Water and Climate in Focus: Changing Climate, Shifting Institutions: Building Governance & Capacity
2:30 p.m. (BST) / 9:30 a.m. (EDT) 6th September 2010
Streaming live from World Water Week in Stockholm, this session focuses on how institutions can learn and evolve with shifting climate conditions. Existing tools for managing water under a stationary climate can stabilise freshwater systems stressed by unsustainable use and rapid development, but climate change creates moving targets. Governance regimes must be increasingly flexible, span multiple futures and assess risk.
Chair: Dr. John H. Matthews, WWF-US, Dr. Mark Smith, IUCN and Dr. Tracy Farrell, CI
15:30 - Welcome. Tracy Farrell, CI
15:35 - Introduction. John H. Matthews, WWF-US
15:45 - Roundtable Discussions - Table facilitated by GTZ, addressing "Institutional set-up to balance conflicting water uses under a changing climate"
16:30 - Summary of key points from the roundtable discussions. Table sponsors
17:15 - Coffee Break
17:45 - Panel Debate
18:15 - Questions from the Audience and Panel’s Response
18:35 - Session synthesis. Dr. Mark Smith, IUCN
18:45 - Close of Seminar
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Convenors: World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF), Conservation International (CI), Cooperative Programme on Water and Climate (CPWC), German Technical Cooperation (GTZ), International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), Water Integrity Network (WIN) and Stockholm International Water Institute (SIWI) View Recording