Budapest Water Summit // High-Level Water-Energy-Food Nexus Evening Panel, Budapest/Hungary
A particularly important emerging issue related to water is the water/energy/food nexus. The objective of the panel session is to build on the outcome of the relevant conference, held in 16-18 November, 2011, in Bonn, Germany, in order to take stock and to move the agenda forward with a view to define cross-cutting SDGs.
Plenary, 1830-2000hrs
-Moderator: Mr Fritz Holzwarth, Deputy Director-General of the Federal Ministry for the Environment, Germany -Rapporteur: Mr Holger Hoff, Senior Research Fellow, Stockholm Environment Institute
Panel members:
-H.E. Mr Mohammed Ibrahim Al-Saud, Deputy Minister for Water Affairs, Ministry of Water and Electricity, Saudi Arabia -H.E. Mr Paul Oquist Kelley, Minister-Secretary for Public Policies of the Presidency, Nicaragua -Mr Alexander Verbeek, Strategic Policy Advisor Global Issues, Climate, Energy, Environment and Water Department, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, The Netherlands -Mr Mohamed Ait-Kadi, Chair of the TEC, Global Water Partnership -Mr Roberto Lenton, Director of the Robert B. Daugherty Water for Food Institute, University of Nebraska, USA -Mr Avinash Tyagi, Secretary General of ICID -Mr Reza Ardakanian, Director, United Nations University — Institute for Integrated Management of Material Fluxes and of Resources (UNU-FLORES) -Mr Aaron Salzberg, Special Coordinator for Water Resources, US Department of State -Mr Richard Lawford, Senior Scientist, Morgan State University, USA