Theme: Seeds of Change: Innovative Solutions for a Water-Wise World
Stockholm World Water Week is a central annual event for urgent dialogues on water issues worldwide. From 20-24 August, the CEO Water Mandate aims to utilize this platform to drive thought-provoking conversations and discuss innovative solutions to complex water challenges.
Building on the insights from the UN 2023 Water Conference and our commitment to the Water Action Agenda, we are dedicated to fostering new forms of collaboration. Our participation extends across a range of key issues, including financing water innovations, promoting collective action for water stewardship, and implementing nature-based solutions to strengthen urban climate resilience.
The Mandate has a long history of World Water Week participation. For a look back at 2022, read CEO Water Mandate Head Jason Morrison’s reflections.
Activating the Innovation Accelerator of the SDG6 Global Acceleration Framework
Featuring: Jason Morrison – Head, CEO Water Mandate
The session focuses on how to bring together stakeholders, through the lens of innovation. The thread in the session is new forms of partnership through innovation aiming to accelerate progress towards SDG 6, with a focus on unearthing success factors from existing such partnerships, to allow replication. It will be structured based on the process for innovation for the 5 accelerators of the SDG 6 Global Acceleration Framework. It will look at commitments in the Water Action Agenda and see how to generate greater alignment on and commitment to innovation.
Date: 20 August, 2023
Time: 16:00-17:30 CET
Location: Stockholm Waterfront Congress Centre, C1
Conveners:
UN-Water, GWP, CEO Water Mandate, World Bank Group, UN Innovation Network, UNICEF, UNDP, UNESCO, IHE, WWF
SIWI Seminar: What Sparks and Fuels Innovations in Financing Water?
Featuring: Cheryl Hicks – Senior Advisor, CEO Water Mandate
The session will discuss challenges and opportunities for scaling up financing for the water sector to accelerate SDG6 achievement through supporting the enabling conditions and innovative instruments and solutions, in accordance with the SDG6 Global Acceleration Framework that comprises optimized financing, capacity development, innovation, and governance.
Date: 20 August, 2022
Time: 11:00-12:30 CET
Location: Stockholm Waterfront Congress Centre, C3
Conveners:
Development bank of Latin America (CAF), Global Water Intelligence (GWI), The World Bank
Aligning and Accelerating Collective Action for Water Stewardship
Featuring: Jason Morrison – Head, CEO Water Mandate
Tackling the shared water challenges of SDG6 requires private, public and civil society sectors to collaborate. Building on efforts from the UN Water Summit, this session will outline new efforts to align, advance and accelerate collective action for water stewardship in basins, including innovative models of collective funding and financing.
Date: 20 August, 2023
Time: 14:00-15:30 CET
Location: Stockholm Waterfront Congress Centre, C3
SIWI Seminar Innovation for Water & Climate
Featuring: Dr. Gregg Brill – Technical Lead, CEO Water Mandate
This session will explore a just transition to sustainable water systems in a way that promotes social equity and fairness. It will also address the role of innovation to ensure new technologies are sustainable and equitable. Presenters will additionally dive into innovative policies that can relieve disproportionate burdens on vulnerable communities.
Date: 21 August, 2023
Time: 19:00-20:00 CET
Location: Online
Conveners:
The World Resources Institute (WRI), India Climate Collaborative (ICC), WELL Labs (Water Environment Land and Livelihood Labs), Human Right 2 Water
WASH Benefits Accounting Framework
Featuring: Cheryl Hicks – Senior Advisor, CEO Water Mandate
WASH4Work launched the WASH Benefits Accounting Draft Framework alongside the UN Water Conference In March 2023 – The Framework aims to standardize and provide guidance for corporate WASH impact accounting and reporting. Join us in this session in Stockholm to learn more about the Framework’s impact pathway to measure the multiple benefits, impacts and outcomes of corporate WASH actions. The Framework will undergo a final review period with corporate water stewardship practitioners and WASH stakeholders, via pilots in 2023.
Contact WASH4Work Secretariat secretariat@wash4work.org to RSVP or learn more.
