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4 The News N° 28 - February 2018 international events On the occasion of the COP23 in Bonn, the Global Alliances for Water and Climate - GAfWaC - opened their website to inform all stakeholders involved in the actions taken to combat the effects of climate change in the water sector. The “Alliances” website will be a show- case for Water and Climate, including the positive progresses made with the Flagship Adaptation Projects launched at the COP21, such as the Hydrological Information System of the transboundary Congo River, the inte- grated management of the Hai River in China, the strengthening of the new Mexico Metro- politan Organization for Urban Stormwater Drainage or the “Eco-cuencas” Climate Adapt Cooperation project between European and Andean countries. The site also presents the projects launched at the COP 22, such as the Sebou River manage- ment in Morocco, the creation of the “Hydrus” Water Adapt Training Center in Brasilia, cooperation between the Agglome- rations of Paris and Manila, the launching of a Euro-Mediterranean water information platform or the future use of the SWOT satellite for hydrological observations of the earth, among others. It will report on the activity of the four GAfWaC Constitutive Alliances, international water and climate events and their conclu- sions, incentive projects for new approaches and interesting publications on the subject. It will also promote an “incubator of new projects”, to facilitate their funding from the various “Climate Funds”, in particular, so that, alongside conventional infrastructure projects, better knowledge of resources and impacts of climate change, capacity building, governance, monitoring, policy evaluation or the use of Nature-Based Solutions are better funded. It was enriched by the conclusions of the “Action Day for Water and Climate”, which was held on Friday 10 November 2017 as part of the official events of the COP23 in Bonn, and gathered all the stakeholders concerned. www.water-climate-alliances.org 4 www.water-climate-alliances.org Opening of the website of the “Global Alliances for Water and Climate” to support the implementation of the Paris Agreement in the water sector Stockholm World Water Week 27 August - 1 st September 2017 This year, the main topic of the Stockholm World Water Week was “Water and Waste: Reduce and Reuse”. During an event on circular economy for miti- gation of climate change, organized by the “#ClimateisWater (#CIW)” initiative, IOWater presented how the “INCOVER” project (see p. 34) is transforming wastewater into a source of high added-value bioproducts that contribute to the concept of a circular economy with multiple benefits. As Secretariat of INBO and the Global Alliances for Water and Climate (GAfWaC), IOWater intervened in other “climate” events and working meetings organized with its partners to present the results and prospects of the Alliances and their Incubation Platform and to prepare the program for the official Day for Action on Water and Climate of the COP23 on 10 November 2017 in Bonn. On the occasion of a side event on the PIANO (Europe-China Innovation Partnership) project, IOWater also promoted the French- Chinese cooperation project for the Hai River Basin Integrated Management (see p. 27), which is a model in identifying innovation needs and technical exchanges on very specific issues (pollution modeling, predictive modeling of cyanobacterial proliferation). IOWater held working meetings with its main partners to advance many issues such as the implementation of the “AfriAlliance” project (network of European and African organiza- tions involved in the search for innovative solutions for climate change adaptation in Africa, see p. 13), or the next World Water Foza in Brasilia, from 18 to 23 March 2018, and Dakar, March / April 2021. 4 A l l i a n c e s M o n d i a l e s p o u r l ’ E a u e t l e C l i m a t A M E C B a s s i n s E n t r e p r i s e s M é g a c i t é s D e s s a l e m e n t G l o b a l A l l i a n c e s f o r W a t e r a n d C l i m a t e G A f W a C B a s i n s B u s i n e s s M e g a c i t i e s D e s a l i n a t i o n A l i a n z a s M u n d i a l e s p a r a e l A g u a y e l C l i m a A M A C C u e n c a s E m p r e s a s M e g a c i u d a d e s D e s a l a c i ó n Opening ceremony