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Csaba\u00a0K\u0151r\u00f6si<\/em>,<\/em> President of the 77th<\/sup> session of the General Assembly<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n —-<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n Opening plenary of the 2023 Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ Water Conference <\/strong><\/p>\n 22 March 2023 <\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n [As delivered multilingual version]<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n \n Your Majesty, King Willem-Alexander,<\/p>\n Your Excellency President Emomali Rahmon, thank you for gathering us here to discuss our most precious, yet undervalued and misunderstood resource: water.<\/p>\n Distinguished Heads of State and Governments,<\/p>\n Mr. Secretary-General,<\/p>\n Excellencies,<\/p>\n Water friends,<\/p>\n At the midpoint of the sustainable development agenda, we are at a watershed moment, as we heard this morning already.<\/p>\n We know that we cannot fulfil our promise of sustainability, economic stability and global well-being by speeding up conventional solutions.<\/p>\n We neither have enough time nor planet. There is simply not enough fresh water left anymore. Water that flows freely in rivers, across boundaries and that is distributed over the whole globe in the form of atmospheric rivers \u2013 is now severely lacking.<\/p>\n Le cycle de l\u2019eau nous unit tous. C\u2019est, de fait, un bien public mondial. L\u2019eau qui pleut en Europe aujourd\u2019hui coulait le long des rivi\u00e8res Africaines le mois dernier. L\u2019eau pomp\u00e9e des puits en Am\u00e9rique du Sud aujourd\u2019hui est la fonte des glaciers andins, cr\u00e9\u00e9e lorsque les premi\u00e8res esp\u00e8ces humaines se sont install\u00e9s sur le continent.<\/p>\n (French translation: The water cycle unites us all. It is, de facto, a global common good. Water that rains in Europe today was flowing down African rivers last month. Water that is pumped up from wells in South America today is melted Andean glaciers, created when the first human species moved into the continent.)<\/em><\/p>\n The water that makes 60% of me, of you all as you sit here in this moment, has been part of other living bodies at least 10 times over the course of the millennia.<\/p>\n There is no doubt: we are water, we don\u2019t fully own water, we share it in space and through time.<\/p>\n We must acknowledge the fact that water is a global common good and adjust policy, legislation, and financing accordingly.<\/p>\n To work in favor of people and planet, not procrastination and profit. 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To put it bluntly: the three forms of water disasters have created a human disaster. Too much water takes lives, too little water hinders dignified human development, too dirty a water threatens our health and the nature we are part of.)<\/em><\/p>\n The solution is in our hands. It is not rocket science. A cooperative water-secure future starts with political will, economic intelligence, and cultural tolerance and acceptance. The acknowledgement of what led us to the water crisis and the understanding of the integrated nature of the solutions that we need.<\/p>\n What do we need to succeed?<\/p>\n We need to devise a common financial culture that is water-, climate-, and biodiversity-smart.<\/p>\n Financing that benefits everybody, from the indigenous and marginalized to the lucky ones who were born to wealthy parents.<\/p>\n We urgently need to stop wasting water. Circularity must be our priority, not extracting ever more.<\/p>\n We must devise integrated land-use, water and climate policies that help us to make people and nature resilient, and feed the ever-growing hunger worldwide.<\/p>\n Integrated policies that allow us to benefit from water as a lever of climate mitigation and adaptation. Integrated policies at local, national and global levels that will foster cooperation.\u00a0<\/p>\n We need to guarantee access to safe drinking water and sanitation to all. This is a human right and a question of dignity.\u00a0<\/p>\n We can work together to empower states and stakeholders through the global water information system that is our life insurance for resolving the dilemma of water availability, demand and storage.<\/p>\n \u0646\u064e\u062d\u0646\u064f \u0628\u0650\u062d\u0627\u062c\u064e\u0629 \u0644\u0644\u0627\u062a\u0651\u0641\u0627\u0642 \u0639\u0644\u0649 \u0645\u064a\u062b\u0627\u0642 \u062a\u0639\u0644\u064a\u0645\u064a \u064a\u064f\u0624\u0651\u0643\u0650\u062f \u0639\u0644\u0649 \u0623\u0646\u0651\u064e \u0644\u062f\u064a\u0646\u0627 \u0627\u0644\u0639\u0650\u0644\u0652\u0645\u064e \u0648\u0627\u0644\u0645\u064e\u0639\u0631\u0650\u0641\u064e\u0629 \u0648\u0627\u0644\u062d\u0650\u0643\u0652\u0645\u064e\u0629\u060c \u0628\u0627\u0644\u0625\u0636\u0627\u0641\u0629 \u0625\u0644\u0649 \u0622\u0644\u0651\u064a\u0629 \u062a\u064e\u0641\u0643\u064a\u0631 \u062c\u062f\u064a\u062f\u0629 \u062a\u064f\u062a\u0650\u064a\u062d \u0644\u0646\u0627 \u0627\u0628\u0652\u062a\u0650\u0643\u0627\u0631 \u0648\u062a\u064e\u0646\u0641\u064a\u0630 \u0623\u064e\u062c\u064e\u0646\u062f\u064e\u0629 \u0645\u064f\u062a\u0643\u0627\u0645\u0650\u0644\u0629 \u0644\u0650\u0644\u0645\u0650\u064a\u0627\u0647 \u0648\u0627\u0644\u0645\u064e\u0646\u0627\u062e \u0648\u0627\u0644\u0637\u0627\u0642\u0629 \u0648\u0627\u0644\u063a\u0650\u0630\u0627\u0621<\/p>\n (Arabic translation: We need to agree on an education pact to make sure we have the knowledge, wisdom and new way of thinking, to devise and implement an integrated water, climate, energy and food agenda.)<\/em><\/p>\n We need to be inclusive and innovative.<\/p>\n We need to assemble legislative and enforcing public governance and private sector ingenuity.<\/p>\n Stakeholders of diverse talents, ages and cultures can synergize the change we need so urgently.