Key areas to be explored include: How does investment in energy infrastructure affect other parts of the nexus? In what way can energy investments and ways of operating infrastructure provide multiple benefits across the nexus? How can benefits be shared? How can water savings in energy be used beneficially in water supply and food production? How can different actors cooperate to that end?
Time & Room
Sunday 14:00-17:30
Room K11
Water, energy and land systems are inter-connected and have become increasingly complex and dependent on one another. Understanding the drivers behind these interlinkages is important when developing and implementing infrastructure so it improves benefits to people and nature while securing sustainable economic and industrial development. At the same time, the right policies, incentives and co-operation need to be in place, which is further complicated when the development is in shared river basins.
Learning and critical thinking from a series of recent nexus dialogue workshops in Africa, Latin America and Asia, as well as a set of assessments of the water-food-energy-ecosystems in transboundary river basins will provide a basis for discussion, along with perspectives from the energy, water and food sectors.
Programme
14:00
Welcome and Opening Remarks
Chair: Dr. Ger Bergkamp, IWA
Enabling Environment for Investing in the Energy Sector: Understanding Benefits and Trade-offs
14:05
Keynote
H.E. Ambassador Dr. Lisa Emilia Svensson, Sweden's Ambassador for Oceans, Seas, and Fresh Water
14:20
Setting the Scene: Focus on Energy Perspective — What are the Benefits and Trade-Offs across the Nexus?
Dr. James Dalton, IUCN and Ms. Katharine Cross, IWA
14:30
A USA Perspective on Water-Energy Nexus: Success and Failures from Practitioners
Dr. Reagan Waskom, Colorado State University, USA
14:40Transboundary Implications of Energy Infrastructure on Water Resources: Considerations and Approaches
Dr. Annukka Lipponen, UNECE
14:50
Q&A
15:00
Roundtable Discussion
Ms. Katharine Cross, IWA
-How Does Investment in (Energy) Infrastructure Affect Different Parts of the Nexus?
-In What Way Can Energy Investments and Ways of Operating Infrastructure Provide Multiple Benefits across the Nexus?
-How Can Benefits Be Shared?
-How Can Water Savings in Energy Be Used Beneficially in Water Supply and Food Production?
-How Can Different Actors Cooperate to That End?
Facilitator: Mr. Jonathan Grant, WaterTap
15:30
Coffee Break
Investment in Nexus Infrastructure and the Impacts on Water, Energy and Food Security
Chair: Ms. Ulrike Pokorski, GIZ
16:00
Serre-Ponçon (France) and Nam Theun 2 (Lao PDR) Hydro Schemes:
2 Locations, 2 Different Time Periods but the Same Positive Impacts from a "Water for Energy" Infrastructure
Mr. Laurent Bellet, EDF
16:15
Identifying a Pipeline of Natural Infrastructure Investment and How Energy Priorities and Economics Shape Financing of These Investments
Mr. Todd Gartner, WRI
16:25
Q&A
16:30
Investment Aspects for Energy Efficiency in Water Infrastructure — Energy Contracting Model
Mr. Malek Rawashdeh, Water Authority of Jordan (WAJ)
16:40
Renewable Energy Investments in the Context of the Water-Energy-Food Nexus
Mr. Jordan Macknick, US Department of Energy - National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL)
16:50
Q&A
17:00
Closing Panel Discussion
Does investment in energy infrastructure bring benefits for the food/agricultural/land sectors and improve water management?
The panel will discuss issues raised through the session from individual presentations and from the audience.
Chair: Her Excellency Ambassador Dr. Lisa Emilia Svensson - Sweden's Ambassador for Oceans, Seas, and Fresh Water
-Mr. Jordan Macknick, DOE National Lab for Renewable Energy
-Mr. Laurent Bellet, EDF
-Mr. Todd Gartner, WRI
-Mr. Malek Rawashdeh, Water Authority of Jordan (WAJ)
-Dr. Annukka Lipponen, UNECE
-Dr. Reagan Waskom , Colorado State University
17:30
Close of Seminar
Convenor
-International Union for Conservation of Nature and International Water Association
Co-convenors
-Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit
-Electricité de France
-United Nations Economic Commission for Europe
-United States Department of State and World Resources Institute
