From unpredictable rainfall patterns to extreme floods and droughts, water is widely recognized at the forefront of many climate disasters — the “teeth” of climate change.

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Anthony Slayter, Special Adviser on Water to the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, Australia John has been working at the intersection of water with climate adaptation and resilience since 2007. His work explores how we define, develop, and accelerate the uptake of our emerging set of best practices for climate resilience. Article, 11 January 2023 // Devex Opinion: Water insights for climate resilience from the global south Please register -- and then come to hear the #corporate voices showing how to increase our ambition, scope, and efficacy for net zero! AGWA’s vision is for effective climate change adaptation and mitigation practices to be mainstreamed and enabled within water resources management decision-making processes, policies, and implementation. The mission of AGWA is to provision tools, partnerships, guidance, and technical assistance to improve effective decision making, action, governance, and analytical processes in water resources management, focusing on climate adaptation and mitigation.Current work includes developing a new generation of resilience indicators, leading the development and implementation of a national climate planning tool, working with businesses to incorporate resilience within operations, heading a program to engage macroeconomic planners and central bankers to blend resilience with traditional economic evaluation approaches, and contributing to large-scale technical climate risk assessments. We will hold our 13th Annual Members Meeting on Saturday, 19 August near the conference venue, with an option to participate remotely. You can read more about the Annual Meeting and register here: https://lnkd.in/gstPvBf3 #WWWeek #water4climate #waterresilience

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Article, 15 March 2022 // MINAE 42 representantes de instituciones se capacitan en resilienca del agua y planificación climática But less often considered, is the critical role of water in helping countries mitigate and adapt to climate change. Are you at Cairo Water Week? Join us tomorrow for an exciting workshop session, "Resilient water for a resilient future" to explore innovative adaptation action and to build momentum for water's role on the COP28 agenda. Partner harmonization - Providing a platform for closer collaboration, policy-dialogue and harmonization between partners;We will be sharing Ingrid for the next six months with #UAE, while her policy work in AGWA will be shadowed by the capable and entrepreneurial Josh Weinberg. More about him soon! Simply put, water resilience means the ability of water-related policies, plans and investments to cope with climate-related impacts. There will be a particular focus on the use of open-source data, conducting climate risk assessments, and tools for decision-making under uncertainty. AGWA is thrilled to be hosting this session in collaboration with Deltares, Arup, and International Water Management Institute (IWMI). Generating and sharing knowledge - Facilitating knowledge-sharing and understanding of issues related to AWM;

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Article, 28 April 2022 // Sanitation and Water for All When it comes to climate change, water is a resource not a risk Water needs a clear, shining voice in the global #climatepolicy space. As of today, that voice is Ingrid Timboe, seconded from Alliance for Global Water Adaptation (AGWA) as the Water Advisor for the #COP28 Presidency for #cop28UAE. Join us at #CairoWaterWeek! We’re plumbing the depths of the connections between #water, #climatechange, and #resilience through NDCs, planning, #climatefinance and local #climateaction, with powerful examples excellence from #MENA and #Africa. And with great opening comments from the thought leader Walid Hakiki of #Egypt. For this Research Topic, we seek papers that describe deep resilience as an operational and/or policy framework, how deep resilience projects can be evaluated for financing and success, examples of managing with rather than against change and uncertainty, and how technical decision makers can transition from narrow problem definition to more integrative and coherent solutions. Article, 28 September 2022 // Ministerio de Ambiente de Panamá Panamá cuenta con una nueva herramienta centrada en la protección del recurso hídrico

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AGWA's Policy Director Seconded to COP28 Presidency Team — Alliance for Global Water Adaptation (AGWA) Video, 30 September 2021 // World Resources Institute The Journey Thus Far and the Road Ahead: Reflections and Progress on the 2019 Call to Action on Adaptation and Resilience Drivers such as climate change and many forms of recent social, political, and economic change reveal that overly narrow interventions can ignore interactions with other social-ecological systems, depend on inappropriately precise and fixed data, or promote largely incremental adjustments that may not encompass the true scale of impacts and challenges. Promoting robustness to extreme flooding and extreme droughts may simply be unfeasible, while the deferral for additional clarity and certainty about the future through flexibility may not always match the needs of decision makers for action. Deep resilience has been used to describe a new set of approaches that explicitly link problems as divergent as flood and drought prevention for the same location and sharing critical resources between energy, agriculture, and cities. By focusing on the need for resilient interactions between projects, proposed solutions may become more cohesive and coherent to promote cross-sectoral and systemic resilience. When decision makers assume that deep uncertainty is a defining quality of these problems, proposed solutions can make uncertainty-tolerant use of ecosystems and nature-based solutions (NbS), governance systems, and freshwater resources.