Experts: Water must be included in climate talks
The participants of the 2009 World Water Week in Stockholm unanimously said that water must be included in the climate negotiations in Copenhagen this December.
At various sessions throughout the week 16-22 August, a number of organizations and officials have articulated the reasons why water needs to be an integral part of the negotiation process on climate change and adaptation.
Those reasons became key points of the "Stockholm Statement" which the assembled participants of the 2009 World Water Week unanimously supported at the final plenary session.
"Especially with water - which is how most people will feel the impacts of climate change - we have to make climate change adaptation work. All WWF's experience says that adaptation works best when it is ecosystem based," said Dr. John Matthews, WWF Head of Freshwater Adaptation.
Excerpt from: http://www.energy-enviro.fi/index.php?PAGE=2763
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