Joakim Harlin Senior Water Resources Advisor Water Governance Programme Bridging the Climate and Water Agenda UNDP and UN-Water priorities Barcelona, November 2009

A world rich in water for some Source: Comprehensive Assessment of Water Management in Agriculture, …But millions of the world’s people lack access to safe water not because of scarcity, but because they are locked out by poverty, inequality and failures of governance. UNDP Human Development Report 2006

Multiple Drivers Sector Oriented Governance

Water Related Climate Change Impacts TEMPERTURE, PRECIPTION, EVAPOTRANSPIRATION Water Agriculture Health Infrastructure Energy Hydropower Thermal Cooling Transportation Urban Storm water Flood Control Dams, pipes and canals etc Malaria Waterborne diseases Irrigation -Net Crop Water Demand Rain fed Yield Impacts Runoff Water Supply/Yield Floods & Droughts Water Quality Erosion Mean annual changes Changes in seasonality Changes in inter-annual variability Changes in intensity Changes in extreme events Ecosystem collapse Storm intensification Drought Air, water pollution Fires Glacial outbursts Flooding, inundation Desertification Heat waves Monsoon change Coral loss Fisheries disruption Hydrological, glacial changes Warming, glacial retreat Disease range expansion Drought

Impacts on water resources affects the poor Water scarcity Floods & extreme weather Water related diseases Sea level rise

Towards adaptation apartheid 1 in 19 people in developing countries vs 1 in 1,500 in developed countries affected by disasters Poor predisposed to convert risk into vulnerability Long term effects –Indian women born during a flood in 1970s -19% less likely to attend school US$279 million pledged -10% delivered

Promoting coherence in and coordination of, UN system actions UN Agencies and Programs UN Agencies and Programs Non-UN Partners Non-UN Partners FAO, UNESCO, WHO, WMO, UNEP, UNDP, UNICEF,...24 Agencies GWP, WWC, SIWI,...and others

A strategic joint framework of activities, e.g. Focus Areas Adaptation (collectively) Technology Transfer (UNIDO, UN-DESA) Reduction of emissions from deforestation and degradation (REDD) (UNDP, FAO, UNEP) Financing mitigation and adaptation action (UNDP, World Bank Group) Capacity Building (UNDP, UNEP) Cross-cutting areas include: Climate knowledge: Science, assessment, monitoring and early warning (WMO, UNESCO) Support global, regional and national action (UNDESA, UN Regional Commissions, UNDP) Public awareness (UNCG, UNEP) The UN System Delivering as One....

Supporting Adaptation anticipatory ad hoc deliberative reactive Historical experience Disaster response Adaptation projects Through adaptation interventions we are attempting to move from reactive and ad hoc toward anticipatory & deliberative adaptation

No-regrets Climate change impact Current climate variability impact on water resources Current ability to cope with variability and manage water resources Adaptation response

Paradigm Shift Climate change impact Current climate variability impact on water resources Current ability to cope with variability and manage water resources Adaptation response Climate change impact

Raise awareness of water and climate issues and integrate climate change consideration into water governance reform, participatory scenario planning and capacity building for WRM & WSS Enhance national capacities in the developing countries to mainstream climate change into water resource management and decision making processes Assess financing requirements, sources and flows for adaptation response measures For CC-Water UNDPs role is to:

Support vertically integrated development, coordination and implementation of water related CC adaptation strategies – transboundary, national, local scales (IWRM). Capacity building and knowledge management. Facilitate a coordinated UN system support at national level UNDPs role, cont.

A training manual on IWRM and Climate Change has been developed by Cap-Net with WMO, UNESCO- IHE. Training materials on urban flood management, community flood management, integrated flood management etc by Cap-Net. The UNDP adaptation portfolio is worth approximately 200 million USD of which 14 M USD are water related adaptation projects. 58 countries. UNDP supports 29 Least Developed Countries to prepare (NAPAs), & assists with the implementation of identified adaptation priorities. Examples of UNDP CC-A actions

Some good news …  Good investment! Water and sanitation investments generate broad economic benefits that considerably outweigh the costs. The average economic benefit of a $1 investment in sanitation is $9.1 return and $4.4 on water Global commitment to make rapid progress! Water and sanitation impacts all the MDG’s - goal 7 is about halving, by 2015, the proportion of people without safe drinking water and basic sanitation. More sustainable water resources management – advancing IWRM

TO MAKE IT HAPPEN…. It is imperative to recognize the pivotal role of water in adapting to climate change in order to increase resilience and achieve sustainable development!