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World Water Week – Making a statement

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Next June 4-6, global leaders will gather for the 2012 United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development in Rio de Janeiro (Rio+20 Summit), where they will seek to construct a new path for the global transition towards a green economy. At the closing of the World Water Week in Stockholm, participants provided a clear message to the heads of government, UN bodies, and civil society organisations as they make their preparations for next years Summit: The foundation of the green economy will rest on our ability to equitably and efficiently manage our water, energy and food resources.

Article in Stockholm Water Front, issue no 3, 2011.

Stockholm Water Front No. 3 2010

admin — Thu, 15 Nov 2012 16:48:49 +0000

In this issue of Water Front, you can visit back to the 2010 World Water Week in Stockholm, and recapture highlights leading up to the closing of the 2010 Stockholm Statement. The United Nations Environmental Programme contributes with a feature on the effects on industrial pollution on ecosystems and human well-being. A feature on water quality in Stockholm gives good practices and examples from Europe’s first Green Capital on managing water and sanitation with an ecological approach. Much more in the November issue of the Stockholm Water Front!

The Stockholm Statement and Reflections on the MDG Summit

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The Stockholm Statement Our Goals Need Water
At the closing session of this year’s World Water Week, participants voted unanimously on a statement to the MDG Review Summit. The Stockholm Statement stipulates that MDGs cannot be achieved without giving more attention to water and sanitation as cross-cutting solutions for achieving the other goals in addition to their status as MDG targets.

Reflections on the MDG Summit
The timing could have been pure coincidence. But just one week after the UN Millennium Development Goal Summit in New York, the UN Human Rights Council recognised the right to water and sanitation as a human right.

Urgent Action Needed for Water Security – 2002 Stockholm Statement

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Concerning the World Summit on Sustainable Development in Johannesburg 2002, the Stockholm Water Symposia presented four recommendations in order to reach the goal of halve the proportion of people living in extreme poverty, suffering from hunger or unable to reach or afford safe drinking water. The recommendations presented in this policy brief insist on that the link between economic growth and water degradation must be urgently broken and that policy, planning and implementation must be based on integrated solutions with focus at stakeholder participation.