Water is the Key for Sustainable Development: High-Level Panel on Water in the Post-2015 Development Agenda
Gyeongju - Hotel Hyundai GHH_201, Second Floor – Ruby/Emerald Room
Conveners: World Water Council, Ministry of Infrastructure and the Environment - The Netherlands, The Butterfly Effect, Swiss Development Cooperation, Department of Water and Sanitation - South Africa
Time: 09:00-12:00
Session Code: T.SS.06 Because no development can occur without the necessary water security to nurture sustainable development, the World Water Council, the Governments of the Netherlands, South Africa and Switzerland and the Butterfly Effect will convene a high-level panel on the role of water in the Sustainable Development Goals. Indeed, 2015 will mark the transition between the MDGs and the SDGs, and the 7th World Water Forum will call attention to this important evolution through this high-level event. A dedicated water goal is critical as part of the Post-2015 development agenda with measurable targets and indicators in support of life, well-being, economic development and the environment. This panel will include very high level participation and will discuss the definition of specific targets for a water goal in the SDGs, as formulated at the time of the Forum. The panel will mainly address how the Goals and Targets related to water will be implemented and monitored in the coming 15 years, in particular at the national and regional levels, in order to ensure true progress in their achievement. This is also in line with the Forum’s overall emphasis on implementation.
Timing
Item
Speakers
9:00
Welcome
Benedito Braga, President, World Water Council
9:10
Opening Statement
Melanie Schultz van Haegen, Minister of Infrastructure and the Environment - The Netherlands
9:30
Panel Discussion – Part I
Kirsten Brosbøl, Minister for the Environment - Denmark
Gyewoon Choi, CEO, K-water
Michel Jarraud, Chair, UN Water
Yolanda Kakabadse, President, WWF
Donald Kasongi, Board Secretary General, Nile Basin Discourse
Nomvula Mokonyane, Minister of Water and Sanitation - South Africa
Jack Moss, Executive Director, AquaFed
Facilitator: John Sibi-Okumu
10:00
Q&A and Twitter check
Facilitator: Karin Krchnak, WWF
10:30
Break
10:45
Panel Discussion part II
Same as above
11:10
Q&A and Twitter check
11:35
Summary of main points
Rapporteur: Andras Szollosi-Nagy, Special Envoy of the President of Hungary
11:45
Closing Statement
Pio Wennubst, Assistant Director General, Swiss Development Cooperation
