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Elevating First Nations voices in approaches to climate resilient water management
As the UN Climate Change Conference COP27 gets underway in Egypt, Indigenous Peoples in Australia are grappling climate impacts. Sonia Cooper, a Yorta Yorta woman raised by her Nan on…
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Opinion: Water for 1.5 — the climate benefits of good water management
By Tony Slatyer, Water Policy Group Limiting global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius over pre-industrial levels, as agreed to be pursued under the Paris Agreement, requires everyone to act much…
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Urban greening and cooling in response to increasing surface temperatures and water scarcity
The 2021 Report of the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC AR6) found that climate hazards are posing an increased risk to the degradation of ecosystems,…
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Assessing the Climate Change Readiness of Pacific Island Water and Sanitation Utilities
Pacific Island countries have significant gaps in access to water and sanitation. Data collected by the WHO/UNICEF Joint Monitoring Program in 2017 shows that access to safely managed or…
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Reducing disaster risk in the Pacific
A partnership between the Pacific Community (SPC) and the Australian Water Partnership (AWP) is working towards a climate-resilient Pacific by increasing surface water hydrology capacity with a focus on…
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Scaling-up nature-based solutions for climate-resilient cities
Our future is urban. Cities fuel our economies, nurture innovation and have tremendous capacity to improve quality of life. More than half of the world’s population now live in…
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Partnerships for recovery (and collaboration on climate action!)
By Lucía Gamarra The Australian Water Partnership has focused, since its establishment in 2015, on contributing to enhancing sustainable water management, which is closely aligned with the
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$232 million Mekong-Australia Partnership launched
On 8 November 2021, the Cambodian component of the Mekong-Australia Partnership (MAP) was launched following a bilateral meeting between Cambodian Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, His Excellency…
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The power of story-telling for water and climate
By Bronwyn Powell and Sarah Ransom Looking back on COP26, our impression after involvement in the first-ever Water Pavilion is of a tide of information and activity,…
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The climate crisis is a water crisis and therefore, a food crisis
By Dr Krista Singleton-Cambage (WWF-Australia) and Michael Wilson (Australian Water Partnership – AWP) On 31 October, the 26th Conference of the Parties to the United Nations…
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