Zaragoza Conference Intensifies Dialogue

15 January 2015

"2015 is an important year. An important year for disaster risk reduction, an important year for climate and an important year for water," said the UN-Water Chair, Michel Jarraud in his welcome video message to the 300 participants at the UN-Water Annual International Zaragoza Conference.

As United Nations entities and programmes, experts, representatives of the business community, governmental and non-governmental organizations meet from 15 to 17 January in Zaragoza, Spain, the dialogue intensifies around water and sustainable development.

As 2015, is the last year of the International Decade for Action ‘Water for Life’ participants are also taking stock of and learning from achievements as well as planning the next steps. Watch the webcast live

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Summary

The Zaragoza Conference focused on the tools for implementation stated in the outcome document of the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development, held in Rio de Janeiro from 20 to 22 June 2012, entitled “The future we want”, which includes finance, technology and capacity building, adding the institutional and policy dimensions.