Food-Energy-Water-CO2 Nexus // Plant-Based Burger Could Save Emissions Equal to 2 Million Cars
By Richard Waite, Daniel Vennard and Gerard Pozzi. Americans eat approximately 10 billion burgers each year. Replacing 30 percent of the beef in…
Nexus in the MENA Region // Assessment of the Water-Energy Nexus in the Municipal Water Sector in Eastern Province, Saudi Arabia
By Homoud Al-Mutrafi, Waleed Al-Zubari, Alaa El-Sadek and Ibrahim Abdel Gelil. This paper performs an assessment of the water-energy nexus in the…
Strengthening Climate Resilience in Urban Amazonia // Experiences from Tarapoto and the Cumbaza Watershed in San Martín, Peru
This brief presents a Water-Energy-Food (WEF) nexus case study of the Cumbaza River watershed in San Martin, Peru. The dynamic socio-ecological…
Potential Applications and Lessons Learned from Africa // Outcomes from the Water-Energy-Food Security Nexus Session at the 8th World Water Forum in Brazil
By Kidanemarian Jembere and Isabel Pasternack. Africa’s sustainable development largely depends on goods and services derived from its environment…
Second Nexus Executive Steering Committee Meeting // Supporting Regions, Countries and Cities
By Isabel Pasternack, Susanne Schmeier and Tina Schmiers. The second Executive Steering Committee Meeting of the Nexus Regional Dialogues Programme…
The Nexus Perspective // For the Integrated Realisation of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)
By Hannah Janetschek, Ines Dombrowsky. Bonn / Chapel Hill, 16 April 2018. Multiple stakeholders representing governments, intergovernmental…
Towards a Relational Understanding of the Water-Energy-Food Nexus // Analysis of Embeddedness and Governance in the Upper Blue Nile Region of Ethiopia
By Christian Stein, Claudia Pahl-Wostl, Jennie Barron. Given the need for transformative changes towards more sustainable, integrated management of…
Integrating Nexus Research // Nexus Project Cluster
The Nexus Project Cluster” is an initiative that aims to enhance communication, dissemination, and the impact of research and initiatives on the…
Circle of Blue // America’s Oil Boom Can Not Happen Without Groundwater
By Keith Schneider. Unleashing billions of barrels of oil locked in beds of shale 10,000 feet deep is only possible if the oil industry — and state…
Membrane Distillation at the Water-Energy Nexus // Limits, Opportunities, and Challenges
By Akshay Deshmukh, Chanhee Boo, Vasiliki Karanikola, et al. Energy-efficient desalination and water treatment technologies play a critical role in…
Getting to Grips with the Water-Energy-Food Nexus?
By Alexandra Howe. Global demand for food, energy and water is increasing and these resources cannot be considered in isolation. Chemical engineers…
Water-Energy Nexus // Hong Kong’s Futuristic Waste-to-Energy Facility
By Robert C. Brears. Each day Hong Kong produces nearly 3 million cubic meters of sewage which equates to over 1,200 tons of sludge. Rather than…
Financing for Development // Progress and Prospects 2018
Report of the Inter-agency Task Force on Financing Development. The 2018 report of the Inter-agency Task Force on Financing for Development finds…
Tools // Nexus Tools Platform: An Interactive Platform for Inter-model Comparison of Existing Modelling Tools
By UNU-FLORES. No single modelling tool is available or conceivable that covers all processes, interactions and drivers in the Water-Soil-Waste…
Nexus and Security // Critical Thinking on the New Security Convergence in Energy, Food, Climate and Water
By Shilpi Srivastava and Lyla Mehta. Not Another Nexus? In recent years, the notion of the nexus has gained immense traction in the domain of natural…