SIDE EVENTPROMOTING PRIVATE-PUBLIC
PARTNERSHIPS - A VEHICLE TOWARDSFULFILLING SDG 6 AND CLIMATE ACTIONS
24 March 2023
8:00- 9:15
Side Room C UN HQ Inside
The governments in Europe, Japan, and the Republic of Korea, are taking the lead among the firstto address the challenges by collaborating with their private sectors to reduce greenhouse gas
emissions and promote adaptation and resilience measures from the impacts of climate change
and disasters by mainstreaming the policies and measures through water cycle management fromsource to sea. To explore the necessary triple or even quadruple helix structures as a vehicle
towards achieving SDG 6, and the global targets, this side event will discuss Private-PublicPartnerships for climate change mitigation and NBS through sound water cycle management bysharing good practices, lessons, and commitment in Europe, Japan, and Korea.

Program
2mins

Session introduction

10minsMs. Yumiko Asayama, Chief Manager, Japan Water Forum s/o NoWNET Secretariat
Keynote presentation: The essential drop to Net-Zero: Unpacking freshwater’s role in climate change
mitigation: Water-wise integrated approaches and nature-based solutions as tools for climate mitigation

48mins
5-6minseach

Dr Malin Lundberg Ingemarsson, Programme Manager, International Policy / Team Lead, Water for Resilient
Landscapes, SIWICountry and NGO’s examples and commitments• Denmark: Mr. Stefan Szylkarski, Executive Vice President, DHI• Finland: Ms. Johanna Sumuvuori, State Secretary to the Minister for Foreign Affairs of Finland• France: Mr. Dan LERT, Deputy Mayor of Paris on Ecological Transition, Climate Plan and Energy, andPresident of Eau de Paris• France: Mr. Max Pelegrini, the president of the French Professional Federation of Water Entreprises• Japan: Ms. Yumiko Asayama, Chief Manager, Japan Water Forum (on behalf of the Secretariat of theHeadquarters for Water Cycle Policy of the Cabinet Secretariat, Japan)• Republic of Korea: Dr. Eun Namkung, Vice-president of Korea Water Forum• Netherlands : TBD• Sweden: Mr. José Pablo Murillo, Programme Officer at the Source to Sea team of the Water Resources
Department, SIWI
• World Water Council: Mrs. Andrea Erickson, Global Lead Water Security, The Nature Conservancy
Moderator: Dr. Thomas Rebermark, Director, Swedish Water House

13mins2 mins

Q&A
Wrap up: Dr. Thomas Rebermark, Director, Swedish Water House

Water Action Agenda from the partner organizations⚫ The Secretariat of the Headquarters for Water Cycle Policy of the Cabinet
Secretariat, Japan
Create and support an enabling environment for the private sector to plan andimplement their measures for a sound water cycle through a public and private
partnership⚫ Finland Government:
Finland's Special Envoy for Water, Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Finland(#SDGAction49510): https://sdgs.un.org/partnerships/finlands-special-envoy-water⚫ Finnish Water Forum
Finnish Water Stewardship Expert Network (not yet in the official Water Actionplatform)⚫ French Water Partnership
The app Water4AllSDGs, a free assessment of contributions to the SDG targets of aproject, policy or action in the field of Water.
⚫ Japan Water Forum
Initiate the platform and dialogue among multi-stakeholder of Japan's river basins topromote safety and minimum entropy.
⚫ Korea Water ForumShowcase the best practices of water management in Korea to enhance interregionaland cross-border cooperation for sustainable water future.
⚫ SIWISIWI commits to support collective action on the Water Action Agenda, good
governance, Water for Climate, Source-to-Sea and cooperation
https://sdgs.un.org/partnerships/siwi-commits-support-collective-action-water-actionagenda-good-governance-water#SDGAction50772⚫ World Water Council
Joint WWC-TNC-INBO commitment on an “Action Plan for the implementation of the‘Water and Nature’ Declaration”:
https://sdgs.un.org/partnerships/action-plan-implementation-water-and-naturedeclaration
NoWNET Partner Organizations