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Neutral
The Global Carbon Project has published an ESSP commissioned
report "carbon reductions and offsets" with a number
of recommendations for individuals and institutions who want to
participate in this voluntary market.Click here
to learn more and to download the report from the GCP website.
GWSP Digital Water Atlas
Launched on 21 February 2008
The GWSP Digital Water Atlas was launched on 21 February 2008
and is now available at atlas.gwsp.org.
The Atlas currently contains 50 global maps and datasets on
water-related topics and more than 100 links to other data and
information sources. Comments and contributions are highly welcomed
through the Atlas
webite.
 
The GWSP Annual Activity Report
2007-2008 is available online now.
To download the file, click here.
The Annual Activity Report for 2006-2007 is available in Chinese
translation here.
Development Issue "Water for
People"
Vol. 51.1 (March 2008) is out now.
Water for People is the first compelling issue of the 2008
volume of Development- a volume devoted entirely to the environment
and development.
Many communities are taking up the responsibility of their own
water management, practicing or revitalizing new modes of water
governance and building alternative knowledge of water. Water
for People rethinks water and water scarcity, illustrating alternative
management methods. It hopes to enrich the growing field of
water-people relationships by focusing on how communities balance
their water needs in ways that take into consideration both
the environment and the people.
To read the table of contents, click here.
GWSP Newsletter No 5/6 Published
The current issue of the Global Water News includes
lead articles about 'Global Water Governance' (by Claudia Pahl-Wostl,
Joyeeta Gupta, and Daniel Petry) and about 'Green Water and the
Global Water System' (by Holger Hoff) and is available
online now.
GWSP at the
UN Climate Change Conference in Bali
Side event on Vulnerability, Adaptation,
Resilience:
Cutting-Edge Science for Informed Decisions
The International Human Dimensions Programme on Global Environmental
Change (IHDP) and the United Nations University jointly organised
a side event on Tuesday, 4 December 2007 with speakers from GWSP,
the Global Carbon Project (GCP), the System for Analysis, Research,
and Training (START) and the Asia-Pacific Network for Global Change
(APN). Falk Schmidt, GWSP liaison from the IHDP secretariat, presented
on behalf of Lydia Dümenil Gates, GWSP Executive Officer,
on vulnerability and adaptation to climate change from a global
water system perspective. The presentation can be downloaded here.
Nobel Peace Prize for IPCC
GWSP researchers amongst the authors of the
4th Assessment Report
The 2007 Nobel Peace Prize has been awarded to the IPCC (jointly
with former US Vice-President Al Gore) for their efforts to build
up and disseminate greater knowledge about man-made climate change,
and to lay the foundations for the measures that are needed to
counteract such change as the Nobel Committee points out.
Click
here to read more.
IPCC Technical Paper on Climate
Change and Water
The IPCC Technical Paper on Climate Change and
Water is currently under review by governments and experts. Please
consult the IPCC Website for further
information.
  
Webcast
Climate-Security Connections:
An Empirical Approach to Risk Assessment
Click here to read more.
Call for applications
Advanced Institute on Global Environmental
Change and the Vulnerability of Water Resources in the Context of
the MDGs
Click here
to read more.
Call for Research Proposals Concerned
with
the Global Water System
Click here
to read more.
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