Antea Group Belgium at UN Water Conference

Water is essential for sustaining healthy ecosystems and the well-being of people. Through the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and other international initiatives, the world has committed to solving many of the global water challenges and the impact of climate change, but we need to step up the effort to achieve our goals.

As part of its participation in the United Nations Water Conference, Antea Group is organizing the lunch session:

Water as support of livelihood on Earth, a social-ecological resilience approach.

Where: Permanent Mission of Belgium, 885 Second Avenue 41st Floor, New York, NY 10017
When: Thursday 23rd March 2023 from 13h15 – 14h45 (EST)

New innovative coalitions of stakeholders are needed to accelerate the water and climate agenda across the world, as well as state-of-the are tools and methods to connect and improve interventions at all levels. We draw on different examples on how alliances, networks, living labs and transboundary project bring together stakeholders at different levels and from different disciplines.

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AGENDA

Introduction

Why social-ecological resilience? Introduction by Tom D’Haeyer – International lead Water & Climate, Antea Group

Welcome

Flanders as drought resilience living lab, a fruitful collaboration between policy, industry and citizens, by Minister Zuhal Demir

Collaborating spaces strengthening social-ecological resilience

A social-ecological resilience approach recognizes the complex and dynamic nature of social and ecological systems and the need for integrated and collaborative approaches to address the impacts of climate change. This approach involves assessing the vulnerability of social and ecological systems to climate change, identifying adaptive strategies that can enhance their resilience, and implementing those strategies in a collaborative and integrated manner.

Speakers:

Water Always Wins. Thriving in a Age of Drought and Deluge, by Erica Gies
Flanders Blue Deal project Landscape park Burchdam – green-blue climate buffers in an urban landscape by Alexander De Ruijter - Antea Group
Strenghtening resilience in the Belgian Development Cooperation thought the Network on Socio-ecological resilience – Case Burundi, by Nestor Mburente - AVEDEC, SECORES, Join For Water
The economic systems transformation initiative - Water Resilience for Economic Resilience by John Matthews Executive Director - AGWA
Charco Bendito: BIER’s Unprecedented Watershed Collaboration in Jalisco, Mexico, by Alex Mung - ABInbev

Panel

Valintin Aich (Program manager GWP/WMO)Integrating Knowledge and Practice for Drought Resilience – Towards the High-Level Meeting of National Drought Policy +10
Vidhisha Samarasekara (Strategic Program Director – Water, Climate Change and Resilience – IWMI) Building Climate Resilience through Enhanced Water Security in MENA
John Matthews (Executive Director - AGWA) The economic systems transformation initiative - Water Resilience for Economic Resilience
Cate Nimanya (Director Regional Africa - Water for People) Creating a world where everyone has safe drinking water, forever

Moderator

Inge Genné - VITO

Closing

The Belgian Copernicus Collaborative Ground Segment Terrascope platform, funded by BELSPO and hosted at VITO by Ambassador Luc Jacobs, Special Envoy for Climate and Environment (Belgium)