Just Add Water: Solutions for the 2020 NDCs –and beyond

COP25 MPGCA Water Action Event6 December 2019

WELCOME

Gonzalo MuñozUNFCCC High-Level Climate Champion

Dr. Abdelkader AmaraMinister of Equipment, Transport, Logistics and Water of the Kingdom of Morocco, INBO World President 2019-2022

Henk OvinkSpecial Envoy for International Water Affairs Kingdom of the Netherlands

SESSION 1Urban Resilience Across the Green-Grey Spectrum

Monika Weber-FahrExecutive DirectorGlobal Water Partnership

Manuel CermerónCEO, Suez SpainBusiness Alliance for Water and Climate (BAfWaC)

Manuel Menendez PrietoDirector General of WaterMinistry for Ecological Transition, Spain

GUÍAS DE ADAPTACIÓN AL RIESGO DE INUNDACIÓN

OBJETIVOS Identificar elementos que pueden verse afectados por inundaciones

Indicar medidas para la adaptación e incremento de resiliencia

T=10 peligrosidad muy altaT=100 peligrosidad mediaT=500 peligrosidad baja

PILOTO: HOSPITAL CUENCA

ALTERNATIVAS Beneficio / Coste Reducción del riesgo

Beneficio/coste de la alternativa 1 11,61 47%

Beneficio/coste de la alternativa 2 16,00 47%

PILOTO: GANADERÍA (NUEZ DE EBRO)

Lámina de inundación de la avenida de 2015 y zonas de entrada de agua

Bajas de animales, daños en naves por entrada de lodos y parada de actividad durante dos meses

NUEZ DE EBRO

PRESA DE PINA

VILLAFRANCA DE EBRO

CASA DE GANADEROS

Medidas propuestas

Protocolos de emergencia

Revisión de seguros

Compuertas anti inundación en naves

Impermeabilización de muros

Reubicación elementos sensibles

Alternativas

22 compuertas en portones + impermeabilización muros + elevación transformador

102.000 €

Tapiado 8 portones + ampliación portones centrales + 14 compuertas en portones +

impermeabilización muros + elevación transformador

74.000 €

Jennifer SaraGlobal Director, Water Global PracticeWorld Bank

JENNIFER SARA

GLOBAL DIRECTOR FOR WATER

WORLD BANK

Urban Resilience Across the Green-Gray Spectrum

Madrid: COP25

Recent World Bank Publications

GREEN GRAY IS POTENTIALLY A TRIPLE WIN

Environment EconomySocial

Climate Resilience

Joakim GiacomoniDirector of International Affairs and Public Relations, SIAAP Representative of the Megacities Alliance for Water and Climate (MAWAC)

Arghya Sinha RoySenior Disaster Risk Management SpecialistAsian Development Bank

Image Source: ESA

Urban Resilience Across Grey-Green Spectrum:Experiences of Asian Development Bank

Just Add Water: Solutions for the 2020 NDCs and beyondCOP25December 2019, Madrid

Arghya Sinha Roy, Senior Climate Change Specialist, ADB

Nature-based solutions in ADB’s urban and climate priorities

• ADB Strategy 2030 identifies “climate resilience” and “livable cities” as 2 of its 7 operational priorities.

• Nature-based approaches are integral to strengthening resilience; publishing NBS practitioner’s guide in January 2020.

• Water sensitive urban planning and design - a growing feature in ADB’s urban investment projects.

Image Source: ADB

• Robust understanding of current and future risks to advance robust yet flexible solutions for resilience.

• Inclusive interventions across scale – household, community, local government, and basin-wide.

• Integrated approaches with linkage to different aspects of resilience - spatial, physical, social, and financial.

• Pilots to demonstrate benefits and build evidence.

Approach for nature-based solutions for urban resilience

Image Source: ADB

Scaling up of nature-based solutions in support of urban resilience

In January 2020, ADB will publish a practitioner’s guide to NBS, with a special focus on water, cities, and transport

Move upstream - Gather political support to prioritize nature-based solutions in wider urban development and climate change policies and plans; city vision; innovative financing models; and incentives, including fiscal incentives for resilient development.

