The global workshop will bring together water, agriculture, climate and environment communities as well as drought experts to jointly discuss best practices and lessons learned in addressing droughts in transboundary basins.
The global workshop is organized under the auspices of the Water Convention serviced by UNECE, under the leadership of the Netherlands and Switzerland, in cooperation with UN Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD), United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR), World Meteorological Organisation (WMO) and the International Network of Basin Organisations (INBO).
Working languages of the workshop will be English, French, Russian and Spanish. A detailed programme of the workshop will be issued in February 2024.
The workshop will be followed by the fourteenth meeting of the Task Force on Water and Climate under the Water Convention on 28 February 2024, which will review all climate change activities as well as plans for the future under the Convention.
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