Linking Water and Climate Diplomacy
Publisher: Adelphi
Author(s): Sabine Blumstein, Benjamin Pohl, and Dennis Tänzler
Date: 2016
Topics: Climate Change, Dispute Resolution/Mediation, Renewable Resources
Climate change poses numerous challenges for international river basins that are likely to intensify in the decades to come. These challenges will have significant socio-economic and political repercussions. Ensuring sustainable development and political stability in these basins, therefore requires effective adaptation to the impacts of climate change. To overcome existing shortcomings and strengthen adaptive capacities, the water (cooperation) and climate communities should engage proactively and seek to create synergies between their instruments. Foreign policymakers should support them in this process.
This brief summarizes the report "Water and Climate Diplomacy – Integrative Approaches for Adaptive Action in Transboundary River Basins." The full report can be found here: http://environmentalpeacebuilding.org/library/show/libraryitem-2427.