The UNFCCC climate talks - the 24th Conference of the Parties and 14th Session of the Meeting of the Parties to the Kyoto Protocol - more commonly known as COP24, is held in Katowice, Poland, on 2-14 December. GWP is present and involved in a number of events.
The 2nd Cairo Water Week (CWW) will be organised on October 20-24 in Cairo, Egypt. The event will address the theme “Responding to Water Scarcity” through five sub-themes overarching a broad spectrum of the water scarcity.
World Toilet Day, celebrated on 19 November, is about taking action to ensure that everyone has a safe toilet by 2030. This is part of Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 6: sanitation and water. The 2018 theme of the day is "When Nature Calls". On the occasion of the day, GWP will do a Facebook Live interview with Kanika Thakar, Founder of #ToiletTalk.
To boost ambition and accelerate actions to implement the Paris Agreement on Climate Change, UN Secretary-General António Guterres hosts the 2019 Climate Action Summit in New York on 23 September. GWP will be represented at the event.
Its implementation will be based on a participatory and multi-stakeholder approach. In accordance with the institutional framework of IWRM in Niger, the Project intends to contribute in the long term to the establishment and animation of the Water Agency (WA) branches in the Niger portion of the Mekrou sub-basin, which are in particular:
On November 10th, 2018 at COP24 – The United Nations Climate Change Conference, the Global Water Partnership (GWP) launched a report entitled “Preparing to Adapt: The Untold Story of Water in Climate Change Adaptation.”