Background
Guaranteeing water, vitality and meals safety for all is among the biggest challenges dealing with humanity. Already at present, virtually a billion folks don’t have entry to consuming water, a billion folks undergo from starvation and a pair of.5 billion folks don’t have entry to fashionable types of vitality. These challenges will intensify sooner or later. The OECD Environmental Outlook to 2050 predicts that international demand for vitality and water will enhance by 80% and 55% respectively by 2050. As well as, the FAO estimates a rise of 60 % of meals demand over the identical interval. Inhabitants progress, financial growth and local weather change will speed up competitors for meals, water and vitality.
This strain on sources creates rising considerations in regards to the availability, accessibility, distribution and sustainability of water, meals and vitality for all. These constraints may jeopardize the elemental growth targets of bettering human well-being, financial growth and poverty eradication. Looking forward to Rio+20, the Nexus Convention 2011 in Bonn contributed to a greater understanding of the interdependencies between water, vitality and meals safety and highlighted the necessity for extra systemic considering to determine synergies and trade-offs between completely different sectors, curiosity teams and targets of growth. There’s a clear want to maneuver from a ‘silo’ strategy to extra built-in policy-making in these areas. Enhancing the alignment of coverage targets can assist nations higher handle the dangers of water, vitality, and meals shortage whereas constructing resilience within the face of accelerating pressures from international traits.
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The discussion board centered on 4 areas that may contribute to extra built-in policymaking. Dialogue subjects included the necessity to perceive the long-term impacts of the hyperlink on progress; methods to enhance coherence between nationwide, regional and native planning and priorities; the significance of selling personal sector funding within the nexus; and easy methods to combine the nexus into the broader growth agenda, notably within the context of post-2015 discussions. The Discussion board opened with a high-level assembly of World Dialogue on Water Safety and Sustainable Development. |
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Target market
- Senior Officers and Senior Officers from OECD International locations and Non-OECD International locations
- enterprise leaders
- Non-public and long-term traders
- Leaders of non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and different civil society organizations
- Representatives of intergovernmental organizations
- Representatives of worldwide monetary establishments and donor companies
- Main consultants within the water, vitality and meals sectors
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November 27 |
merchandise on the agenda |
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09:00 |
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09:15 |
Welcome remarks and opening speech by Angel Gurría, Secretary-Normal of the OECD |
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09:30 – 11:00 |
Water, vitality, meals: dangers and compromises for sustainable progress |
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11:00 – 11:30 |
espresso break |
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11:30 a.m. – 1:00 p.m. |
Combine the hyperlink into nationwide planning |
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13:00 – 14:30 |
lunch |
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13:00 – 14:30 |
Parallel lunch-debate: “New views on the nexus between water, vitality and meals in Japanese Europe, the Caucasus and Central Asia (EECCA)” |
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2:30 p.m. – 4:00 p.m. |
Regional and native views on the nexus |
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4:00 p.m. – 4:30 p.m. |
espresso break |
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4:30 p.m. – 6:00 p.m. |
Perceive long-term traits and interactions |
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November 28 |
merchandise on the agenda |
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09:30 – 11:00 |
Get the appropriate funding incentives |
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11:00 – 11:30 |
espresso break |
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11:30 a.m. – 1:00 p.m. |
Integrating the hyperlink between funding and growth |
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13:00 – 14:30 |
lunch |
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2:30 p.m. – 4:30 p.m. |
The Nexus within the post-2015 growth agenda |
Agricultural insurance policies and help
Sustainable agriculture
Sustainable funding in agriculture
Setting and Improvement
Inexperienced progress and sustainable growth
OECD CIRCLE mission (Prices of inaction and useful resource shortage: implications for long-term financial progress)
water governance
water security
Coverage Instructions for Investing in Clear Vitality Infrastructure
IEA Water for Vitality
IEA Nexus Discussion board on the climate-energy safety nexus: water and vitality
IEA Nexus Discussion board on the Local weather-Vitality Safety Nexus: Constructing Vitality Sector Resilience
Should you want extra data or help, please contact the Discussion board workforce: nexus@oecd.org
Kate Eklin: +33 1 45 24 98 62
Ruth Catts Lemaire: +33 1 45 24 64 12
Convention Heart: +33 1 45 24 82 00
The OECD World Discussion board on the Setting (GFENV) is an occasion that brings collectively worldwide consultants from member and non-member economies to share experiences and discover frequent coverage points. The Discussion board will carry collectively a variety of high-level coverage consultants, personal sector leaders and financiers within the water, vitality and meals sectors to debate and focus on how the securities of water, meals and vitality compete on the bottom; and discover how nations can overcome challenges by balancing completely different and rising wants.