Summary of evaluation from the GWP Consulting Partners meeting 15-17 August 2008 in Stockholm.
Stockholm, Sunday August 12, 2007: 09.00 Folkets Hus, Room 307
Contact: Mike Muller, c/o GWP Secretariat: Tel: 070-5945263
A Policy Brief, Climate Change Adaptation and Integrated Water Resources Management, released today by the Global Water Partnership (GWP) suggests that the best approach to manage the impact of climate change on water is one guided by the philosophy and methodology of Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM). And it suggests that water will have to be placed at the centre of adaptation efforts.
After four years at the GWP secretariat in Stockholm, Alan Hall is leaving his position as Coordinator of Global Initiatives, but will continue as a Senior Advisor working from the U.K.
These contain a very useful map that enables in one page to show the spread of GWP and it's partners for a region.
The Workshop on Groundwater Management for Coping with Climate Change cosponsored by China Institute of Water Resource and Hydropower Research and the Groundwater Monitoring Centre of Ministry of Water Resources, was held on March 22~23, 2011 in Beijing.
Athens, Greece, 22-23 October 2007
Following up the commitment of all the Euro-Mediterranean Partners to "endorse a feasible timetable to de-pollute the Mediterranean Sea by 2020", the European Commission launched the 'Horizon 2020' initiative (Cairo, November 2006) that aims to tackle the top pollution sources of the Mediterranean by the year 2020.