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In AGWA, we have learned that water resilience provides an essential, informative compass for most adaptation and resilience strategies, policies, and actions, with some critical climate mitigation co-benefits. Water is widely recognized as both a major component of many climate-related disasters — the “teeth” of climate change. Building water resilience is an approach to water management, planning, and policy that can integrate many sectors, reduce sectoral, political, and institutional conflict, and clarify sequencing, priorities, and contingencies. Since 2010, AGWA has been working as a global network to develop, crowd-source, and mainstream the emerging practice of climate resilience, especially with regard to water management. Our work includes both technical and policy programs. Through direct engagement with our members, AGWA enables hundreds of institutions and thousands of individuals globally to align their vision, co-construct tools to enable resilience, and intertwine emerging technical knowledge, finance instruments, and policy processes into synthetic, integrated tools and methodologies. Drivers such as climate change and many forms of recent social, political, and economic change reveal that overly narrow interventions can ignore interactions with other social-ecological systems, depend on inappropriately precise and fixed data, or promote largely incremental adjustments that may not encompass the true scale of impacts and challenges. Promoting robustness to extreme flooding and extreme droughts may simply be unfeasible, while the deferral for additional clarity and certainty about the future through flexibility may not always match the needs of decision makers for action. Deep resilience has been used to describe a new set of approaches that explicitly link problems as divergent as flood and drought prevention for the same location and sharing critical resources between energy, agriculture, and cities. By focusing on the need for resilient interactions between projects, proposed solutions may become more cohesive and coherent to promote cross-sectoral and systemic resilience. When decision makers assume that deep uncertainty is a defining quality of these problems, proposed solutions can make uncertainty-tolerant use of ecosystems and nature-based solutions (NbS), governance systems, and freshwater resources.

The Water Tracker: Find the Water to Build Resilience!

For this Research Topic, we seek papers that describe deep resilience as an operational and/or policy framework, how deep resilience projects can be evaluated for financing and success, examples of managing with rather than against change and uncertainty, and how technical decision makers can transition from narrow problem definition to more integrative and coherent solutions. AGWA is an international NGO working across technical and policy programs to mainstream resilient water resources management, focusing on the connections between water resources and climate adaptation and mitigation. AGWA works with and through its member network to develop and crowdsource solutions across disciplines, institutions, and sectors. She is the first person to ever hold this incredibly important position, interleaving the #climatechange and water communities around common themes and missions.Article, 15 March 2022 // MINAE 42 representantes de instituciones se capacitan en resilienca del agua y planificación climática Water resilience represents a level of awareness that is higher than has been described by more than a handful of extant NDCs. We will be sharing Ingrid for the next six months with #UAE, while her policy work in AGWA will be shadowed by the capable and entrepreneurial Josh Weinberg. More about him soon!

Water Tracker for National Climate Planning

John started and led WWF’s freshwater climate adaptation program in 2007 before co-founding the Alliance for Global Water Adaptation (AGWA) in 2010, where he remains the Executive Director. He has led the development of a variety of climate risk reduction methodologies that have been used in dozens of countries, prepared green bond criteria that have certified more than 15 billion USD in water resilience investments across six continents, and advised well over 100 countries on their national climate commitments. Countries around the world are developing climate plans — such as Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) and National Adaptation Plans (NAPs) — to meet commitments of the Paris Agreement. But, these plans typically neglect the strategic role of water in climate solutions.There will be a particular focus on the use of open-source data, conducting climate risk assessments, and tools for decision-making under uncertainty. AGWA is thrilled to be hosting this session in collaboration with Deltares, Arup, and International Water Management Institute (IWMI). AgWA uses the definition provided by the CAADP, that understands Agricultural Water Management (AWM) as the continuum from rainfall management through to irrigation for food production [ ...] World Water Week 2023 is just around the corner and we'll be there bridging the water and climate policy worlds! From unpredictable rainfall patterns to extreme floods and droughts, water is widely recognized at the forefront of many climate disasters — the “teeth” of climate change.

Alliance for Global Water Adaptation (AGWA) John Matthews — Alliance for Global Water Adaptation (AGWA)

But less often considered, is the critical role of water in helping countries mitigate and adapt to climate change. Advocacy -Disseminating information on AWM and setting the topic on top of the national /international agenda; Partner harmonization - Providing a platform for closer collaboration, policy-dialogue and harmonization between partners; John has been working at the intersection of water with climate adaptation and resilience since 2007. His work explores how we define, develop, and accelerate the uptake of our emerging set of best practices for climate resilience.

Promoting investment in water resources management to unlock Africa’s agriculture potential

Water is needed in efforts to reduce carbon emissions, such as generating renewable energy and sequestering carbon.