World Environment Day Roundtable | The global water crisis: from the mountains to the seas

Agenda

Welcome by Frits Schlingemann, Director, United Nations Environment Programme, Regional Office for Europe

Introduction by the moderator, Philippe Roch, Director, Swiss Agency for the Environment, Forests and Landscape

Presentations by the Panellists:

• What’s in Water? The Ramsar Convention, wetlands and water, by Nick Davidson, Deputy Secretary-General, Ramsar Convention
• Managing H2O from the hilltops to the oceans, by David Osborn, Head of Partnership and Policy Unit, UNEP Global Programme of Action
• Rainwater – Water for Life, by Margarita Pacheco-Montes, Head of the Secretariat, International Rainwater Harvesting Alliance
• Water for Development, by Samir Amin, Forum du Tiers Monde

Discussion with panelists and participants & wrap-up by moderator