The third meeting of the core group of the pilot projects on adaptation to climate change in transboundary basins under the UNECE Water Convention and the first meeting of the global network of pilot projects took place in the Palais des…
Background Under the UNECE Convention on the Protection and Use of Transboundary Watercourse and International Lakes3 (Water Convention) and its Task Force on Water and Climate a programme of pilot projects in 8 transboundary basins in the pan-…
This side event will be an opportunity to discuss lessons learnt by the international river, lake and aquifer commissions in developing cooperation of riparian countries on the management of transboundary surface and ground waters.
In particular…
The 2012 scientific programme of the 5th Ouranos symposium is an opportunity to review the progress made in recent research efforts within Ouranos and its network. The symposium will feature a number of top-ranked speakers, and will also provide a…
On behalf of UNECE and UNESCO, coordinators of the UN-Water Thematic Priority Area (TPA) on Transboundary Waters, I am pleased to send you below and attached a call for contributions of Good practices in Transboundary Water Cooperation. You are…
10th EUROPEAN CONFERENCE« EUROPE INBO 2012 »
ON THE IMPLEMENTATION OF THE WATER FRAMEWORK DIRECTIVE
European Group of Basin Organizations EUROPE-INBO
Istanbul – Turkey – 17 to 19 October 2012
at the Istanbul…
The objective of the Conference is to secure renewed political commitment for sustainable development, assess the progress to date and the remaining gaps in the implementation of the outcomes of the major summits on sustainable development, and…
Geneva, 17 March 2012 – The United Nations Economic Commission for Europe Convention on the Protection and Use of Transboundary Watercourses and International Lakes (UNECE Water Convention), adopted in Helsinki, Finland on 17 March 1992, celebrates…
In July 2010, the United Nations recognized the right to universal access to water. Currently, nearly 900 million people worldwide lack access to improved water sources, over 300 million of whom live in sub-Saharan Africa.
As it did…
The UNESCO International Hydrological Programme (IHP) together with the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and the International Association of Hydrogeologists (IAH) has initiated a new Project on "Groundwater Governance" financed by the…
Brief summary of the Symposium
The objective of the 6th International Symposium of the European Water Resources Association, co-organized with the Department of Civil and Enviromental Engineering of Catania University and with the Italian…
The International Conference on “Transboundary Aquifers: Challenges and New Directions” took place from 6 to 8 December 2010 at UNESCO Headquarters in Paris.
The International Conference on "Transboundary Aquifers: Challenges and New Directions" took place from 6 to 8 December 2010 at UNESCO Headquarters in Paris.
Objective
Most of the first WFD River Basin Management Plans (RBMP) have now been submitted to the EC in Brussels, and are at an early stage of implementation, but it is clear that we need different approaches for the 2nd round of RBMP, to be…
Project overview International Office for Water (Oieau, as Secretariat of the International Network of Basin Organisations), the African Network of Basin Organisations (ANBO), Ecologic and various African transboundary basins have developed,…