Action on Water, Adaptation and Resilience (AWARe)
The initiative will catalyse inclusive cooperation to address water as a key to climate change adaptation and its co-benefits, as well as resilience. It aims at offering transitional adaptation solutions for planet and people, starting with the worlds most vulnerable communities and ecosystems, including water scarce countries.
Water is essential for the full enjoyment of life and all human rights. It is critical to achieve the highest attainable standard of human health, as well as food, livelihoods, and ecosystems security. It is a key element of people’s social and cultural well-being and contributes to sustainable development. The Global Water Crisis is currently affecting billions of people worldwide and is projected to be further aggravated by increasing demand, changing water availability and an increasing impact of floods and droughts, which calls for greater international cooperation.
The AWARe initiative will build on and interlink the Water and Climate Coalition, the Adaptation Action Coalition as well as the Marrakesh Partnership Climate Action Pathway Water and contribute to the goal on adaptation. The AWARe initiative is also set to contribute to the successful outcome of the 2023 UN Conference on Water.
Summit/ Mobilization process: UNFCCC COP27, Sharm el Sheikh, Egypt (2022).
