Opening panel at SDG 6 and Water Action Agenda event at HLPF 2024 (L-R) Nanette Braun, Director of Campaigns, UN Department for Global Communications; Keith Harper, Vice Chair of the UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues; Alvaro Lario, UN-Water Chair and President of the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD); Li Junhua, UN Under-Secretary-General for Economic and Social Affairs; Astrid Schomaker, Executive Secretary, Convention on Biological Diversity; and Patricia Fuller, CEO, IISD