Tangled up in Blue: Integrating water stewardship into private sector climate strategies — Alliance for Global Water Adaptation (AGWA) 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.

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AGWA is an international NGO working across technical and policy programs to mainstream resilient water resources management, focusing on the connections between water resources and climate adaptation and mitigation. AGWA works with and through its member network to develop and crowdsource solutions across disciplines, institutions, and sectors. But less often considered, is the critical role of water in helping countries mitigate and adapt to climate change.

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I am so proud to work with Ingrid. She is a colleague who became a friend, who became a colleague as well again. I will always carry her water. Margot Conover Harriet Talbot Cate Lamb Suzannah Franks Seth Schultz Adam Freed J. Carl Ganter Cristina Rumbaitis del Rio Andrew Roby BEM Josh Weinberg Circle of Blue Ian James Lauren Herzer Risi Eliza Roberts Walker Young Dr Mark Fletcher FREng Stuart Orr US Water Alliance US Water Alliance Nicole Silk Dieter Rothenberger Giz David T. Margot Clarvis, PhD #winz #mitigation #climatesolutions #watermanagement #climatepolicy #climatechange #climatechangesolutions She is the first person to ever hold this incredibly important position, interleaving the #climatechange and water communities around common themes and missions. It is also useful for line ministries, civil society, investment banks, aid agencies and other groups with a stake in evaluating the credibility and efficacy of national climate plans. Who is involved?

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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 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. 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. 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! We are organizing a webinar on an “Introduction to Water Resilience as an Economic Concept” to go along with launching the updated report "Enabling Resilient Economies: Catalyzing Prosperity and Structural Transformation Through Water 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! Simply put, water resilience means the ability of water-related policies, plans and investments to cope with climate-related impacts.

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Water is the lifeblood of society, the economy and the natural environment. But climate change means that the availability of water for drinking, ecosystems, agriculture, industry and energy can no longer be assumed. With increasing competition for limited water resources, there will be difficult tradeoffs to make. 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. 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, 28 April 2022 // Sanitation and Water for All When it comes to climate change, water is a resource not a risk

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Water resilience represents a level of awareness that is higher than has been described by more than a handful of extant NDCs. Article, 28 September 2022 // Ministerio de Ambiente de Panamá Panamá cuenta con una nueva herramienta centrada en la protección del recurso hídrico In AGWA, we have learned that water resilience provides an essential, informative compass for most adaptation and resilience strategies, policies, and actions, with some critical climate mitigation co-benefits. Water is widely recognized as both a major component of many climate-related disasters — the “teeth” of climate change. Building water resilience is an approach to water management, planning, and policy that can integrate many sectors, reduce sectoral, political, and institutional conflict, and clarify sequencing, priorities, and contingencies. 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. AGWA's Policy Director Seconded to COP28 Presidency Team — Alliance for Global Water Adaptation (AGWA)