AGU24 Annual Meeting - Abstract Submission Period Open for AGWA Sessions
AGWA will convene two sessions at the AGU24 annual meeting, a global scientific conference with an expected 25,000 participants taking place in Washington DC from 9-14 December 2024.
Abstracts submissions are now invited to be submitted by the deadline of July 31, 2024. Learn more on how submit an abstract on the AGU portal here.
Advancing Approaches to Mainstream Water and Resilience for Climate Mitigation Across Sectors (GC018)
Convenors: AGWA, World Bank, United States Bureau of Reclamation
More than 10% of greenhouse emissions directly link to water management, while a small fraction of climate mitigation finance is used to address these emissions. Nearly all investments in clean energy transitions will likewise depend upon and have an impact on water resources. This session seeks presentations on effective practices and innovations to reduce emissions and build resilience through water management in energy, agriculture, and natural systems. Learnings that can be applied to support improved linkages between science-policy-planning, particularly for national climate planning processes and the implementation of nationally determined contributions (NDCs) will be highlighted.
Submit an abstract to this session here.
Resilience as Macroeconomic Policy: Mobilizing Water Resources to Operationalize Adaptive Development in a Time of Global Change (SY045)
Convenors: AGWA, World Bank, IADB, University of Maryland College Park
Resilience is not an accident — it must be planned for and invested in, even by economic planners. Climate change poses unprecedented challenges, disrupting trade relationships, rendering supply chains brittle, stranding investments, and generating new socioeconomic inequities. Disciplines such as engineering and hydrology have been integrating resilience measures into their core practices, but resilience has not been fully embraced as a macroeconomic principle that can be operationalized despite warnings since the influential Stern Review. Economic planning in most cases inadequately integrates climate dynamics, and simplistic derisking is no longer sufficient. Instead, policymakers, companies, and economic planners need to articulate choices that can tolerate climate uncertainty and value qualities such as redundancy, flexibility, and robustness. For this session, we propose to show that water resources can move beyond being a hazard to a systemic solution for planning and implementation, embracing deep uncertainty and building coherence between sectors, investments, and administrative boundaries.