Programme

15 September – JDE62 and breakout rooms

From EU Blue Deal to the Water Resilience Strategy and beyond – 
European Civil Society contributions to the UN Water Conference

Draft Agenda

8.00 Arrival of participants and coffee

9.00 – 9.30 Opening session JDE 62 – Setting the EU and UN context

  • Alain Coheur, CCMI President, EESC EU Blue Deal Coordinator
  • Monika Hencsey, Director - Green Diplomacy and Multilateralism, DG ENV, European Commission
  • Dónal Cronin, Senior Advisor - Water Division, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, Ireland
  • Video message from Pedro Arrojo-Agudo, UN Special Rapporteur on the Human Rights to Water and Sanitation

9.40 – 10.40 Parallel breakout sessions I

 

  • Session 1 – JDE63 – Water for People

     

    Moderator: Cristina Fernández-Durán, Head of EU office, Oxfam

    Rapporteur: Manuel Garcia Salgado, EESC Member 

    Scene-setter: Péter Kovács, Water Director, Hungary

    Open discussion with the audience

     

  • Session 2 – JDE53 – Water for Prosperity

     

    Moderator: Christophe Yvetot, Representative to the EU, United Nations Industrial Development Organisation (UNIDO)

    Rapporteur: Hervé Jeannin, CCMI Delegate, co-rapporteur on the EESC contribution to the UN Water Conference

    Open discussion with the audience

     

  • Session 3 – JDE61 – Water for Planet

     

    Moderator: Patrizia Heidegger, Deputy Secretary General, European Environmental Bureau

    Rapporteur: Lea Appulo, CCMI Delegate

    Scene-setter: Dagmar Behrendt Kaljariková, International Relations Officer, DG ENV, European Commission

    Open discussion with the audience

10.40 -11.10 Coffee break

11.20 -12.20 Parallel breakout sessions II

 

  • Session 4 – JDE61 – Water for Cooperation

     

    Moderator: Louis Meuleman, Chair, Stakeholder Forum for a Sustainable Future

    Rapporteur: Josiane Willems, EESC Member

    Scene-setter: Turo Hjerppe, Ministerial Adviser, Ministry of the Environment, Finland

    Open discussion with the audience

     

  • Session 5 – JDE53 – Water in Multilateral Processes

     

    Moderator: Kala Vairavamoorthy, Executive Director, International Water Association (IWA) 

    Rapporteur: Dimitri Dimitriadis, CCMI Delegate

    Presentation of the opinion Gouvernance internationale de l'eau: Jean-Yves Lautridou & Lucien Chabason, Rapporteurs, Conseil Économique Social et Environnemental

    Open discussion with the audience 

     

  • Session 6 – JDE63 – Investments for Water

     

    Moderator: Oliver Loebel, Secretary General, EurEau 

    Rapporteur: Magdalena Rzeczkowska, EESC Member 

    Open discussion with the audience

12.30-13.00 Plenary session: key messages and contributions from the breakout sessions

  • Moderated by Durk Krol, Executive Director of Water Europe
  • Key takeaways from each of the sessions presented by the rapporteurs

13.00-13.10 Closing words

  • Marija Hanževački, Vice-President for Communication, EESC • André Viola, Rapporteur "Towards a resilient water management to fight climate crisis within an EU Blue Deal", Committee of the Regions
  • Henk Ovink, Executive Director, Global Commission on the Economics of Water
  • André Viola, Rapporteur "Towards a resilient water management to fight climate crisis within an EU Blue Deal", Committee of the Regions

13.15 Lunch and networking cocktail 

Interpretation: From 9.00 to 13.00 from/to English, French and Spanish, closing session in English only.