Federal Foreign Office // Improving conflict management where resources are at stake
Important resources such as water, land, energy and minerals are becoming ever scarcer. This is due to population growth and rapid economic…
Key Messages // Water: The Bloodstream of the Green Economy
Key messages to the 2012 Rio+20 Summit from the Stockholm International Water Institute (SIWI)
Exploring the Population/Water Resources Nexus in the Developing World
This article explores the population/water resources nexus by using empirical examples from Africa in order to isolate some of the strategically…
Aspen Ideas Festival (AIF) // Shell brings the NEXUS to the ASPEN IDEAS FESTIVAL (AIF)
"There is a growing awareness of the Energy-Water-Food Nexus, but the tendency is to consider each issue in isolation. A holistic approach to…
Lessons Learnt // Sharing the water, sharing the benefits: Lessons from six large dams in West Africa
West African countries are planning to construct new large dams in order to meet their energy and water needs and to promote food security against an…
Video // Shell Company Video on the Water-Energy-Food Nexus
There is a growing awareness of the Energy-Water-Food Nexus, but the tendency is to consider each issue in isolation. A holistic approach to…
Opening Speech // Germany's Foreign Office Secretary of State Emily Haber opens the Presentation of the Report "The Global Resource Nexus: The Struggles for Land, Energy, Food, Water, and Minerals"
"The report is indeed timely and very pertinent to our efforts in finding answers to some of the great questions of our time: how do we handle…
In Preparation of Rio+20 // Rio+20 Dialogues: "Vote for the Future You Want"
The Rio Dialogues have set up a website to vote which challenges are most urgent and which solution approaches are most promising.
IANS India // Bengal nod to extract groundwater divides experts
West Bengal has allowed more farmers to use electric pumps to draw groundwater to expand its paddy output. Six months later, like many other things…
Water for Food // Water for Food Conference Ends with Calls to "Think Big"
Humanity is in a "race against time" to produce enough food to feed itself, hampered by a false sense of comfort that set in over the last few…
Concept Paper // The Water Security Nexus <<-->> Challenges and Opportunities for Development Cooperation
Is water the "gold of the 21st century," potentially triggering "water wars" between countries sharing the precious resource? Such scenarios…
Publication // Working Towards Sustainable Development: Opportunities for decent work and social inclusion in a green economy
A green economy is necessary if sustainable development is to be realized. However, as this report emphasizes, a green economy can also, if…
Report // Resource Revolution: Meeting the World's Energy, Materials, Food, and Water Needs
A joint report by the McKinsey Global Institute and McKinsey's Sustainability & Resource Productivity Practice shows that the resource challenge can…
SPIEGEL online // Tödlicher Fortschritt am Turkana-See
Hunderttausenden Menschen droht eine ökologische Katastrophe: Ein gigantischer äthiopischer Staudamm könnte dazu führen, dass der Turkana-See in…
Mother Jones // Switching to a Green Economy Could Mean Millions of Jobs
Tens of millions of new jobs can be created around the world in the next two decades if green policies are put in place to switch the high-carbon…