Recently, Ivory Coast became the 10th African country to sign the UN Water Convention.
UNECE Water Convention
About: The Convention on the Protection and Use of Transboundary Watercourses and International Lakes (Water Convention) is an international environmental agreement and one of the five environmental treaties negotiated by UNECE.
Adoption: It was adopted in Helsinki in 1992 and came into effect in 1996.
Requirements for Parties: Parties must prevent, control, and reduce transboundary impact, use transboundary waters reasonably and equitably, and ensure their sustainable management.
Cooperation: Parties sharing transboundary waters must cooperate by entering into specific agreements and establishing joint bodies.
Framework Agreement: The Convention does not replace bilateral and multilateral agreements for specific basins or aquifers but encourages their establishment, implementation, and further development.
Significance: The Water Convention is a powerful tool to promote and operationalize the achievement of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and its SDGs.
It directly supports implementation of target 6.5, which requests all countries to implement integrated water resources management, including through transboundary cooperation, as appropriate.
The Convention and its programme of work are also relevant for other SDGs, such as all the other targets of goal, but also: goals 2, 7, 13, 15, 16, 17 and target 11.5.
Expansion: The Convention was originally negotiated as a regional framework for the pan-European region. Following an amendment procedure, since March 2016 all UN Member States can accede to it
United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE)
About: It was established on March 28, 1947, and is one of the five regional commissions under the jurisdiction of the United Nations Economic and Social Council.
Its headquarters are located in Geneva, Switzerland.
Aim: To promote economic cooperation and integration among its member states.
Members: The commission consists of 56 member states, primarily from Europe, with several from outside the region. Its transcontinental Eurasian and non-European members include Armenia, Azerbaijan, Canada, Georgia, Israel, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, the Russian Federation, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, the USA, and Uzbekistan.
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