Climate and the 2007 World Water Week in Stockholm

Water is at the very center of most climate-related effects, and climate issues will take center-stage at the 2007 World Water Week in Stockholm, August 12-18. Changes in water availability are what hit us first with an altered climate. Among the effects: too much or too little water; water at the wrong time or in the wrong place; rising sea levels; and floods in certain regions but drought in others. Annually, the World Water Week has addressed the multiple relations between...

May 17, 2007

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STOCKHOLM, May 16, 2007 -- Water is at the very center of most climate-related effects, and climate issues will take center-stage at the 2007 World Water Week in Stockholm, August 12-18.

Changes in water availability are what hit us first with an altered climate. Among the effects: too much or too little water; water at the wrong time or in the wrong place; rising sea levels; and floods in certain regions but drought in others. Annually, the World Water Week has addressed the multiple relations between climate change and water. It will do so even more this year with world-leading experts, among them Dr. R.K. Pachauri, Chairman, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, an August 15 Water and Climate Day, and more.

Key Climate Events
August 12
• Climate Change - Adaptive Management Within the Baltic Sea Drainage Basin
• Global Warming, Impacts on Transboundary Watersheds and Cooperation Among Basin Countries

August 13
• High Level Panel on Climate Change, Water and Vulnerability

August 15
• Striving for Adaptation: Water - The Key to Adapt to Climate Change
• Mainstreaming Climate into IWRM and the MDGs
• Clearing the Smoke in South East Asia: On the Way to the 13th Session of the Conference of the Parties
• Water and Climate Risks for African Cities

August 16
• Cities at Risk: A Warmer World and the Big Chill for Urban Planners. The Royal Colloquium in Honour of H. M. King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden

The World Water Week in Stockholm is the leading annual global meeting place for capacity-building, partnership-building and follow-up on the implementation of international processes and programs in water and development. The World Water Week in Stockholm is arranged by the Stockholm International Water Institute (SIWI). SIWI, together with the Swedish Environmental Protection Agency, is convening a seminar May 22 in Stockholm on the recently released third report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), which focused on "Mitigation of Climate Change". To read more, click here: www.siwi.org

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Also see:
-- "Call for Registration: 2007 World Water Week in Stockholm"
-- "High-Level Experts at the 2007 World Water Week"

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