7ème Atelier sur l'adaptation aux changements climatiques dans les bassins transfrontières / 7th Workshop on adaptation to Climate Change in Transboundary Basins
The workshop aims to analyse ecosystem-based adaptation (EbA) in water resource management, by sharing experiences from basins around the world. It will review ecosystem-based approaches and measures to adapt to climate change taken in transboundary basins and at national level, identify good practices and lessons learned and formulate some conclusions for further activities.
More specifically, the workshop has the following objectives and will cover the following issues:
- analyse the value, limits and conditions for ecosystem-based adaptation;
- odefinition of EbA and its place in the concept nature-based solutions;
- different types of EbA measures: reforestation, wetland and river restoration,environmental flow, groundwater recharge;
- governance and current policy and legal basis at global, regional and national levels;
- discuss how EbA can particularly help in transboundary basins, as a low or no regret measure;
- when and where it can be used, limits and conditions for its application;
- its value as part of a broader mix of measures for adaptation and DRR;
- value of EbA for local communities which depend on ecosystem services;
- integration of EbA into transboundary and national strategies and plans on adaptation andDRR and vice versa;oEbA in the context of the water- food-energy-ecosystems nexus;
- provide the participants with initial tools for EbA through interactive exercises, case studies andpotentially a field visit:
- examples from transboundary basins and individual countries;
- methods and techniques for EbA;
- share experience on financing opportunities for ecosystem-based adaptation in transboundarybasins;
- identify priorities for possible future work on the topic of ecosystem-based adaptation under theWater Convention
Papers
Opening
Ecosystem-based Adaptation inTransboundary Basins - Olga Algayerova
La Declaracion de la Década de las Naciones Unidas para la Restauración de los Ecosistemas 2021-2030 - Antonio Canas Calderon
Session 1: Introduction of ecosystem-based adaptation, its measures and value for adapting to climate change and reducing disaster risk
Ecosystem-based adaptation in the EU adaptation policy - Elena Visnar Malinovska
Free Flowing Rivers: an ecosystem-based adaptation measure toward resilient deltas - Marc Goichot
Ecosystem-based Adaptation for River Resilience. A perspective on Southeast Queensland, Australia - Carla Littlejohn
Guadalquivir: a basin in the frontier of changes - Víctor Juan Cifuentes Sanchez
Session 2: Governance and sustainability of ecosystem-based adaptation in transboundary basins
Enhancing the role of nature for adaptation: governance dimensions - Lorena Martínez Hernández
The interest of Natural Water Retention Measures (NWRM) for ecosystem-based adaptation - Edouard BOINET
The concept of free-flowing rivers and its application within the Living Danube Partnership - Eva Hernandez
Strengthening transboundary cooperation in the Sixaola basin through ecosystem-base dadaptation activities implemented on the ground - Juan Carlos Barrantes
Adaptation écosystémique dans lse bassins transfrontières : expérience du Bassin du Niger - Ibrahima Sory Camara
Projet d’Appui à la Restauration des Ecosystèmes de la tête de bassin de la Mékrou (affluent du fleuve Niger) - Benoit Koukponou
Session 3: Case-studies, tools and methods in ecosystem-based adaptation
Session 4: Financing opportunities for ecosystem-based adaptation in transboundary basins
Integrating green and gray infrastructure–and its financing - Greg Browder
Introduction to bankable projects for ecosystem-based adaptation - Dean Muruven
Valuing and financing forests for water - Alessandro Leonardi
Nature insurance value: assessment and demonstration (NAIAD) - Elena Lopez-Gunn
Resilient green finance with climate bonds - Alex Mauroner
WISE-UP to Climate – Natural Infrastructure Solutions for Climate Change Adaptation