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What is the Budapest Water Summit?

What is the Budapest Water Summit?. Objectives: take stock of the various developments, provide defining contributions The expected outcome of the Summit: Budapest Recommendations on Water and Sanitation.

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What is the Budapest Water Summit?

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  1. What is the Budapest Water Summit? Objectives: take stock of the various developments, provide defining contributions The expected outcome of the Summit: Budapest Recommendations on Water and Sanitation Intended audience: Member States of the United Nations, competent UN bodies, international organisations, international development banks, private philanthropic organisations, civil society organisations and the private sector

  2. Budapest Recommendations on Water and Sanitation • Identify the concrete possible water-related building blocks of a “Big Water SDG” • To be incorporated into future SMART SDGs as well as the post-2015 development agenda • Follows the structure of the Summit, concentrating on the five thematic areas • Recommendation published on website of the Summit in mid July

  3. What is the Budapest Water Summit? • Connections to other previous and future events: • Conclusions of the 6th World Water Forum, held in Marseille, France, March 2012. • Proceedings of the World Water Day events in March 2013 to be held in The Hague, The Netherlands. • Stockholm World Water Week in September 2013. • 68th session of the United Nations General Assembly with a view to providing contributions to the 7th World Water Forum to be held in Daegu, Republic of Korea in 2015. • The Water Summit forms part of the events of the UN International Year of Water Cooperation led by UNESCO.

  4. Topics of the Budapest Water Summit Areas covered • Striving for access to water and sanitationuniversal: access to water and sanitation, urban water infrastructure planning, waste water management • Integrated water resources management for the 21st century: challenges of adaptation and resilience in face of a growing population and a changing climate • Good water governance: international cooperation, transboundary river basin and aquifer management

  5. Topics of the Budapest Water Summit • Green economy for blue water: traditional and innovative water technologies in the context of sustainable development and poverty eradication • Financing the implementation of water and sanitation SDGs: the availability and best use of national and international financial resources and institutions

  6. Structure of the Budapest Water Summit • Structure • Issues will be discussed in five thematic Summit sessions and summarised in a closing joint plenary • Each thematic session will be introduced by three keynote speeches • The keynote addresses will be followed by moderated Davos-type discussions • The closing joint plenary will adopt the recommendations • Next to the Summit sessions parallel stakeholder meetings will be held

  7. Thank you for your attention!

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