2016 World Water Week programme
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Thursday | 1 September | 11:00-12:30<br />
Business leadership on groundwater, an enabler of sustainable growth<br />
Convenors: Earth Security Group and Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation<br />
Room: FH Little Theatre/Lilla teatern<br />
Earth Security Group will present a study of how 75 large multinationals communicate their groundwater risks, which identifies opportunities<br />
for corporate CEOs to support transboundary groundwater governance. The event will draw on these strategic insights to stimulate a live<br />
discussion among multinationals and policy-makers catalyse public-private cooperation.<br />
11:00 Welcome<br />
Johan Gély, Swiss Agency for<br />
Development and Cooperation<br />
11:05 Presentation<br />
Alejandro Litovsky, Founder<br />
CEO, Earth Security Group<br />
11:25 Panel discussion and Q&A<br />
Panelists:<br />
Anna Swaithes, SABMiller<br />
Alice Aureli, UNESCO-IHR<br />
11:30 Close of event<br />
Photo: Glyn Lowe Photoworks<br />
Drought, food security, migration and climate: Policy and conflict implications<br />
Convenors: German Development Institute IFAD, SIWI and United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification<br />
The event focuses on issues such as drought, food security, climate, water, migration and conflict. It will bring together academia, aid<br />
agencies, foreign and migration agencies, policy think tanks and the UN to identify linkages and options for reducing society’s vulnerability<br />
to drought hazards and conflicts.<br />
Room: NL 357<br />
11:00 Welcome<br />
11:05 Keynote: Climate change,<br />
droughts, and migration:<br />
Adaptation or conflicts, which<br />
will we choose?<br />
Robert Mcleman, Wilfrid Laurier<br />
University<br />
12:20 Wrap up and closing<br />
12:30 Close of event<br />
11:25 Panel discussion<br />
Moderator: Michael Brüntrup,<br />
DIE<br />
Panellists:<br />
Ousman Sowe, Ministry of<br />
Environment, Climate Change,<br />
<strong>Water</strong> and Wildlife, the Gambia<br />
Rikke Olivera, IFAD<br />
Mats Eriksson, SIWI<br />
Daniel Tsegai, UNCCD<br />
Photo: John Isaac, UN<br />
108 <strong>2016</strong> <strong>World</strong> <strong>Water</strong> <strong>Week</strong>: <strong>Water</strong> for sustainable growth
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