Technical workshop on water, climate change impacts and adaptation strategies

18 - 20 Jun. 2012

09:00h - 17:00h

Mexico City, Mexico

Mexico

Mexico City

English

Technical workshop on water, climate change impacts and adaptation strategies

18 - 20 Jun. 2012

09:00h - 17:00h

Mexico City, Mexico

Mexico

Mexico City

English

Background
The COP at its seventeenth session (Decision 6/CP.17) requested the secretariat to organize a technical workshop on water, climate change impacts and adaptation strategies, in collaboration with Nairobi work programme partner organizations and other relevant organizations.

The workshop was informed by the information contained in Annex I to the report of the SBSTA on its thirty-fourth session (FCCC/SBSTA/2011/2) and subsequent views of Parties, and included indigenous and traditional knowledge and practices for adaptation and gender-sensitive tools and approaches as cross-cutting issues.

The workshop took into account the technical paper on water and climate change impacts and adaptation strategies (FCCC/TP/2011/5).

The focus of the workshop was to:

assist all Parties, in particular developing countries, including the least developed countries and small island developing Sates to improve and developed shared understanding of:
- climate change impacts and vulnerability of water resources, related sectors and ecosystems;
- adaptation planning and practices that reduce vulnerability of water resources, related sectors and ecosystems;
- data, observation and research needs and opportunities, including on communication and stakeholder enagement, and knowledge sharing and management at all levels
provide a potential direction for future work on water and climate change in the context of the Nairobi work programme.

Information for participants

Logistical information (146 kB)
Workshop agenda (174 kB)
Report of the workshop

Presentations
Session 1 - Framing the session

Presenter and Party/organization	Presentation
Mr. Richard Muyungi Chair of the SBSTA	Objective and scope of the workshop (45 kB)
Ms. Ursula Oswald Spring IPCC	Overview of climate change impacts on water resources, livelihoods, related sectors and ecosystems (3688 kB)
Mr. Siegfried Demuth UNESCO-IHP	Assessment of the impact of climate change on water resources and how to adapt (5789 kB)
Mr. Mario López Pérez United Mexican States	Mexico's national adaptation planning and practices on water resources(2940 kB

Session 2 - Observational data and its interpretation for understanding climate change impacts on water resources

Presenter and Party/organization	Presentation
Ms. Sophia Sandström WMO	Climate observations and services: GCOS and GFCS (1840 kB)
Mr. Alfonso Liao Lee Costa Rica	Rainfall data and systematic observation for understanding climatic change on water resources (8567 kB)
Ms. Amanda McCarty United States of America	U.S. observations and monitoring in support of adaptive water management (1545 kB)
Mr. Mohamed H. Elrawady CEDARE	Role of observational data in assessing climate change induced water stress in Egypt and the Nile Basin (3798 kB)

Session 3 - Assessment of climate change impacts on water resources and on related sectors and ecosystems

Presenter and Party/organization	Presentation
Mr. Sergio Salinas-Rodriguez , Mr. Bart Wickel WWF	Tools and methods for assessing and reducing water resource vulnerability to climate change (7528 kB)
Mr. Cees van de Guchte The Netherlands	Comparative assessment of the vulnerability and resilience of ten deltas (1630 kB)
Mr. Jean Fanfan Jourdain Haiti	Vulnerability of water resources from a least developed country perspective: the case of Haiti (1503 kB)
Mr. Rajan Kotru, ICIMOD	Assessment of climate change impacts on water resources and mountain ecosystems (1570 kB)

Session 4 - Adaptation planning and practices related to water resources at different levels

Presenter and Party/organization	Presentation
Ms. Marta Perez de Madrid IUCN	Building adaptation solutions from integrated water resources management and ecosystem-based approaches (2444 kB)
Ms. Kathleen Dominique OECD	Adapting water policy for climate change adaptation (248 kB)
Mr. Cees van de Guchte The Netherlands	Adaptation planning in the transboundary river delta of the Rhine and lessons learned from the UNECE Water Convention's pilot projects on adaptation in transboundary basins (2009 kB)
Mr. Moussa Ouedraogo Burkina Faso	National level perspectives from Burkina Faso (935 kB)
Mr. Aliou Diouf ENDA	Indigenous water resources management under a changing climate: experiences from West African communities (2464 kB)
Mr. Golam Rabbani BCAS	A community based adaptation initiative in five climate vulnerable eco-zones in Bangladesh (1015 kB)
Breakout groups	Report to plenary-Transboundary/regional (50 kB) Report to plenary-National (133 kB) Report to plenary-Sub-national/local (97 kB)

Session 5 - Communication, stakeholder engagement, knowledge sharing and management

Presenter and Party/organization	Presentation
Mr. Klaus Radunsky Austria	Perspective from the EU and its Member States (174 kB)
Mr. Alex Simalabwi GWP	Framework for water security and climate resilient development(2919 kB)
Ms. Sophia Sandstorm WMO	UN-Water and its thematic priority area on water and climate change (709 kB)
Mr. Seleshi Bekele UNECA-ACPC	ACPC perspectives as a regional centre in the African region (3288 kB)

Contextualizing discussion points of Days 1 and 2
Ms. Katarina Veem, SIWI, Session 1 (52 kB), Mr. Siegfried Demuth, UNESCO-IHP, Session 2(85 kB), Mr. Alex Simalabwi, GWP, Session 3 (294 kB), Mr. Bart Wickel, WWF, Session 4 (129 kB)