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Saturday, November 21, 2009 10:44 PM

Stockholm International Water Institute

Type: Company
Name: Stockholm International Water Institute
First Reported 11/03/2009 - Updated 11/03/2009 - 2 Documents
Scandinavian conference organiser wins three year global conference contract
Congrex Sweden, Scandinavia’s largest conference and event supplier, has won its bid to organise World Water Week, an event staged by the Stockholm International Water Institute (SIWI).World Water Week is an annual event held in Stockholm, which aims ... [Meetpie - 11/03/2009]
First Reported 11/03/2009 - Updated 11/03/2009 - 1 Documents (in Environment)
Absence of water from climate change text disappoints SIWI
New Delhi, Nov 3 : The Stockholm International Water Institute (SIWI) today expressed disappointment that current negotiating text for the coming Copenhagen meet on climate change does not have any clear reference to water's role in adaptation to the ... [NewKerala.com - 11/03/2009]
First Reported 11/04/2009 - Updated 11/04/2009 - 1 Documents (in Environment)
Water evaporates from the climate change negotiating text
© Anton Vorauer WWFNegotiators meeting this week in Barcelona for the last round of UN climate talks before a big conference in Copenhagen next month are working on negotiating texts that have no reference to water and its management as tools for climate ... [WWF - 11/04/2009]
First Reported 11/06/2009 - Updated 11/06/2009 - 1 Documents (in Environment)
African Nations, Activists Disrupt Barcelona Climate Talks
(ENS) - About 70 activists blocked the main entrance to the UN climate change negotiations in Barcelona on Wednesday, demanding steep cuts in the greenhouse gas emissions that are raising the planetary temperature.Calling themselves 'The Climate is not ... [Environment News Service - 11/06/2009]
First Reported 11/11/2009 - Updated 11/11/2009 - 1 Documents (in Environment)
GLOBAL: Barcelona meeting highlights key role of water in climate change adaptation
Governments, United Nations (UN) agencies, NGOs and water experts from around the globe gathered in Barcelona last week to urge negotiators to consider the critical role of water in climate change adaptation.Participants at the Water Day, held alongside ... [IWA Publishing - 11/11/2009]
First Reported 08/17/2009 - Updated 08/18/2009 - 2 Documents (in Environment)
Climate change fuels water issues
WATER WORLD Access to water key for world's poor: expertsAn international cast of politicians, industry leaders and United Nations officials joined forces Monday to improve access to water and halt a tide of deaths in poor nations. Some 2,000 experts ... [Terra Daily - 08/18/2009]
First Reported 08/26/2009 - Updated 08/26/2009 - 2 Documents
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World Water Week summit held in Stockholm
For the past week, an international entourage of industry leaders, politicians, and officials from the United Nations have been meeting in Stockholm for the annual World Water Week summit. The purpose of this event was to improve access to clean water ... [IceNews - Daily News - 08/26/2009]
First Reported 09/24/2009 - Updated 09/24/2009 - 1 Documents
BV's Jim Clark receives WEF's Engelbrecht International Achievement Award
OVERLAND PARK, KS, Sept. 24, 2009 -- James H. Clark, P.E., a vice president of Black & Veatch, has been selected by the Water Environment Federation (WEF) as the 2009 recipient of the organization's Engelbrecht International Achievement Award. The award ... [WaterWorld - 09/24/2009]
First Reported 08/19/2009 - Updated 08/19/2009 - 1 Documents
World Water Week: Water's global role addressed
:STOCKHOLM, SWEDEN - Scientists, government officials and other experts on August 17 formally opened the 2009 World Water Week, held here through August 22, during a plenary session addressing the event's central theme of global access to water.:According ... [Water Technology Online - 08/19/2009]
First Reported 08/16/2009 - Updated 08/16/2009 - 1 Documents (in Politics)
World Water Week 2009
World Water Week: 'Responding to Global Changes: Accessing Water for the Common Good" Leaders and experts gather in Stockholm to take stock of water-related issues STOCKHOLM, 16 August 2009 - Access to water is becoming more challenging every year due ... [UNICEF - 08/16/2009]

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...water related effects of climate change will come," said Anders Berntell, executive director of the Stockholm International Water Institute. "The challenge for many nations is how to adapt. Climate change is in effect water change, since it will be through water that the changes will be realised first and foremost."
Water evaporates from climate change negotiations [AlertNet - 11/03/2009]
...text for the coming Copenhagen meet on climate change does not have any clear reference to water's role in adaptation to the imminent change. "To a large extent, the global climate crisis is a global water crisis. Yet the latest iteration of the negotiating text on adaptation, the so-called Non-Paper 31, has deleted any clear references to water and its management as a vital consideration for climate change adaptation. This is despite increasing mobilisation by the water community to call for a strong outcome on water from Copenhagen" SIWI said
Absence of water from climate change text disappoints SIWI [NewKerala.com - 11/03/2009]
...:Participants unanimously supported the "Stockholm Statement," which says the "importance of water must be properly and adequately reflected within the COP-15 agreement, and in processes beyond COP-15." COP-15 is the UN Climate Change Conference, set for December 7-18
Put water in climate talks, Stockholm gathering urges [Water Technology Online - 08/26/2009]

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