The 26th World Water Week will be held in in Stockholm, Sweden in August 2016, and the theme for this year is ‘Water for Sustainable Growth’ and will address sustainable growth with a focus on inclusiveness in terms of societal and human dimensions in all regions of the world.
Every year thousands of scientific, business, policy and civic participants from 120 countries attend the preeminent international forum where events are convened by more than 300 leading international organisations, in search of solutions to the planet’s most urgent water-related issues.
The programme for Water Week consists of more than 140 ninety-minute convenor events of different formats, covering a range of subjects. This year the subjects will include all relevant topics relating to “Water for Sustainable Growth,” and will include Climate Change, Energy, Sanitation, Conflict Resolution, Financing, Gender issues, Water Management, Food, and Integrity.
The week in Stockholm will also be the perfect time and place for participants to address the role of water in the post-2015 Development Agenda and to take stock on the progress of the 2030 Agenda and the Paris Climate Change Agreement from a multi-sector and stakeholder perspective.
The UN, informed by the World Water Development Report 2016, will focus on “water and jobs” as one of the key future water issues : making a contribution to better the lives of millions of people by maintaining and creating meaningful jobs related to water and wastewater development, service provision, protection and management.
The World Water Week in Stockholm in 2016 will replicate and advance the UN ‘water and jobs’ theme, but in the broader context of sustainable growth, thereby contributing to the (proposed) SDG 8 to “promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all”.
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