Stockholm International Water Institute » UNEP http://www.siwi.org Water Wise World Wed, 18 Sep 2013 08:20:07 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 SIWI food waste video to be screened at the UN Global Compact Leaders Summit http://www.siwi.org/news/siwi-video-food-waste/ http://www.siwi.org/news/siwi-video-food-waste/#comments Mon, 16 Sep 2013 08:48:01 +0000 Sanna http://www.siwi.org/?post_type=news&p=7104 This Thursday September 19 the short film WASTE, a collaboration between SIWI, UNEP, WWF Germany and FAO, will be screened at the UN Global Compact Leaders Summit in New York.

The video illuminates the environmental cost of food waste and presents a comprehensive overview of the negative effects of wasting food. A tremendous amount of water can be saved by reducing losses and waste of food. By curbing food waste, energy is saved and the emission of greenhouse gases can be reduced. Equally important, consumers can save a great deal of money by not letting their food go to waste.

The video will be screened during the UNEP Side Event “The Global Environmental Impact of Food Waste”. Read more on the UN Global Compact Leaders Summit website.

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]]> http://www.siwi.org/news/siwi-video-food-waste/feed/ 0 Transboundary Waters Assessment Programme (TWAP) http://www.siwi.org/project/twap/ http://www.siwi.org/project/twap/#comments Wed, 14 Nov 2012 10:29:43 +0000 Nora http://www.siwi.org/?post_type=project&p=2307 The socio-economic development and well-being of a significant part of the world’s population depends on transboundary waters, many of which are under increasing pressure from human activities and climate change. Currently, there is no systematic and scientifically-robust methodology to assess the changing conditions of five different types of transboundary water systems (transboundary groundwater; transboundary lakes/reservoirs; transboundary river basins; Large Marine Ecosystems (LMEs); and open ocean areas) that result from human activities, as well as natural and climate related events. Consequently, policy makers and international organisations are unable to be set priorities for financial resource allocation that is based upon full scientific assessment. Developing such a methodology also would facilitate the identification and assessment of positive changes in the environmental and resource situations in the transboundary water systems that result from interventions by national authorities and international/regional actors.

The Transboundary Waters Assessment Programme (TWAP) Programme will address this need by developing:

  1. a partnership among organisations;
  2. a methodology to assessment and track results for each of the five categories of transboundary water systems (transboundary groundwater; transboundary lakes/reservoirs; transboundary river basins; Large Marine Ecosystems (LMEs); and open ocean areas) under the Transboundary Waters Assessment Programme; and
  3. conduct a baseline transboundary waters assessment that may be conducted following completion of the MSP.

The periodic assessment will be sustained in the future through the partnership of agencies and organisations, and include data series collected by Global Environment Facility International Waters (GEF-IW) projects that would be useful to those agencies and to UNEP’s GEO process.

Project Info

  • Project team: Anders Jägerskog, Anton Earle, John Joyce, Kyungmee Kim
  • Partners: UNEP-DEWA in partnership with UNESCO-IOC, UNESCO-IHP, UCC-Water, SIWI, IGRAC, Finland, BMZ/BGR, ETH-Zurich, IUCN, ILEC, GRID-Arendal, LOICZ, GESAMP, Linnaeus University, University of Western Cape
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