Date: 23 August 2023
Time: 08:45-10:00 CET
Location: Epicentre, Mäster Samuelsgatan 36, 111 57 Stockholm
Conveners: WASH4Work, LimnoTech
Nature Based Solutions to Strengthen Urban Climate Resilience: Implementation Pathways
Featuring: Dr. Gregg Brill – Technical Lead, CEO Water Mandate
This interactive session will bring together experts in urban planning and natural resources management to present best practices to overcome design and implementation challenges. Focusing on success factors and needs for an enabling environment, we will explore innovative pathways to improve implementation of NBS and work at the level of systems change.
Date: 23 August, 2023
Time: 09:00-10:30 CET
Location: Stockholm Waterfront Congress Centre, A4
Conveners:
Antea Group, BitaGreen/Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Enabel, ICLEI-Local Governments for Sustainability-Africa, KfW Development Bank, Pacific Institute, UN Habitat, UNESCO Chair on Urban Resilience, World Resources Institute
Off-site Event: Aligning and Accelerating Collective Action for Water Stewardship
Featuring: Todd Player – Digital Technology Program Manager, CEO Water Mandate
This working session will build on dialogues around collective action for water stewardship begun at the UN Water Conference.
Date: 23 August, 2023
Time: 10:00AM-11:30AM CET
Location: Epicentre, Mäster Samuelsgatan 36, 111 57 Stockholm
Convener: WWF
Off-site Event: Innovative Nature-based Solutions Tools to Support Water and Climate Resilience
Featuring Dr. Gregg Brill, Technical Lead, CEO Water Mandate and Todd Player, Digital Technology Program Manager, CEO Water Mandate
This session will focus on science-based tools that can enhance the design and operation of Nature-based Solution programs. These tools address shared water challenges like riverine flooding, water pollution, drought, and stormwater. The presenters will demonstrate how these tools can be utilized in diverse global contexts.
Date: 24 August, 2023
Time: 10:15AM-11:15AM CET
Location: Online and in-person at Epicentre, Mäster Samuelsgatan 36, 111 57 Stockholm
Conveners:
The Nature Conservancy, CEO Water Mandate, Pacific Institute, Forest Trends
Standardizing methods for evaluating water quality benefits of stewardship activities
Featuring: Dr. Gregg Brill – Technical Lead, CEO Water Mandate
LimnoTech, The Nature Conservancy, and World Resources Institute will introduce standardized methods for evaluating water quality benefits of water stewardship activities. This Water Quality Benefit Accounting guidance is designed to be technically robust yet practical to implement around the globe. Session participants will provide feedback on the draft approach.
Date: 24 August, 2023
Time: 11:00-12:30 CET
Location: Stockholm Waterfront Congress Centre, A2
Conveners:
AB InBev, Amazon Web Services, Cargill Inc, Google, LimnoTech, Meta, Starbucks, The Coca-Cola Company, The Nature Conservancy, World Resources Institute
Off-site Event: Science-Based Targets of Nature for Water: Implementation, Ecosystem, & Pathways
Featuring: Dr. Gregg Brill – Technical Lead, CEO Water Mandate
The recent launch of the first science-based targets (SBTs) for nature takes steps to address key needs in setting location-specific water targets and advancing corporate water stewardship. Building on efforts from the UN 2023 Water Conference, this interactive session will cover how SBTs for Freshwater interconnects with the existing guidance, initiatives, and standards designed to help companies with their water stewardship. Participants will also hear from companies piloting the SBTN’s target validation process. At this “Waterside Chat” companies will discuss the water-related journey, why they are setting freshwater targets, and the types of data and programs that prepared them.
Date: 24 August, 2023
Time: 12:45PM-2:15PM CET
Location: Epicentre, Mäster Samuelsgatan 36, 111 57 Stockholm
Conveners:
WWF, CDP, The Nature Conservancy, World Resources Institute, CEO Water Mandate, Alliance for Water Stewardship, SBt Network
Off-site Event: Measuring the Impact of Nature-Based Programs to Address Water Stress
Featuring: Dr. Gregg Brill – Technical Lead, CEO Water Mandate
Robust and innovative monitoring and measurement can help to understand whether solutions are truly having a quantifiable impact on watershed health. Corporate water stewardship programs often focus on water quantity or quality. This panel will challenge this approach and explore measuring progress across multiple indicators (biodiversity, climate, and socioeconomic impacts).
Date: 24 August, 2023
Time: 3:45PM-4:45PM CET
Location: Epicentre, Mäster Samuelsgatan 36, 111 57 Stockholm