Download XXX - Global Water Partnership

GWP at COP17: Interconnecting water,
climate and development
Dr Ania Grobicki
Executive Secretary, GWP
3 December 2011
Water Scarcity in the World (2025 scenario)
“economic” water scarcity: water
development can meet increased demand
absolute or physical
water scarcity
Implications of climate change :
More climatic extremes
Run off variation (1960-90 /2070-90)
Interconnecting climate with water security and building resilience
Better climate information
Food Security
Disaster Risk
Reduction
Water
Security
Think interconnected ….
Think integrated ….. Water, climate and development are all part of
the same human story
2011 : WACDEP launched (8 countries, 4 transboundary
river basins (+1 TB aquifer) in Africa starting up)
"In the face of climate change, partnerships such as
those launched in the Water, Climate and
Development Programme with Global Water
Partnership represent a good first step."
Hon. Edna Molewa, Minister of Water and Environmental
Affairs, South Africa, and President of AMCOW, at the 3rd
Africa Water Week
A growing international
network since 1996
• 13 Regional Water Partnerships (RWPs)
• 80 Country Water Partnerships (CWPs)
• 2,556 institutional Partners in 161 countries
• Grown more than 5-fold since 2004
GWP: Network, Partnership
and InterGovernmental Organization
“A partnership is not the sum of its parts,
it is the product of the parts' interaction.”
Key messages for COP17 :
 Invest in information on WATER RESOURCES
 Invest in development based upon better knowledge of
climate change and water resources
 Invest in building water security
For food
For drinking water supply
For manufacturing industry
For energy (hydropower)
For the environment
For the next generation – the youth!
The evidence is before our eyes ….
Breidarmerkur – jökull in 2002, 5 km from the sea
5 km
In 1933 the glacier reached all the way to the sea…..
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Documenting another of Iceland´s glaciers
Solheima – jökull in 1997
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Melting of a glacier
Solheima – jökull in 2000
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Melting of a glacier
Solheima – jökull in 2003
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2006 : Death of a glacier
Solheima – jökull in 2006
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The glacier has vanished from the landscape…..
Iceland is ceasing to be ”iceland”
Solheima – jökull in 2009
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