12th of July in Room A 1:15pm to 2:30pm there will be a side event ‘Water – Food – Energy - Climate Nexus
On
Tuesday the 12th of July in Room A 1:15pm to 2:30pm
there will be a side event ‘Water – Food – Energy - Climate Nexus’
The event will have authors from the recently published book ‘The Water,
Food, Energy and Climate Nexus.’
Global trends of population growth, rising
living standards and the rapidly increasing urbanized world are increasing the
demand on water, food and energy. Added to this is the growing threat of
climate change which will have huge impacts on water and food availability.
It is increasingly clear that there is no
place in an interlinked world for isolated solutions aimed at just one sector.
In recent years the "nexus" has emerged as a powerful concept to
capture these inter-linkages of resources and is now a key feature of
policy-making.
This book is one of the first to provide a
broad overview of both the science behind the nexus and the implications for
policies and sustainable development. It brings together contributions by
leading intergovernmental and governmental officials, industry, scientists and
other stakeholder thinkers who are working to develop the approaches to the
Nexus of water-food-energy and climate. It represents a major synthesis and
state-of-the-art assessment of the Nexus by major players, in light of the
adoption by the United Nations of the new Sustainable Development Goals and
Targets in 2015.
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Moderated
by Reinhard Krapp, Minister: Head of Economic Department of the
Government of GermanyFelix
Dodds: editor of the book: Senior Affiliate of the
Water Institute and a Senior Fellow at the Global Research Institute
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Agriculture will have to produce 70 % more
food by 2050
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Primary energy needs will need to increase
by 50 % by 2035
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Demand for water will exceed global
availability by 40 % in 2030
I hope you can come after
the event there will be a signing of the book and the buying if you want at the
UN bookshop (230-330)
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