News and announcements
Troubled Waters: Climate Change, Hydropolitics, and Transboundary ResourcesA publication of the Regional Voices: Transnational Challenges project
»Actions for Water Integrity in the Context of Climate Change – Call for SubmissionsImplications of climate change on the water sector are both pervasive and complex. Global and local communities are finally mobilizing, designing mitigation and adaptation mechanisms in an attempt to avoid some of the worst damage and prepare for those consequences which may now be unavoidable. Because enormous infrastructure investment is a certainty, 30–50% of which will be water-related, the potential for corruption is high.
»»Climate change diagnosed as biggest global health threat«“We have been ignoring the biggest global health threat of the 21st century.” This was the message – or maybe confession – spelled out in a report launched by doctors and climatologists in London.
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Perspectives on Water and Climate Change Adaptation – new publication seriesCPWC has coordinated the production of
16 papers on Water and Climate Change Adaptation, produced together with the
World Water Council,
IUCN and
IWA.
»CRiSTAL (Community-based Risk Screening Tool – Adaptation and Livelihoods)CRiSTAL (Community-based Risk Screening Tool – Adaptation and Livelihoods) is a screening tool designed to help project designers and managers integrate risk reduction and climate change adaptation into community-level projects.
»Climate Change Adaptation in the Water Sector – order now
CPWC staff edited a book published by
Earthscan, «Climate Change Adaptation in the Water Sector». It is now possible to order the book and receive an attractive reduction.
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