UNU Update: Workshop on climate change and water

UNU Update
The newsletter of United Nations University and its international network of affiliated institutes

Issue 9: June 2001

Water
workshop
to focus on
implications
of climate
change

The implications of climate change for water resource management and policy development will be discussed at a workshop June 8 and 9 organized by UN University and the 3rd World Water Forum secretariat. The workshop, entitled Climate Variability, Climate Change and Water Resource Management, will take place at UNU Centre in Tokyo.

According to the latest report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climcate Change (IPCC), the current level of greenhouse gas emissions will cause the Earth's climate to warm at a rate unprecedented in the last 10,000 years, leading to widespread changes in global climate patterns and distribution of water resources.

These trends have not been fully integrated into water resource policy, planning and management. The purpose of the Tokyo workshop is to exchange view on the implications of climate change for water resource management and policy development and to identify a way forward.

Speakers will include:
Hediaki Oda, Secretary General of the 3rd World Water Forum Secretariat
Motoyuki Suzuki, Vice Rector of UNU
William J. Cosgrove, Vice-president of the World Water Council
Michael Glantz, of the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colorado

For more information, contact Libor Jansky, tel: +81-3-3499-2811; fax: +81-3-3406-7347.

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