The United Nations World Water Development Report 2020: Water and Climate Change.
Climate change will affect the availability, quality and quantity of water for basic human needs, threatening the effective enjoyment of the human rights to water and sanitation for potentially billions of people. The hydrological changes induced by climate change will add challenges to the sustainable management of water resources, which are already under severe pressure in many regions of the world. Food security, human health, urban and rural settlements, energy production, industrial development, economic growth, and ecosystems are all water-dependent and thus vulnerable to the impacts of climate change. Climate change adaptation and mitigation through water management is therefore critical to sustainable development, and essential to achieving the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, the Paris Agreement on Climate Change and the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction.
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| Format: | Report biblioteca |
| Language: | English |
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UNESCO for UN-Water
2020
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| Subjects: | Climate Change, Sustainable management, Hydrological changes, Food security, Human health, Water quality, Water quantity, |
| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/1834/42227 |
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