The UNU Institute for the Advanced Study of Sustainability (UNU-IAS), in collaboration with the UNU Institute for Integrated Management of Material Fluxes and of Resources (UNU-FLORES) and the Global Environment Outreach Centre (GEOC), will organize a webinar in observance of World Water Day (WWD) 2021 on Monday, 22 March 2021 from 21:00 – 22:45 JST
In line with the WWD 2021 theme ‘Valuing Water‘, the webinar will include discussions by experts to analyse different roles and values that water offers as well as how these values can be synthesized to achieve Sustainable Development Goal 6: Clean Water and Sanitation.
This event will be held in both English and Japanese. Simultaneous interpretation will be provided.
Programme
21:00 Opening & Announcements – Emi Yoshinaga (Programme Coordinator, UNU-IAS)
21:05 Welcoming remarks – Shinobu Yume Yamaguchi (Director, UNU-IAS)
21:10 Keynote speech ‘Water Availability, Value of Water, and SDG’ – Taikan Oki (Senior Vice-Rector, United Nations University)
21:30 Presentation: ‘Value of Water for the Economy’ – Geetha Mohan (Research Fellow, UNU-IAS)
21:45 Presentation: ‘Water Environment and Value of Water’ – Saroj Chapagain (Research Fellow, UNU-IAS)
22:00 Panel discussion / Q&A: ‘How do we find synergies between different value of water to achieve SDG6?’
- Moderator: Kensuke Fukushi (Academic Programme Officer, UNU-IAS)
- Thomas Elmqvist (Professor, Stockholm Resilience Centre, Stockholm University)
- Binaya Kumar Mishra (Professor, School of Engineering, Pokhara University in Nepal)
- Serena Caucci (Associate Programme Officer, UNU-FLORES)
- Mahesti Okitasari (Research Associate, UNU-IAS)
22:30 UN World Water Development Report 2021 on ‘Valuing Water’ – Giulia Roder (Research Consultant, UNU-IAS)
22:40 Closing remarks – Kensuke Fukushi (Academic Programme Officer, UNU-IAS)
Registration
For updates on this event, visit the UNU-IAS website.
