Euwi - European Water Initiative

UN launches decade-long drive to combat desertification

16 August 2010 – The United Nations today unveiled a decade-long push to raise awareness and mobilize action to fight desertification, which threatens the livelihoods of more than 1 billion people in 100 countries.

International Water Conventions

Ratifications for the entry into force of the 1997 United Nations Convention on the Law of the Non-Navigational Uses of International Watercourses (UN Watercourses Convention); and Ratifications for the entry into force of the 2003 Amendment to the 1992 Convention on the Protection and Use of Transboundary Watercourses and International Lakes

Guidance on Water and Adaptation to Climate Change

Water resources are vulnerable and already affected by climate change and variability with wide-ranging consequences for societies, their health, economies and the natural environment. Many countries in the UNECE region have already experienced severe impacts from extreme events and disasters. It is likely that anthropogenic climate change (change caused by human activities) will exacerbate the severity and frequency of those events, as well as affecting the region’s water resources in other ways, e.g. through changing precipitation patterns. The need is to adapt now.

UN-Water Key Messages on Climate Change and Water

UN-Water presented its key messages on water and climate change as a contribution to COP 15 in the following document:

UN-Water Key Messages on Climate Change and Water [PDF  314 KB]

The Implications of Climate Change for Water – Highlights on Climate Change from the WWDR3

By WWAP (November 2009, 8 pages)

Briefing Note: The Implications of Climate Change for Water - Highlights on Climate Change from the WWDR3 [PDF 612 KB]

By WWAP (November 2009, 28 pages)

Special Report: Water and Climate Change - An Overview from the WWDR [PDF 2.73 MB]

http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0018/001863/186318e.pdf