Task Force on Water and Climate
The fourth meeting of the Parties to the Water Convention ( 20–22 November 2006, Bonn) decided to transform the Flood Task Force into a Water and Climate Task Force, to be jointly led by Germany and the Netherlands. This new Task Force was entrusted with activities in two main areas of work: transboundary flood management and water and climate change adaptation.
In the area of transboundary flood management, the Task Force should support the transfer of the experience and results of the European Network of Expertise on Flood Risk Management to non-European Union countries. In the area of water and climate adaptation, the Task Force was entrusted to prepare a Guidance on Water and Climate Adaptation for adoption at the fifth Meeting of the Parties in November 2009. The Guidance should provide governments with strategic recommendations on how to implement adaptation in the water sector and throughout water-related policy sectors - especially the health sector - addressing in particular transboundary aspects.
The second meeting of the Task Force took place on 24 April 2009 in Geneva back-to-back with the Workshop on Transboundary Flood Risk Management (22-23 April 2009).
Documents for this meeting are available in the table below. For documents from previous meetings of the Task Force please click here.
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| Provisional Agenda |
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| List of participants |
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| TFWC/2009/2: Draft Guidance on Water and Climate Adaptation |
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| TFWC/2009/3: Comments from expert review |
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TFWC/2009/4: Cooperation with the Task Force on Extreme Weather Events under the Protocol on Water and Health and d raft guidelines on water supply and sanitation |
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| Presentation on the cooperation |
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| TFWC/2009/5: Future work |
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