1st Preparatory Meeting of the 23rd OSCE Economic and Environmental Forum
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Today, water issues remain at the center of attention, as global population increases, thus pressuring the use of water resources. Therefore water governance has and will continue to play a major factor in local, regional and global security.
Forum’s participants will discuss various issues related to water governance including its role in the development of environmental sustainability and economic and social prosperity and stability, as well as its role in the context of disaster risk reduction. They will also look into how to better promote dialogue in good water governance within the OSCE area through sharing best practices and lessons learned, and to involve key stakeholders including the civil society.
The First Preparatory Meeting of the Forum will take place on 26-27 January 2015 in Vienna and will focus on the following:
- Illustrating best practices in implementing good water governance
- Demonstrating new approaches to sustainable hydropower and efficient irrigation
- Exploring the nexus between water, food and energy
- Fighting corruption in the water sector
- Presenting basin management approaches across administrative boundaries
The Economic and Environmental Forum is the main annual event in the OSCE's economic and environmental dimension. The Forum process provides a platform for multi-stakeholder dialogue, by bringing together officials from the 57 OSCE participating States and 11 OSCE Partner for Co-operation countries, high-level representatives from international organizations, as well as from the civil society, the academic and the business community.
Its main objective is to stimulate deeper political dialogue, and generate commitments and recommendations for concrete activities to assist countries in dealing with economic and environmental aspects of security.
The First Preparatory Meeting of the Forum will be followed by a Second Preparatory Meeting in May 2015, in Serbia, and a Concluding Meeting on 14-16 September 2015 in Prague.
Presentations and documents related to the event see under Resources/Documents below.