Quick tips: Integrating the environment and climate change in water resources management
The following note provides quick practical tips for policy, investment and capacity-development interventions, matched to local contexts, which aim to mainstream environmental and climate change aspects within integrated, sustainable, participatory and conflict-sensitive management of water resources. The EU Water Framework Directive and related directives such as the Floods Directive provide a vision for basin-wide and transboundary planning and management preserving ‘good ecological status’ of water bodies and fostering climate resilience. The European Commission’s International Partnerships Priorities including the European Green Deal and the UN Agenda 2030 provide green and sustainable pathways to address the planetary crisis and to fight climate change with actions to foster growth, eradicate poverty and ensure peace and security.
The Quick Tips series is prepared by the European Commission Directorate-General for International Partnerships (DG INTPA) to support EU staff and partner countries to ensure the environmental and climate sustainability of new programmes and to implement the Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) on climate change and other relevant commitments such as the Sendai Framework on Disaster Risk Reduction and the Biodiversity Convention.