NoWNET organizes a webinar in the WWWeek At Home
on 27th August 10am CET (17:00 Japan time)!

WWWeek At Home is a new series of virtual sessions that lets anyone tap into the knowledge of some of the greatest water and climate experts. It was born as the alternative area of the regular World Water Week, which had to be cancelled due to COVID-19 and as an umbrella under which organizations can host virtual adaptations of their World Water Week-approved sessions. The programme covers no less than 120 sessions on a broad range of topics between 24th – 28th August 2020. All sessions are open to anyone, free of charge.

▼Please visit the following website for details of the WWWeek At Home▼
https://www.siwi.org/latest/join-us-for-www-at-home/

▼Flyer is available here▼
https://www.waterforum.jp/wp/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/NoWNET-Flyer_WWW-at-Home.pdf

Japan Water Forum, Secretariat of NoWNET, will organize a webinar entitled “Co-Benefits of Implementing NBS for Water Resources and Flood Risk Management” with NoWNET members on 27th August 2020 10 am CET (17:00 Japan time).

Objective
This session will share practices and lessons learned from the NoWNET members’ countries regarding Nature-based Solution (NBS) to address water management, flood risk management, and nature conservation in the context of climate change. It includes ways to:
– integrate green infrastructure aspects into existing water and river basin management,
– identify and manage interactions between water, energy, land use, and ecosystem,
– ensure multi-stakeholders’ approaches and their support
– evaluate co-benefits and trade-off methods to assist decision-making, and
– overcome barriers related to the institutional frameworks.

 

 Program

10:00 – 10:02	Introduction of the NoWNET and this session
10:02 – 10:27	Cases from NoWNET member countries – Netherlands: Dr. Elisabeth Ruijgrok, Economist, Witteveen+Bos – Sweden: Dr. Anna Tengberg, Programme Manager, Swedish Water House, adjunct professor at Lund University Centre for Sustainability Studies – Danish: Mr. Jesper Goodley Dannisøe, Director, Danish Water Forum – Japan: Prof. Takashi Asaeda, Emeritus Professor, Saitama University, Japan, Research Supervisor (Disaster Prevention and Mitigation), Science and Technology Research Partnership for Sustainable Development, Japan Science and Technology Agency – Republic of Korea Prof. Lee-Hyung Kim, Civil and Environment Engineering Dept. Kongiu National University
10:27 – 10:42	Panel Discussion & Interaction with the audience – Panelist: Above presenters – Moderator of panel discussion: Mr. Ravi Narayanan
10:42- 10:45	Summary and Wrap up

 

▼Please visit the following website for more detail and the updated information▼
https://www.worldwaterweek.org/event/9170-co-benefits-of-implementing-nbs-for-climate-related-water-and-flood-management

▼Please register in advance▼
https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_rxweSDjTSmux5pHBgvEm1A

▼Report of the session will be posted on NoWNET website▼
https://www.waterforum.jp/en/what_we_do/transmitting_japanese/nownet

NoWNET NoWNET is a network of country level water partnerships in Europe, Japan and the Republic of Korea for exchanging experiences and good practices to address water challenges, interacting with multi-stakeholders. It was initiated by the World Water Council (WWC), Global Water Partnership (WWC), and the Steering Committee of the 3rd World Water Forum held in Japan in 2003. NoWNET members (11 organizations): – –   GWP –   WWC  –   Danish Water Forum (DWF) –   Finnish Water Forum (FWF) –   French Water Partnership (FWP) –   Japan Water Forum (JWF) –   Korea Water Forum (KWF) –   Netherlands Water Partnership (NWP) –   Portuguese Water Partnership (PWP) –   Swedish Water House (SWH) –   Swiss Water Partnership (SWP). JWF has maintained a role as the secretariat ever since its launch. Contact: nownet [at] waterforum.jp

 

(Reported by Yumiko Asayama, Manager)