The view from Davos - Part three: Perspectives on the environmental debate
In the third of four blogs, I consider perspectives in three key areas- biofuels, climate change adaptation and water...
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Why the International Year of Sanitation is no matter for prudery
The International Year of Sanitation is an opportunity to draw attention to S&H goals. From ‘World Toilet Day’ on November 19th, the launch of the IYS on November 21st and the year of activity that follows, development practitioners around the world can expect to witness a renewed and more determined effort to make the case that providing better sanitation & hygiene facilities for poor households is a development priority – especially for the benefit of all the people who are currently without basic means to carry out a basic daily function. ..
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Time to get things done in the water sector? A little less conversation…
Though talk of the urgency of achieving Millennium Development Goals targets on water supply and sanitation is not new, there was a definite sense of drive to get things done at the World Water Week in Stockholm (12-18 August 2007)...
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Beyond the UNDP Human Development Report 2006
The 2006 UNDP Human Development Report (HDR), entitled ‘Beyond Scarcity: Power, Poverty and Global Water Crisis’ is now available. While many of the individual issues and arguments presented will already be familiar to water sector experts, the report cleverly draws together the wealth of existing knowledge, lays bare the challenges faced and sets them within a much wider context. ..
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Impressions from the Stockholm World Water Week 2006
The World Water Week in Stockholm is a yearly event that brings together around 1,500 international scientists, policy makers, practitioners and donor organisations to discuss issues concerning the water sector. Katharina Welle and Halla Qaddumi..
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WPP@WWF4 blog Day 5 and 6
Day 5: The last two days of a five-day forum drag on and on. Piles of publications remain piles, people start to thin out - though ministerial sessions pick generate some energy (though not much) - and the first signs emerge of exhibitors migrating elsewhere...
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WPP@WWF4 blog Day 4
Day 4: The forum continued to grow in numbers. At times switching between sessions became an exercise in mass-marching accompanied by African drumming. Sometimes the flow would drag you into directions you would prefer not to go - sessions on complex..
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WPP@WWF4 blog Day 3
Day 3: After a five-day wait the ODI publications arrived in Mexico City. They were snapped up in minutes by hungry participants flooding our impromptu stand…
The theme of the day was Integrated Water Resource Management (IWRM). Sessions attended emphasised..
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WPP@WWF4 blog Day 2
Day 2 of the forum focused on water for growth and development. WPP covered twelve sessions throughout the day. This was an important day giving the water sector a chance to showcase new thinking on availability, access and use and growth issues.
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WPP@WWF4 blog Day 1
The 4th World Water Forum opened yesterday in Mexico City with a central theme of 'local actions for a global challenge'. The Water Policy Programme (WPP) team of Alan Nicol, Marialivia Iotti, Josie Tucker and Maeve Hall attended the..
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