Joakim Harlin Senior Water Resources Advisor Water Governance Programme

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

2. A world rich in water for some …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 Source: Comprehensive Assessment of Water Management in Agriculture, 2007.

3. Multiple Drivers Sector Oriented Governance

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

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

6. 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 Towards adaptation apartheid

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

8. The UN System Delivering as One.... 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)

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

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

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

12. For CC-Water UNDPs role is to: • 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

13. UNDPs role, cont. • 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

14. Examples of UNDP CC-A actions • 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.

15. 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 Some good news …

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