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Daily Web Coverage/Daily Reports/Summary Report
IISD Reporting Services (IISD RS) has producing daily web coverage, daily reports from this Summit and a summary report from this event. To download our reports, kindly click the HTML/PDF icons below. |
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Budapest Water Summit
8-11 October 2013 | Budapest, Hungary
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Daily web coverage (click on the following links to see our daily web pages)
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Highlights for Tuesday, 8 October 2013
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 The Budapest Water Summit opened on Tuesday, 8 October 2013, in Budapest, Hungary. Participants engaged in the opening ceremony setting the stage for the four-day conference. The meeting is taking place in the context of the United Nations International Year of Water Cooperation 2013, the outcome of the UN Conference on Sustainable Development (UNCSD, or Rio+20) “The Future We Want,” and the ongoing post-2015 development agenda process to negotiate sustainable development goals (SDGs).
The Budapest Water Summit will include a Summit Plenary, Science Forum, Civil Society Forum, Youth Forum, and a Business Leaders Forum. In addition a Water and Sanitation Expo, a Philanthropy Roundtable and side events will also take place. The Budapest Water Summit will address a variety of issues in sessions and high-level panels, including: striving for universal access to water and sanitation; addressing water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) issues; implementing integrated water resources management (IWRM) for the 21st century; serving a growing population with water in a changing climate; addressing the water-energy-food nexus; implementing good water governance; governing water wisely with smart SDGs; enabling a green economy for blue water; investing and financing to address the global water and sanitation crisis and related SDG; and leveraging finance. The outcome of the Budapest Water Summit will be the Budapest Statement. |
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Opening Ceremony
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| UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon and other guests during the opening ceremony |
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| L-R Sándor Fazekas, Minister of Rural Development, Hungary, Sok An Prime Minister, Cambodia |
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| Invited Guests during the opening ceremony |
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| UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon and other guests seated before the opening ceremony |
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Daily web coverage (click on the following links to see our daily web pages)
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Summit resources
 Summit website
Summit plenary programme
Summit documents
Draft programme schedule of the Science Forum
Draft programme schedule of the Civil Society Forum
Draft programme schedule of the Youth Forum
Draft programme of the Business Leaders Forum
Draft programme schedule of the Philanthropy Roundtable
Side events provisional timetable
Global water agenda
General resources
UN Water website
2013 - UN International Year of Water Cooperation
World Water Council website
IISD RS resources
IISD RS coverage of the Twelfth RRI Dialogue on Forests, Governance and Climate Change, 5 November 2012, Washington, DC, United States of America
IISD RS coverage of the High-Level Consultation on Water in the Post-2015 Development Agenda, 21-22 March 2013, The Hague, Netherlands
IISD RS coverage of the Post-2015 Development Agenda Consultation on Water: Water Resources Management and Wastewater Management and Water Quality, 27-28 February 2013, Palais des Nations, Geneva, Switzerland
IISD RS coverage of Rio+20: Third PrepCom and the UN Conference on Sustainable Development (UNCSD), 13-22 June 2012, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
IISD RS coverage of the 5th World Water Forum, 16-22 March 2009, Istanbul, Turkey
Post-2015 Development Agenda Meeting Reporting
Water-L - A news and announcement list on water policy issues
Water Policy & Practice - A Knowledgebase of Activities Addressing Sustainable Water and Sanitation
SDG - A mailing list focused on internationally-relevant activities related to setting the post-2015 development agenda
Sustainable Development Policy & Practice - A Knowledgebase of UN and Intergovernmental Post-2015 Development Agenda Activities
SDG - A mailing list for news on sustainable development policy
Sustainable Development Policy & Practice - A Knowledgebase of International Activities Preparing for the UN Conference on Sustainable Development
Linkages Update - Bi-weekly international environment and sustainable development news
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