{"id":450280,"date":"2010-03-19T17:34:41","date_gmt":"2010-03-19T21:34:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.earthportal.org\/news\/?p=3216"},"modified":"2010-03-19T17:34:41","modified_gmt":"2010-03-19T21:34:41","slug":"water-evaporates-from-the-climate-change-negotiating-text","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/450280","title":{"rendered":"Water evaporates from the climate change negotiating text"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.panda.org\/wwf_news\/news\/?uNewsID=179601\" >World Wildlife Fund:<\/a> The Stockholm International Water Institute joined governments, NGOs and  United Nations agencies this week in calling on negotiators working to  develop a climate change deal in Copenhagen later this year to recognize  the critical role of water in climate change adaptation.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.panda.org\/wwf_news\/news\/?uNewsID=179601\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/assets.panda.org\/img\/vorauer_kuguruluy_262682.jpg\" align=\"left\" width=\"234\" height=\"133\" \/><\/a>Participants in a special Water Day event on Tuesday called for  recognition that water is the primary way that climate change will  impact people, society and ecosystems, due to predicted changes in its  quality and quantity.<\/p>\n<p>The way that water is managed in and between countries will be a  critical component for the success of any efforts to adapt to the  impacts of climate change, according to the Stockholm International  Water Institute. It will also be a vital consideration for many  mitigation activities, including hydropower, agriculture and forestry  projects.<\/p>\n<p>However, negotiators meeting this week in Barcelona for the last round  of UN climate talks before a big conference in Copenhagen next month are  working on negotiating texts that have no reference to water and its  management as tools for climate change adaptation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is imperative that negotiators recognize the crucial importance of  wetlands and freshwater as key factors in any climate adaptation plan,\u201d  said Denis Landenbergue, WWF International\u2019s Manager of Wetlands  Conservation. \u201cTo ignore the role of water is to cripple any climate  change adaptation plans.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Landenbergue said he encouraged negotiators to follow in the steps of  their colleagues from the Conference of the Parties to the Ramsar  Convention on Wetlands. Last year, they adopted a resolution promoting  the conservation and proper management of wetlands and their natural  resources \u2013 including water \u2013 as key requisites in national climate  change mitigation and adaptation plans.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.panda.org\/wwf_news\/news\/?uNewsID=179601\" >Read more&gt;&gt; <\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"akst_link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.earthportal.org\/news\/?p=3216&amp;akst_action=share-this\"  title=\"E-mail this, post to del.icio.us, etc.\" id=\"akst_link_3216\" class=\"akst_share_link\" rel=\"nofollow\">Share This<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>World Wildlife Fund: The Stockholm International Water Institute joined governments, NGOs and United Nations agencies this week in calling on negotiators working to develop a climate change deal in Copenhagen later this year to recognize the critical role of water in climate change adaptation. Participants in a special Water Day event on Tuesday called for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-450280","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/450280","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=450280"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/450280\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=450280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=450280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=450280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}