22 April is Earth Day. Celebrated since 1970, Earth Day has evolved into one of the largest civic events on Earth, activating billions of people across 192 countries to safeguard our planet and fight for a brighter future. The 2024 theme, Planet vs. Plastics, revolves around the idea of building a plastic-free planet for generations to come.
May 10 and 12, 2024, GWP China Professional Committee of River Basin Carbon Neutrality was set up by GWP China and Beijing Normal University, in Beijing, China.
Between April and October 2023, UN Member States will take stock and report their progress on implementing the integrated water resources management (IWRM) target under the SDGs. GWP, through the SDG 6 IWRM Support Programme, will assist countries in facilitating multi-stakeholder consultations to assess and report on their progress on SDG indicator 6.5.1.
At the 3rd and final meeting of the Steering Committee for Nexus activities in the Drina River basin, the importance of enhancing cross-sectoral and transboundary coordination in the basin was stressed.
The Togolese capital, Lomé, hosted from 25 to 27 January 2023 the regional training workshop on impact-based forecasting, procedures for the elaboration of warning bulletins and the myDewetra-VOLTALARM Early Warning System (EWS) in the Volta basin.
On April 02 and 03, 2024, in the meeting room of the Centre d'Écoute des Jeunes de Bama in Burkina Faso, the local workshop on tools, strategies and other provisions for integrated flood and drought risk management to build resilience in the Volta Basin in Burkina Faso took place.
The Lake Chad Basin Commission and GWP-Central Africa, with the support of the World Metrological Organization, organized the second regional stakeholder consultation for the "Integrated Water Resources Management and Early Warning System for Climate Change Resilience in the Lake Chad Basin" project. The regional workshop was held in N’Djamena, Chad, on March 29th–31st, 2023.
The implementation of the TonFuturTonClimat funded by the Quebec Government, GWP, the Swiss cooperation and Agence de l’Eau Artois Picardie is impacting the social organization of youth in the municipality of Tanguieta, Northern Benin.
