Water - the Blue Gold for our future: Europe's leaders unite to fight water scarcity and depletion
The Ministry of Environment and Spatial Planning of the Republic of Slovenia
welcomes the water stewardship and accompanying water awareness programme
(Aquawareness) initiated by the European Water Partnership (EWP). These
programmes promote principles of advanced sustainable water management,
following the Commission’s Communication on water scarcity and
droughts.
Engaging global actors in strategic partnerships, water stewardship aims to
become the most widely adopted sustainable water instrument crossing public,
private and sectoral barriers. It will establish a set of common values
shared by stakeholders including consumers, industry, agriculture,
financiers, cities and government, to modernize and achieve profound changes
in behaviour and practices.
Fully supporting this action, the Ministry of Environment and Spatial
Planning of the Republic of Slovenia is participating in the high level
debate organised by the European Water Partnership in cooperation with the
European Parliament in February 2008 and beyond. The Ministry of Environment
and Spatial Planning of the Republic of Slovenia encourages all stakeholders
particularly the private sector to actively engage in the programme.
The principles of water stewardship recognize that the challenges of
sustainability require voluntary schemes at a global level, in addition to
existing legal frameworks.
The European Parliament represented by the rapporteur Dr. Richard Seeber
wishes to react to the communication of the European Commission with a broad
based initiative report which looks at the key strategic challenges. For
this purpose the European Parliament started a cooperation with the European
Water Partnership and organizes a first high level debate which will discuss
the direction of the initiative report. This high level debate will take
place on Wednesday, 13th February 2008 starting at 5pm in the European
Parliament, rue Wiertz 60, B-1047 Brussels, Belgium.
The Global Nature Fund has been invited by the European Water Partnership to
participate in the preparation and implementation of the water awareness
programme (Aguawareness) and Water Stewardship Programmes. GNF – leader of
the international Living Lakes network – is pleased to contribute its
expertise in freshwater protection and ecosystem conservation to these
programmes.
Contact information |
For the Slovene Presidency: Mrs. Darija Dolenc Head of Public Relations Service / For EWP: Ms. Agnes Biesiekierska, Project Manager / For Global Nature Fund: Mrs Marion Hammerl, President
(email: darija.dolenc@gov.si ; a.biesiekierska@ewp.eu ; info@globalnature.org) Phone: +386 1 478 7493, Fax: +386 1 478 7415 / +32 2 735 06 81, Fax: +32 2 735 06 82/ +49 7732 9995 45, Fax: +49 7732 9995 88 |
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News type | Inbrief |
File link |
http://www.globalnature.org/docs/02_vorlage.asp?id=19262&domid=1011&sp=E&addlastid=&m1=11089&m2=11093&m3=19262&newsid=1406&newsrefid=11093&row=0 |
Source of information | Global Nature Fund |
Keyword(s) | water scarcity |
Subject(s) | NATURAL MEDIUM , POLICY-WATER POLICY AND WATER MANAGEMENT , RISKS AND CLIMATOLOGY |
Relation | http://www.semide.net/topics/WaterScarcity |
Geographical coverage | EU, Slovenia |
News date | 14/02/2008 |
Working language(s) | ENGLISH |