STRIVING FOR WATER SECURITY – AN OECD PERSPECTIVE Simon Buckle Head of Climate, Biodiversity and Water Division Environment Directorate OECD CEWP – Copenhagen 12 May 2015

4 water risks – Too little (scarcity and droughts) – Too much (e.g. floods) – Too polluted – Risks to ecosystems and their services Risks to water security Managing risks Source: OECD (2014), Water Security for Better Lives, OECD Publishing, Paris

Water Security - an economic issue Source: Sadoff et al. (2015), Securing Water, Sustaining Growth, report of the GWP/OECD Task Force on water Security and Sustainable Growth

Relative economic impacts of water insecurity Source: Sadoff et al. (2015), Securing Water, Sustaining Growth, report of the GWP/OECD Task Force on water security and sustainable growth

Integrate water investments into long-term planning efforts Prioritise investments that will enhance an economy’s resilience to water variability Support a diversity of investments based on robust cost-benefit analyses Significantly increase investment from existing and new sources of finance Pathways to water security

OECD Water Policy Dialogues – EU Water Initiative in EECCA – Selected countries (Brazil, the Netherlands…) National Policy Dialogues - platforms for continuous dialogue & coordination OECD Policy Dialogues on water -

7 OECD work for water resource management in Central Asia

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