Revisit project appraisal tools to integrate nature-based solutions especially in economic and financial analysis.

Build capacity for downstream implementation through integration of nature-based solutions in design standards, asset management systems, procurement processes, and community awareness processes.

Image Source: ADB

SESSION 2Food and forestry value chains: connecting projects from source to sea

Eric TardieuDeputy Secretary GeneralGlobal Alliances for Water and Climate (GAfWaC)

Abderahim Birémé Hamid Executive Secretary Niger river Basin Authority (NBA)

Mr. Eugenio Barrios Deputy Director General National Commission for Water (CONAGUA), Mexico

Jean LapègueAction Against Hunger (ACF-France) World Water Council Governor

Dr. Jean Lapegue

Action against Hunger

French Water Partnership

Global WASH Cluster

Global Climate Action – WWC

CLIMATE CHANGE IMPACTS ON HUMANITARIAN RESPONSE: MOZAMBIQUE IDAI 03/2019

Cyclone Idai (14/03/2019) key figures Mozambique

Humanitarian impact

• 1007 people died

• 84,000 people displaced

• 1.85 million in need (food, water, shelter)

• 31,100 cases of malaria reported

• 282 cases cholera registered

Impact on Development

• 1.7 Million people on Food insecurity (1 on 15)

• At least 2 Billion USDs in recovery costs

• 223,947 houses destroyed

• 168,000 ha agricultural land destroyed

• Beira town destroyed at 90%

Humanitarian Response Mozambique & Climate Change Challenges

Humanitarian assistance- 760,000 children <5 screened for Acute undernutrition- 2,420 SAM treated- 434,899 children vaccinated against cholera- 1,000,000 people received emergency water- 1,85 million people in need (HRP 2019) - 116 transit camps- 1,435,000 people assisted on WASH- 389 million USDs Humanitarian Response Plan 2018

Increased impact on Humanitarian actors and donors:- Humanitarian fatigue (e.g. IDAI was the 11th depression of 2018-2019) and 813 extreme climatic events

were registered in 2018- Size of the intervention: immense areas flooded (21 districts on 69)- Volume 1.85 million (note: in 2018, 90 million people received humanitarian assistance) - Regional crisis specificity (IDAI touched simultaneously Mozambique, Malawi & Zimbabwe= 2.2 Million

people in need in total)- Donors fatigues, especially on recovery (funding gap 2019 = 87% on 102 million USDs)- Access constraints (a lot of the Mozambique intervention was done by air)- Multiple actors to coordinate: WASH (32), Health, Nutrition, Education and Protection

How Climate change impacts Humanitarian action?Increased impact on populations• Access to food (crops, markets, infrastructures, stocks) drought an floods

• Water borne diseases (diarrhea, cholera, ARI) lack or excessive water

• Vector borne diseases (malaria, dengue) pathogen endemicity, excess of water

• Reduced access to clean water and to health structures

• Displacement of population (150 million climatic migrants expected 2050 / 70 million FDP)

• Psychological distress due to repetitive shocks

• Poverty spiral

Solutions for Humanitarian Response:

• Improve coordination mechanisms (Clusters)

• Secure Humanitarian funding (currently WASH is 4.5% of HFA)

• Lower humanitarian costs by preparedness

• Develop early warning systems

• Promote Rapid Response Mechanisms at global (FST) and national levels (RRM)

• Increase CVA assistance

• Increase protection projects, especially on migrants

• Improve our humanitarian carbon foot-print (mitigation) by localization and DRM

Nathanial MatthewsPrograms DirectorGlobal Resilience PartnershipOcean Risk and Resilience Action Alliance (ORRAA)

Mark SmithDeputy DirectorInternational Water Management Institute (IWMI)

Closing Segment: Looking ahead to the post-2020 era. What is needed to scale

up action now?

Josefina Maestu UribeSenior Water Advisor, Ministry of Ecological TransitionSpain

Trevor ThompsonMinistry of AgricultureGranada

Birgitta Liss LymerDirector, Water Resources Stockholm International Water Institute (SIWI)

Thank you!