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Dr. Aditi Mukherji, Principal Researcher, IWMI, was a Coordinating Lead Author of the Water Chapter of Working Group I of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Sixth Assessment Report (AR6). She was also part of the core writing team of the AR6 Synthesis Report. In 2021, IWMI hosted a webinar to present the findings of the IPCC AR6 Working Group 1 Report, and to discuss the implications of the latest climate change findings on Asia and Africa, where IWMI has been developing and implementing water management solutions to improve climate resilience. IWMI contributions to the IPCC reports are crucial to translating climate science into effective, comprehensive policy. Working Group II’s Water Chapter was released in early 2022.
As part of the UNFSS preparatory process, IWMI and the CGIAR Research Program on Water, Land and Ecosystems (WLE) led regional (in Southern Africa and Central Asia) and national (in Pakistan and Egypt) Independent Dialogues, and participated in pre-Summit events centered around the links between water and food. These dialogues helped identify local challenges and solutions to ensure a sustainable water supply to local and regional food systems. The dialogues focused on ways to sustainably transform food systems, while promoting inclusion and equity within the water-energy-food (WEF) nexus, and protecting ecosystems. Insights from these Independent Dialogues fed into the UN-Water-led global dialogue titled Water: The game changer for food systems and helped shape the UNFSS agenda.
In Glasgow, IWMI was proud to be a core partner in the Water and Climate Pavilion, alongside 31 other organizations working on water-related issues. IWMI researchers were involved in 40 sessions at COP26, engaging audiences as speakers, panelists and moderators to ensure water systems science was put forward in local, regional and global climate agendas. IWMI and partners remain committed to meeting the world’s growing demand for water-based climate solutions.
After having signed the United Nations Global Compact (UNGC) in 2019, IWMI renewed its commitment to the UNGC’s Ten Principles with a statement of communication on engagement. Internally, IWMI’s Sustainability team is dedicated to creating a comprehensive sustainability strategy with the goal of reducing the environmental footprint of the Institute’s operations. Data collection efforts are already informing our planning process, but IWMI operations will continue to align with the Paris Agreement’s goal of limiting global temperature rise to 1.5°C.
IWMI’s Indika Arulingam contributed, as a Team Member, to a report on the engagement and employment of youth in agriculture and food systems, which was compiled by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) Committee on World Food Security’s high-level panel of experts. IWMI recognizes the role of youth as agents of change in food, water and energy systems. Through our researcher’s work on this report, IWMI is building on its legacy of research on ways to position youth as agents of change in the field of sustainable development.