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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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Water Action Agenda for the 2023 UN Water Conference
Australia is gearing up to engage in the upcoming UN 2023 Water Conference. To this end we’d like to alert AWP Partners that they may submit voluntary…
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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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People managing the invisible: participatory groundwater monitoring in India
Mr Hari Ram Gadri has been a farmer in a small village called Dharta in Rajasthan, India, for four decades. His livelihood and his family’s wellbeing depend on his…
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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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Blog: Reflections on climate action – power through collaboration
An opinion piece by Lucía Gamarra Let’s get real, people! At the Climate Action Network Australia (CANA) conference in June 2022 environmental and climate-change action-oriented organisations gathered in Ngunnawal…
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Why we need to talk about climate when we talk about water
Climate change is threatening water security as we experience changes in the water cycle, including floods and droughts. At the same time, water systems such as permafrost and wetlands…
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