FAN members engage in COP17

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FAN members Sena Alouka from Jeunes Volontaires pour l'Environnement in Lomé, Togo, and Rolando Castro from CEDARENA in Costa Rica are raising the importance of water issues in climate change at COP17 in Durban.

Last year, at COP16, FAN Global attended the negotiations as a member of the Water and Climate Coalition (WCC) an alliance of twelve international organizations and research centres
working to raise the water and climate linkages in the context of the climate negotiations.

FAN representatives worked tirelessly at the UNFCCC climate change negotiations in Cancun, Mexico, to lobby governments and saw their hard work pay of when six countries called for water to be put on the climate agenda.

The proposal to include water in the agenda for the next session of the SBSTA was much welcomed by FAN and WCC as a first step.

Read more about our activities at COP16

At this year's COP17, Sena and Rolando will continue to highlight the role of water in climate change mitigation and adaptation and share their knowelge on this. They will also promote FAN's core messages on rights and governance:

  • The need to prioritise human rights within water, sanitation and hygiene
  • The importance of including CSOs in planning processes - learning from what works/what doesn't work at the community level and understanding the needs of the poor 

Water, Climate & Development Day at COP17

On the 3 and 6 December, international experts and senior policy makers in development, water, finance and climate will discuss and generate perspectives for implementing solutions in the following areas:

  • Global Policy Solutions
  • Financial and Institutional Solutions
  • Climate Change information Solutions for water resources
  • Infrastructure, Technical and Ecosystem Solutions

3 December 2011: Water Day and High Level Dialogue 1
6 December 2011: High Level Dialogue 2

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Useful documents

A technical paper prepared by the UNFCCC secretariat on water and climate change impacts and adaptation strategies for COP17 - Water and climate change impacts and adaptation strategies (PDF 273Kb)

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COP17 - day 1 (PDF 273Kb)

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