On this page, you can find the documentation from webinars hosted by the Climate Resilient Sanitation Coalition.
WEBINAR 22.01.2025 - Climate Resilient Sanitation: Green Climate Fund (GCF) Annex
You can access the presentation slides [here], and the key messages [here].
14013 SIWI Seminar (1/3): Mitigating and Adapting to climate impacts through sanitation systems
This online session establishes the foundational evidence for integrating sanitation with climate action. It will articulate how climate change, through events like water scarcity and flooding, disrupts sanitation infrastructure and services, exacerbating existing vulnerabilities. Participants will learn how safely managed, climate-resilient sanitation enhances community resilience and climate adaptation. The session will delve into the latest science on greenhouse gas emissions from the sanitation sector, identifying major sources across the service chain (direct, indirect, and embedded emissions; Scope 1, 2, and 3) and showcasing its significant mitigation potential with examples from a case study in Lahan, Nepal. The goal is to motivate participants to engage further in climate-resilient sanitation initiatives and understand its critical role in both adapting to climate impacts and reducing sectoral contributions to climate change.
14014 SIWI Seminar (2/3): Mitigating and Adapting to climate impacts through sanitation systems
This session will showcase viable climate-resilient sanitation solutions through evidence-based examples of how interventions effectively address climate risks. It will highlight practical examples of both mitigation and adaptation strategies, including system strengthening, trade-offs, and projects like the Juan Díaz WWTP in Panama, a city wide inclusive intervention in Bangladesh and a series of efforts in Kenya, including the use of carbon credits for sanitation service provision. The session will underscore the urgent need for increased financial resources to scale up these proven climate-resilient sanitation practices, emphasizing the economic and social benefits of such investments. Discussions will involve key partners and stakeholders, particularly implementing partners, highlighting their crucial roles in advancing and funding these solutions. Through interactive segments, participants will identify successful CRS interventions and understand the approaches for both mitigation and adaptation, while also evaluating implementation challenges and trade-offs.
14010 SIWI Seminar (3/3): Tracking outcomes of global water and climate conferences
Tracking global water and climate targets and commitments require diverse and innovative tools, approaches, and solutions for improved follow up. There are existing tools for such tracking, along with innovative ideas for new tools; both may be useful for local to global organizations in identifying their own approaches for water and climate tracking and post-conference follow up. While approaches to tracking physical water and climate flows are important, there also needs to be innovative social and political approaches that can increase inclusivity at water and climate conferences, where such targets and commitments are set. We need to think about how future water and climate conferences, such as the UN 2026 Water Conference, can be more inclusive of diverse participants, perspectives, and backgrounds. This online session focuses on case studies, tools, approaches, and solutions to improve accountability and follow up in achieving water and climate targets set at global conferences. To that end, it aims at increasing understanding of innovative pathways for monitoring water and climate conference outcomes, highlighting diverse youth perspectives for increasing inclusivity at future water and climate conferences.
