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UNEP Event
Urgent Call to Save Our Lakes: Promoting a Global Agenda for Sustainable Lake Management in Support of World Lake Day
21 May 2024
Bali, Indonesia
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Date: 21 May 2024
Time: 2:50-4:20PM
Location: Bali Nusa Dua Convention Centre, Bali Indonesia
Event Overview:
Freshwater is our most important natural resource; essential for human health, well-being, and socioeconomic development, and for protecting biodiversity and other life supporting ecosystem services upon which humanity depends.
Only about 1% of all the freshwater on the Earth's surface exists in liquid form, whereas lakes supply around 87% of the liquid surface freshwater. Lakes provide a significant source of ecosystem services, including the provision of water for human consumption, health, food, and renewable energy; regulate services for the food cycle, water purification, biodiversity, and climate; and enable the pursuit of recreational and traditional activities.
Despite their importance, many of the world's lakes are in crisis. The state of freshwater lakes’ volume has been reported to be declining by half, along with lakes’ water quality due to the enormous pressure from a combination of excessive water use, environmentally unfriendly use of the catchment/basin, and the climate crisis, which in turn is threatening human health, biodiversity and the environment, and causing water-related disasters such as flood, drought, and landslide.
At the policy level, some national freshwater policies are fragmented, with insufficient funding, slow implementation, and insufficient integration of environmental objectives into sectoral policies.
More Information:
The main objective of the High-level Panel is to highlight and assemble ideas to address lakes properly and adequately in the global water agenda and embodied in collaborative efforts by the international community. This high-level panel discussion aims to cover the following topics:
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Appropriate targets and indicators of the global agenda and collaborative effort;
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Pathways of the effort;
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Bring political commitments and other actions to increase the momentum of World Lake Day to highlight the importance of implementing Sustainable Lake Management
Panelists include:
Mr. Tri Tharyat, Director General of Multilateral Cooperation, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Republic of Indonesia
Prof. Dr. Siti Nurbaya Bakar, Minister of Environment and Forestry, Republic of Indonesia
Dr. Susan Gardner, Director Ecosystems Division, United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)
Dr. David Cooper, Acting Executive Secretary of the Convention on Biological Diversity
Dr. Musonda Mumba, Secretary General of the Convention on Wetlands
Dr. Kazuhiko Takemoto, President of the International Lake Environment Committee Foundation (ILEC)
Mr. Taizo Mikazuk, Governor of Shiga Prefecture, Japan
Ms. Dyah Murtiningsih, Directorate General of Watershed Management and Forest Rehabilitation, Ministry of Environment and Forestry, Republic of Indonesia
Mr. Bob Arthur Lombogia, Directorate General of Water Resources, Ministry of Public Works and Housing, Republic of Indonesia
Mr. Nana Sudjana AS, Ex-Commissioner General of the Indonesian Police, Acting Governor of Central Java Province, Indonesia
Dr. Efransjah, Senior Adviser to the Minister of Environment and Forestry, Indonesia
Dr. Ida Bagus Putera Parthama, Executive Chair of the National Watershed Forum, Indonesia
