3 February 2022, 13:00:00 – 14:30:00 (Central Europe/Zurich/GMT+1)
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Springing from “Road to Geneva” events organized around this theme, this “hybrid” roundtable will highlight findings from ongoing community-based science and environmental diplomacy approaches to identify cooperative, yet feasible scientific, technological, legal and policy solutions for securing clean water within and across four transboundary river basins: the Indus (India, Pakistan, Afghanistan, China), the Jordan (Israel, Palestine, Jordan), the Mekong (China, Laos, Cambodia, Myanmar, Thailand, Vietnam), and the Amazon (Ecuador, Brazil, Peru, Columbia, Bolivia, Guyana, Suriname, Venezuela). Water shared across political boundaries can be a powerful avenue for peace-building. Empowering local communities to conserve ecosystem services and co-design water pollution mitigation solutions can enable sustainable transitions that benefit both people and nature. The power of citizen science monitoring and transboundary governance creates a holistic positive feedback effect which can combat Track-1 formal diplomatic inertia in complex transboundary conflict zones. Our hypothesized theory of change is that Track-2 and Track-3 environmental diplomacy can leverage change by capitalizing upon the shared goals to conserve natural resources in conflict-ridden Social Ecological Systems (SES). An international panel of 8 scientists and community-based representatives from four focal basins will address semi-structured questions from the moderator and audience.
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