Fwd: Living Earth Green Water Dialogue in UNESCO tomorrow 28 November 15:00-18:00 CET

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От: Anastassia Makarieva <ammak...@gmail.com>
Date: чт, 27 нояб. 2025 г. в 12:25
Subject: Living Earth Green Water Dialogue in UNESCO tomorrow 28 November 15:00-18:00 CET
To: <livin...@googlegroups.com>

Dear colleagues,

For your possible interest, below is the information about a UNESCO event I will take part in tomorrow. Registration via zoom is possible from the UNESCO page

https://www.unesco.org/en/articles/green-water-dialogue

Best wishes,

Anastassia

Green Water Dialogue

As part of the celebrations marking the 50th anniversary of the Intergovernmental Hydrological Programme (IHP) and 60 years of UNESCO Water Sciences, UNESCO will convene the Green Water Leadership Dialogue to place green water at the centre of discussions on science, policy, and sustainable development.

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28 November 2025

Event

Green Water Dialogue

28 November 2025 - 3:00 pm - 28 November 2025 - 6:00 pm

Location

UNESCO Headquarters, Paris, France

Rooms :

Room XI

Type :

Cat VIII - Symposia

Arrangement type :

Hybrid

Language(s) :

French

Spanish

English

While blue water, the water flowing through rivers, lakes, and aquifers, has long dominated global water governance, green water, the moisture stored in soils and absorbed by vegetation, remains largely invisible in global water governance and climate frameworks. Yet it plays a vital role in sustaining food production, ecosystem health, and climate resilience.

As climate change intensifies droughts, land degradation, and ecosystem stress, managing green water more effectively is becoming essential to advancing the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and strengthening the water–climate–land nexus, particularly in support of SDG 2 (Zero Hunger), SDG 6 (Clean Water and Sanitation), SDG 13 (Climate Action), and SDG 15 (Life on Land).

About the event

The Green Water Dialogue is bringing together UNESCO Member States representatives, water and climate experts, development partners, and private-sector and academic actors. The discussion will contribute to shaping UNESCO’s future work on water and resilience under the Intergovernmental Hydrological Programme.

Objectives

• Foster dialogue to elevate the importance of green water in the global water agenda.
• Explore pathways for integrating green water into water governance, climate strategies, and the SDG framework.
• Promote collaboration among Member States, scientists, development partners, the private sector, and academia to bridge science and policy.

Speakers

Abou Amani, IHP Secretary and Director of the Water Sciences Division, UNESCO  

Newly elected IHP Chair

Henk Ovink, Executive Director, Global Commission on the Economics of Water

Åse Johannessen, Senior Advisor, Deltares, The Netherlands

Anna Tengberg, Senior Advisor, International Centre for Water Cooperation, Sweden 

Anastassia Makarieva, Senior Researcher, Petersburg Nuclear Physics Institute, Russian Federation

Abdelrehim Yehia, AWARe Programme Coordinator

Nikolai Sindorf, Chief Technical Officer, Alliance for Global Water Adaptation

Nestor Ambuy-A-Tam Musambi, Advisor to the Minister, Congo

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