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Third meeting of the Task Force on Water and Climate

Third meeting of the Task Force on Water and Climate

12 May 2010
Geneva Switzerland

The third meeting of the Task Force on Water and Climate took place on Wednesday, 12 May 2010, in the Palais des Nations, Geneva from 9.30 a.m. until 4.00 p.m., back-to-back with the Workshop on adaptation to climate change in transboundary basins, which was held on 10-11 May 2010 in Geneva.

The meeting discussed the programme of pilot projects and the platform for exchanging experience with adaptation in a transboundary basins. It also provided an opportunity to review implementation of the Guidance on Water and Adaptation to Climate Change and to discuss a possible contribution to the seventh Ministerial Conference of the "Environment for Europe" process, to be held in autumn 2011 in Astana, Kazakhstan, which will have water and water-related ecosystem as one of two themes.

 

Documents

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Provisional agenda for the meeting

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List of participants

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Report

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Overview of the programme of pilot projects on adaptation to climate change in transboundary basins

TFWC/2010/3

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Concept note on the platform for exchanging experience with adaptation on water and adaptation to climate change in transboundary basins

TFWC/2010/4

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Report of the Extended Bureau meeting of the UNECE Committee on Environmental Policy, Geneva, 16-17 March 2010

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Background Documents

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UNECE Guidance on Water and Adaptation to Climate Change

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Draft Guidance on Water Supply and Sanitation in Extreme Weather Events, prepared by the Task Force on Extreme Weather Events under the Protocol on Water and Health

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Presentations

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Dauria transboundary rivers- adaptation to climate change
Mr. Eugene Simonov, Dauria Biosphere Reserve, WWF Russia

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Pilot project proposal on water and adaptation to climate change in the Drina and Vardar/ Axios river basins
Ms. Jovanka Ignjatovic, Regional Environmental Centre for Central and Eastern Europe

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Platform to exchange experience on water and adaptation to climate change
Ms. Francesca Bernardini, United Nations Economic Commission for Europe, Water Convention Secretariat

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The issue of water supply and sanitation in adaptation strategy in water cycle change.
Ms. Francesca Bernardini, United Nations Economic Commission for Europe, Water Convention Secretariat on behalf of Ms. Luciana Sinisi, Italy, Chair of the Task Force on Extreme Weather Events under the Protocol on Water and Health

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