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Water cooperation must remain at core of climate action, urges UNECE at COP28

The 6th IPCC assessment and the 2023 IPCC synthesis report recognize transboundary risks across the food, energy and water...

Groundwater Correspondents Network

Seventeen correspondents from 17 different countries were selected for this first wave of correspondents. Their contributions will, among other...

IWA Water and Development Congress and Exhibition

The four-day event is titled ‘Water, sanitation, and climate resilience – keys to a water-wise future’ and aims to...

Water and Climate Leaders call to action on water, energy, and climate at COP28

In an event organized by the COP 28 Presidency together with champion country partners and international organizations, the leaders...

COP28: Water is critical to climate change mitigation

The research, being carried out in collaboration with the International Universities Climate Alliance (IUCA), sets out to identify what...

2023 UN Climate Change Conference, COP28 opens today

UN climate conferences are government-level, large-scale annual gatherings focused on climate action. They are also referred to as ‘COP’...

UNU Report: How Bitcoin Mining Impacts Climate, Water and Land

Bitcoin mining is the term given to the computational process carried out by networked computers to solve extremely complicated...

Report: Interconnected Disaster Risks 2023

This year’s edition analyses six interconnected risk tipping points, representing immediate and increasing risks across the world. One of...

GloWAL: A New Global Water Resources Initiative

A new global laboratory network is empowering countries around the world to generate the data needed to manage their...

Evaluation of ILO’s work in the rural economy

Covering the period 2016-23, the evaluation focused on rural employment, using data gathered through a synthesis of 32 reports...

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