NDC Enhancement: Opportunities Through Water

The document argues that explicit consideration of the water cycle is essential for effective climate change mitigation and adaptation. It outlines a six-step process for integrating water into NDCs, including establishing institutional arrangements, assessing priorities, and aligning with finance processes. The guide emphasizes that effective water management can improve water security, lower emissions, and support carbon sequestration through actions such as managing the water-energy nexus and preserving wetlands.

• The document proposes a six-step process to integrate water into NDCs: establishing institutional arrangements and partnerships, taking stock of progress, updating assessments of adaptation and mitigation priorities, determining how to reflect the water cycle in planning, assessing costs and benefits, and aligning NDCs with finance processes.
• Effective water management contributes to climate goals by enhancing water security, reducing emissions, and aiding carbon sequestration, specifically through the management of the water-energy nexus, wastewater treatment and recycling, and the preservation of forests and wetlands.
• The guide is intended to support the revision of NDCs, implementation planning, the development of National Adaptation Plans, and long-term strategies and local water policymaking.

APA

World Resources Institute (2019). NDC Enhancement: Opportunities Through Water. https://www.wri.org/research/ndc-enhancement-opportunities-through-water

Chicago

World Resources Institute. NDC Enhancement: Opportunities Through Water. 2019. https://www.wri.org/research/ndc-enhancement-opportunities-through-water.

Wikipedia

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BibTeX

@techreport{worldresourcesinstitute2019ndc, author = {{World Resources Institute}}, title = {{NDC Enhancement: Opportunities Through Water}}, institution = {World Resources Institute}, year = {2019}, month = oct, url = {https://www.wri.org/research/ndc-enhancement-opportunities-through-water}, urldate = {2026-08-17}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }