Event.25 Oct 2024, 13:30 - 14:45 CEST

Strengthening transboundary cooperation through holistic source-to-sea management

Discover how integrated source-to-sea management can drive sustainable development through captivating case studies from around the globe.

Date

25 Oct 2024, 13:30 - 14:45 CEST

PlaceLjubljana Exhibition and Convention Centre, Onsite: Room 4

This side event will explore how integrated source-to-sea management approaches can play a critical role in achieving sustainable development, particularly in relation to SDG 6 (Clean Water and Sanitation), SDG 14 (Life Below Water) and SDG 15 (Life on Land). Through a series of concrete case studies and experience sharing from diverse regions around the world, the event aims to address the following key questions.

This is an onsite event only for registered participants of the MOP10, held in room 4.

Agenda of the side event

Welcome

Welcome by the moderator Ruth Mathews, Senior Manager at SIWI and Coordinator of the S2S Platform
Welcoming remarks by Giovanna Valverde Stark, Head of the Boundaries, Limits and Sovereignty Department and Special Advisor on Climate Change at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Worship of Costa Rica

Panel discussion

Moderated by Ruth Mathews, Senior Manager at SIWI and Coordinator of the S2S Platform with the following panelists:

Rüdiger Strempel, Executive Secretary of HELCOM
Mitja Bricelj, Ministry of Natural Resources and Spatial Planning of Slovenia
Birgit Vogel, Executive Secretary of ICPDR
Ulrika Stensdotter, Blomberg, Sweden
Olfat Hamdan, UNEP/MAP
Mohamed Abdel Vetah, OMVS (tbc)
Dimitris Faloutsos, Global Water Partnership

Closing remarks

Hartwig Kremer, Chief of the International Water Unit at GEF

This event is co-led by the Source-to-Sea Action Platform, Stockholm International Water Institute (SIWI) and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Worship of Costa Rica, and co-organized by Estonia, Finland, Slovenia, Global Environment Facility (GEF), Global Water Partnership (GWP), International Commission for the Protection of the Danube River (ICPDR), Water Convention Secretariat, UNEP Mediterranean Action Plan (UNEP-MAP), Baltic Marine Environment Protection Commission (HELCOM)