STRIVING FOR WATER SECURITY – AN OECD PERSPECTIVE Simon Buckle Head of Climate, Biodiversity and Water Division Environment Directorate OECD CEWP – Copenhagen 12 May 2015
Dec 19, 2015
STRIVING FOR WATER SECURITY – AN OECD PERSPECTIVE
Simon BuckleHead of Climate, Biodiversity and Water DivisionEnvironment DirectorateOECD
CEWP – Copenhagen12 May 2015
• 4 water risks
– Too little (scarcity
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– Too much (e.g.
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– Too polluted
– Risks to ecosystems
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Risks to water security
Managing risks
Source: OECD (2014), Water Security for Better Lives, OECD Publishing, Paris
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• 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 -