The United Nations world water development report 2020: water and climate change
Climate change will affect the availability, quality and quantity of water for basic human needs, threatening the effective enjoyment of the human rights to water and sanitation for potentially billions of people. The hydrological changes induced by climate change will add challenges to the sustainable management of water resources, which are already under severe pressure in many regions of the world.
Food security, human health, urban and rural settlements, energy production, industrial development, economic growth, and ecosystems are all water-dependent and thus vulnerable to the impacts of climate change. Climate change adaptation and mitigation through water management is therefore critical to sustainable development, and essential to achieving the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, the Paris Agreement on Climate Change and the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction.
The United Nations world water development report 2020 includes;
- The state of water resources in the context of climate change
- Climate change, water and sustainable development
- International policy frameworks
- Water availability, infrastructure and ecosystems
- Water-related extremes and risk management
- Human health impacts related to water, sanitation and climate change
- Agriculture and food security
- Energy and industry
- Human settlements
- Water–Climate–Energy–Food–Environment Nexus
- Regional perspectives
- Water governance for resilience to climate change
- Climate finance: Financial and economic considerations
- Technological innovation and citizen knowledge
- Moving forward
This report is coordinated and produced by UNESCO.