”), the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) are working together with ministries of Agriculture, Environment, Planning and Finance, and key national stakeholders in selected countries to incorporate agricultural sectors into National Adaptation Plans (NAPs) processes.
