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 31 oct 2017 20:04 

Water and Climate: Nature-Based Solutions to better adapt to the effects of climate change


Climate change is already affecting and will increasingly affect natural resources, especially water resources and aquatic ecosystems. In many regions, the intensity and frequency of extreme meteorological events, such as hurricanes, floods and droughts, are increasing, sea levels are rising, threatening territories, economic and social development, and the environment.

In such a context, in addition to or as alternatives to artificial infrastructure, Nature-Based Solutions, for example the restoration of wetlands, the revegetation of cities or the development of mangroves in coastal areas, are effective tools to combat climate change. They thus enable to increase the resilience of lands to climate risks, to protect and restore biodiversity and to meet other development challenges, such as access to drinking water, food security and health, etc.

COP23: Incorporating Nature-Based Solutions into the implementation of the Paris Agreement

An international declaration recalling the significance of these solutions for adapting freshwater to the effects of climate change has just been opened to signature by all interested partners.
A high-level official ceremony will be organized on the occasion of the COP23’s Water and Climate Action Day in Bonn on Friday 10 November 2017.

These solutions are indeed one of the options for meeting the greenhouse-effect gas reduction and climate change adaptation targets set by the Paris Agreement.

In addition, the declaration is part of the Marrakech Global Climate Action Partnership, which aims to mobilize all stakeholders, the civil society in particular, to accelerate the implementation of the Paris Climate Agreement.

This declaration thus encourages stakeholders at all levels to ambitiously include Nature-Based Solutions in their policies and strategies to combat climate change, in land-use planning and water resources management.
Initiated at the international workshop on "Ecological Engineering and Climate Risks"(*) in Paris (20-22 September 2017), this declaration was officially launched at the International "Water and Climate Summit of the Great Rivers of the World" in Rome on 25 October.

Signing of the Declaration by Gian Luca Galletti, Italian Minister of environment, Jean Launay, President of the FrenchWater Partnership and Jean-François Donzier, Secretary Général of Global alliances for Water and Climate , on the  25th of october 2017 during the Roma Water and Climate summit

It was signed on this occasion by the Italian Minister for the Environment, Lands and the Sea, by the Secretary General of the Global Alliances for Water and Climate and by the President of the French Water Partnership (Photo).

(*) Workshop organized by the Seine Normandy Water Agency and the French Development Agency in association with the French Water Partnership, the Institute for Sustainable Development and International Relations, the French Committee for IUCN and the French Agency for Biodiversity on 20, 21 and 22 September 2017 in Paris. http://www.water-climate-workshop.com/



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