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Australia’s commitments to the UN 2023 Water Action Agenda
Australia has joined countries around the world in attending the United Nations (UN) 2023 Water Conference in New York this week. As the first UN water conference in almost…
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Join us online for the 2023 AWP Partners Workshop
With a theme of ‘Partnering for resilience through water and climate action’, the 2023 AWP Partners Workshop provides an opportunity to share knowledge and experience and look…
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Water warnings – Mitigating the effects of flash flooding in Pacific Island communities
When we think about the impacts of climate change on Pacific Island countries, sea level rise often springs to mind. And while this is a very real phenomenon receiving…
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Climate risk and water security – how can development partnerships support local responses?
Across Australia and the Indo-Pacific, climate change impacts are being experienced through the…
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A roadmap for transforming cities
Australia’s Urban WaterGuide provides a blueprint for future-proofing cities. Tony Wong, Jamie Ewert, and Katharine Cross show how its philosophy of integrated water management has significance for urban environments across the world. The…
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Watering the climate convention
Reflections from COP27 and Cairo Water Week by Lucía…
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The effects of climate change on our waterways and land
An opinion piece by Adina Brown. As a First Nations person, I felt encouraged to hear an Acknowledgement of Country to kick off AWP’s second ‘Sharing Water & Climate Stories’…
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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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