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Forest Resilience Bonds enable private investments to mitigate wildfires and drought
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Prolonged droughts in the western USA have led to the need to bring in private investments to mitigate wildfires, floods and erosion. Forest Resilience Bonds are a public-partnership model to bring new resources for management and are gaining ground rapidly.
The fallacy of the water "sector" in water resources management
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Water is central to the achievement of all the SDGs and should be viewed as crosscutting, not a sector. The water community should venture beyond its comfort zone and work with other water-related sectors. The SDG6 IWRM Support Program helps countries to use water as a connector between their SDG targets.
In this webinar, on the 23rd of June, speakers presented coastal adaptation strategies where Nature based Solutions have been used. They explored the challenges and opportunities for upscaling these solutions and discussed the policy framework and financial support to upscale NbS.
Webinar: Putting water at the center of adaptation
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Speakers at the webinar discussed how to put water at the center of adaptation, links with the SDGs, and the WHO's recommendations on how climate change and COVID are linked. They covered community engagement, equity and justice, and principles of water as leverage.
Guiding principles for using water to leverage climate resilience
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This living document and discussion brief proposes a set of guiding principles critical for using water to leverage climate resilience. They aim to guide effective country-driven water adaptation to reduce vulnerability and build water resilience. We welcome your comments!
International organizations working on water made a statement of the importance of water to adaptation as inputs to the process of the Glasgow-Sharm el-Sheikh Work Program (COP26-COP27) on the Global Goal on Adaptation, which aims to enhance adaptive capacity and resilience, and reduce vulnerability.