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The United Nations held its first water conference in decades, focusing on crises and solutions. ... A boat that sat underwater for years was exposed in August 2022 on the drying bed of Lake Mead ...
The United Nations Water Conference was the first intergovernmental meeting on problems ensuring adequate water supply for the future. Delegates from 105 countries, as well as intergovernmental and non-governmental organizations, were also present. Its purpose was to avoid a water crisis at the end of the century.
Some of the areas of work of the Protocol are: small scale water supplies, water supply and sanitation in extreme weather events, water-related disease surveillance, equitable access to water and sanitation etc. [36] The Protocol on Water and Health entered into force in 2005. As of 2013, it has been ratified by 26 European states. [37]
2022 United Nations Climate Change Conference; United States–Africa Leaders Summit 2022; ... World Trade Organization Ministerial Conference of 2022
By leveraging water in addressing our climate crisis, we may succeed not only in achieving net zero emissions, but become carbon-negative.
UN-Water members and partners have helped embed water and sanitation in several agreements, such as the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development (which led to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)), the 2015-2030 Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction, the 2015 Addis Ababa Action Agenda on Financing for Development, and the 2015 Paris Agreement within the UN Convention Framework on ...
United Nations conferences on the environment (1 C, 6 P) Pages in category "United Nations conferences" The following 50 pages are in this category, out of 50 total.
The International Law Commission (ILC) was requested by the United Nations in 1970 to prepare viable international guidelines for water use comparable to The Helsinki Rules on the Uses of the Waters of International Rivers, which had been approved by the International Law Association in 1966 but which failed to address aquifers that were not connected to a drainage basin.