Can climate change adaptation support the integration of land and water management issues

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Can climate change adaptation support the
integration of land and water management issues?

by Johan Kuylenstierna Chief Technical Advisor to
the Chair UN Water/FAO
Land Day Bonn, 6 June 2009
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Time to be a realist?
The pessimist complains about the windThe
optimist expects it to changeAnd the realist
adjusts the sails. William Arthur Ward
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Since 2003 - How UN-Water works

• UN-Water is not another institution

• It is a coordination mechanism

• Governance
• Senior Programme Managers
• in charge of water in 26 UN
• agencies, funds and programmes
• Rotating chair (2 years)
• Holds biannual meetings

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Sectors
Agencies
System
FAO
Food production
Integrated Multi-sector Complex
Hygiene and sanitation
WHO
Ecosystems
UNEP
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Some considerations

• What is the water sector?
• Is there a land sector?
• Are there commonalities between land and water
  issues?
• Are land and water issues linked/ integrated?
• The issue of scales!

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WWF
IHA
IWA
SEWA
IFNet
Dialogue on Water for Food and the Environment
UPTW
Water and Nature Initiative
INBO
GIWA
Both Ends
CSD
Ecosan
GWP
GEF
SEI
SIWI
GEF
WWC
...and I guess the World of Land is not much
simpler!
ICID
IWLRI
World Panel on Financing Water Infrastructure
AFWAT
The World of Water is Very Complex
WASH
Cap-net
AMCOW
WWAP
PSI
Dialogue on Water and Governance
UNEP
Water Media Network
IWMI
ADB
Women for Water
WMO
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Water and Poverty Initiative
UNU
UNDP
Dialogue on Water and Climate
Peoples forum on Water
ILEC
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WBCSD
IWRA
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WMO
WSSCC
FAO
UNESCO
ICLEI
WHO
IUCN
CGIAR
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Water Scarcity 1
Picture Source Dr. Daniel Vermeer, Director,
Global Water Partnerships, The Coca-Cola Company
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1.4 billion People in Closed Basins
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The trouble with our time is that the future is
not what it used to be Paul Valery
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Storm picture from NASA.
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Uncertainty will be the rule as it always has
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Pressure on resources will continue to grow...

• Agriculture 70.....double to 2050?
• Industry 20....rapid increase, pollution
• Municipal 10....some increase, pollution
• Great national and regional differences
• Increase 6-fold since 1900 decoupling?
• Other users not well integrated energy?

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Considerations for the discussion...1

• Climate variability/change adaptation land and
  water management clearly essential
• Water security, food security, energy security,
  economic security------are all linked to land and
  water issues and thus to climate change
  adaptation
• Understanding drivers and interactions.
• Land and water issues are local CC adaptation
  issues still more discussed on a global scales

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Considerations for the discussion....2

• Balance between sectoral and integrated
  approaches
• Separate initiatives vs. integration in regular
  planning and management processes
• Management will need to deal increasingly with
  competing users and usages (conflict
  resolution)
• Focus on resilience building coping with
  variability.
• Assess/Invest in technology/infrastructure
  (backed by incentives to use them)
• Explore and implement no-regrets policies and
  investments
• Increase efficiency too much supply driven
• Move beyond traditional sectors

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So, can CC adaptation push the water/land
agenda?

• Push cross-sectoral priorities
• Positive impacts on governance
• Mobilize financial resources
• Five principles of the Nairobi Statement on
  Integrated Land and Water Resources Management
  for Climate Change Adaptation provides
  interesting framework

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"The best way to have a good idea is to have lots
of ideas."
Thank You
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