Policy
Webinar Series // Water and Climate Coordination: Interactions between water and different sectors
Global Water Partnership, SIWI, Water Governance Facility, Alliance for Global Water Adaptation, UNDP and Cap-net have organised this webinar series.…
Webinar // What's Next for Environmental Peacebuilding?
This event explores lessons and opportunities from conflict-affected states. Featuring academics writing for International Affairs on environmental…
Online Seminar // Governance, Regulations and Integrated Approaches including Financial Mechanisms
The EU GCC Clean Energy Technology Network and the Environmental Center for Arab Towns (ECAT), in association with the Middle East Desalination…
Policy Paper // Towards sustainable renewable energy investment and deployment: Trade-offs and opportunities with water resources and the environment
This “tool-kit” publication by UNECE - a joint effort of the Environment and Sustainable Energy Divisions - proposes a pragmatic approach to support…
Policy Brief // Promoting Human-Centric Technologies and the Urban Nexus to address the Water-Energy-Food (WEF) Sustainability Challenges of Smart Cities
By Ghadah Aldabbagh, Nikos Dimitriou, Jauad el Kharraz, Hammou Laamrani, Kamal Tumi, Daniela Diegelmann, Majed Mohammed Mustafa Hallawani, Abdullah M…
Transboundary Rivers // Fostering Cooperation on Transboundary Waters: Success Stories from SDC’s Transboundary Waters Program
By Annika Kramer, Lukas Rüttinger and Paola Adriázola. The Global Programme Water (GPW) of the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC)…
Policy Brief // Integrated Policies to Improve the Energy-Water-Food System Nexus to Achieve the SDGs
By Carlo Andrea Bollino, Venkatachalam Anbumozhi, Suresh Babu, Yamaji Eiji, Marzio Galeotti. This Policy Brief focusses on an integrated approach…
Publication // Towards sustainable renewable energy investment and deployment; Trade-offs and opportunities with water resources and the environment
By United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE). This report offers a non-comprehensive “toolkit” to enable policy-makers to identify,…
Video // Recording of the Webinar: Modeling the Water-Energy-Food Nexus; bridging Science and Policy Making
Watch the recorded webinar on 'Modeling the Water-Energy-Food Nexus | bridging Science and Policy' Making with guest speaker Dr. Ali Karnib,…
Nexus Blog // Is it crunch time for the Water-Energy-Food (WEF) Nexus? 3 recommendations to move the needle
In this article Jonathan Lautze, Dr. Stefan Uhlenbrook and Dr. Luna Bharati succinctly present three recommendations to take the WEF nexus to the…
Publication // Implementing International Watercourses Law through the WEF Nexus and SDGs: an Integrated Approach Illustrated in the Zambezi River Basin
By Zeray Yihdego and Julie Gibson. The authors present how policy frameworks, like the Water-Energy-Food Nexus (WEF) and the global development…
Policy Brief // Outcomes of the EU Horizon 2020 DAFNE PROJECT: The Zambezi River Basin Integrated Cooperation for a Vital Resource
This policy brief is derived from research conducted under €5.5M four-year EU Horizon 2020 and Swiss funded ‘DAFNE’ project which concerns the…
Nexus Blog // UNECE launches methodology to evaluate the sustainability of infrastructure projects and guidelines on Waste-to-Energy projects for the circular economy
As countries all over the world aim at ‘building back better’ from the COVID-19 pandemic, the recently-launched UNECE People-first PPP Evaluation…