Webinar: Untapped Potential: Water Innovation to Advance the SDGs

Wednesday, September 23, 2020 | 11:00-12:00

At this critical time, when ambition for all the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) must be raised, UN-Water and the Secretary-General launched the SDG 6 Global Acceleration Framework during the High-Level Political Forum in July. A key accelerator in this Framework is leveraging and scaling up innovative technologies and practices at the country level. This can only happen through effective partnerships with the business sector that bridge UN frameworks with corporate innovations. The Water Resilience Coalition, which the Pacific Institute is a partner of, is an initiative working in this space to elevate water stress to the top of the corporate agenda through innovative, data driven approaches to collective action in water-stressed basins. In this session, we participated in a dialogue among key UN players driving the SDG 6 Global Acceleration Framework and C-suite executives who have pledged support for the Water Resilience Coalition to explore how innovations in supply chain management, technology, and governance practices can advance the 2030 Agenda. The conversation highlighted the ways innovation for water and sanitation are helping to manage the Covid-19 response in countries globally, alleviate water stress, and build long-term resiliency.

Speakers

• Maria-Francesca Spatolisano (Assistant Secretary-General for Policy Coordination and Inter-Agency Affairs, UN DESA)
• Jason Morrison (President, Pacific Institute)
• Aina Grobicki (Deputy Director for Adaptation, Green Climate Fund)
• Faduma Ali (Water Youth Network) Olcay Ünver (Vice-Chair , UN-Water)
• Kate Gibson (Global Director, Diageo in Society)
• Eric Souberain (VP One Planet & Water Cycle, Danone)
• Samantha Sims (Vice President for Environmental Sustainability and Product Stewardship, PVH Corp.)