<\/p>\n It must be both a change of mind and heart.<\/p>\n We need to be bold.<\/p>\n We can agree on gamechangers.<\/p>\n Gamechangers that are seeds to a different, more fair, inclusive, sustainable, and resilient water future for all.<\/p>\n Gamechangers that reach beyond water and facilitate cooperation and action on a global agenda of transformation in socio-economic development, as well as in environmental sustainability and health.<\/p>\n Gamechangers that will help us to shift from reactive to proactive water solutions.<\/p>\n Solutions that will support the transformation from increasing insecurity to increasing predictability and more stability.<\/p>\n Let me finish with an invitation: This conference is not a venue to negotiate positions, advantages, and compromise. I invite you to deliberate solutions that are science-based, sustainable, pragmatic and in solidarity. Solutions that will flow into the Water Action Agenda. For a better tomorrow, for all.<\/p>\n The world is watching us.<\/p>\n The expectations are high.<\/p>\n The forthcoming three days are crucial, and the following months and years of delivery will be determining.<\/p>\n This chance is here and now.<\/p>\n We may not have another.<\/p>\n Thank you very much.<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Csaba\u00a0K\u0151r\u00f6si, President of the 77th session of the General Assembly —- Opening plenary of the 2023 Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ Water Conference 22 March 2023 [As delivered multilingual version] Your Majesty, King Willem-Alexander, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":361,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"on","_et_pb_old_content":" Csaba\u00a0K\u0151r\u00f6si<\/em>,<\/i>\u00a0President of the 77th<\/sup>\u00a0session of the General Assembly<\/b><\/b><\/p>\r\n ----<\/b><\/b><\/p>\r\n Second informal consultations convened by the co-facilitators on the<\/span><\/b>\u00a0<\/span>political declaration to be adopted by the SDG Summit in September 2023<\/span><\/b>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n 16 March 2023<\/b><\/b><\/p>\r\n\u00a0\r\n\r\n\u00a0\r\n\r\nExcellencies, esteemed colleagues,\r\n\r\nI thank the co-facilitators, Ambassador Alya Ahmed Saif Al-Thani of Qatar and Ambassador Fergal Mythen of Ireland for the invitation.\r\n\r\nFergal, happy St. Patrick\u2019s Day to you!\r\n\r\nDear Alya and Fergal, I am sincerely grateful to you for your work leading this process, and in particular the preparation of the elements paper circulated to MS on 28 February.\r\n\r\nThis paper is a good basis to start the discussion.\r\n\r\nI fully agree with the co-facilitators\u2019 call for the political declaration to be a consensual, concise, ambitious, action-oriented and transformative document.\r\n\r\nI have been particularly pleased by their emphasis on the need to have an ambitious and transformative outcome at the Summit.\r\n\r\nI am sure that, if we want to have such an outcome, we need transformative elements. We have to tell the world why and how the second half of the SDG implementation period will be more impactful and our pledges more credible.\r\n\r\nWe may think of what has been missing from the current implementation and reporting. If you wish, where are the Gamechangers \u2013 that will make our commitments more credible.\r\n\r\nI have in mind key building blocks such as \u201cBeyond GDP\u201d or the creation of the scientific evaluation system of the SDGs\u2019 implementation.\r\n\r\n\u201cBeyond GDP\u201d to measure the real transformation for which we had no real tool until now and Scientific Validation System\u00a0to make the data comparable and validate the aggregated impacts.\r\n\r\nI am very much encouraged by the positive feedback from Member States and various stakeholders on these proposals.\r\n\r\nLikewise, it will be useful and helpful to take into consideration the discussions and commitments that emanated or will, hopefully, emanate from several processes, such as the Transforming Education Summit, COP27, COP 15, the LDC5 Conference, the Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ Water Conference, the Sendai Framework Mid-Term Review, the HLPF, and FfD.\r\n\r\nI am sure that the Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ Water Conference as well as other upcoming meetings and ongoing processes will result in game-changers that can also find their place in the political declaration of the SDG Summit.\r\n\r\nThe SDG Summit will constitute the mid-point review of the implementation of the 17 Goals.\r\n\r\nMy vision for the SDG Summit is one of a meeting that serves to produce a quality change in our efforts to accelerate implementation at all levels.\r\n\r\nA quantum leap, if you wish.\r\n\r\nAn outcome to turbocharge implementation.\r\n\r\nFor that to happen, we need to go beyond repeating well-known affirmations, set out bold steps and demonstrate leadership at this critical time.\r\n\r\nThe outcome will provide guidance to many international platforms. organisations, including development, banks.\r\n\r\nLadies and gentlemen,\r\n\r\nThe stakes are huge. The real transformation is at stake.\r\n\r\nNot necessarily the relocation of some existing resources, not only, but to recalibrate the system of priorities and use the cooperation channels, national plans and resources accordingly.\r\n\r\nBefore the summit, we have to raise the level of transparency and honesty to review the lessons learnt from the past VNRs and look at where we can unlock new commitments, find new tools, and adopt innovative policies based on scientific inputs.\r\n\r\nI am greatly encouraged by the briefing of the Independent Group of Scientists on GSDR that took place on 7 February as a part of the first GA informal plenary briefing on \u201cScience-based Evidence in Support of the Sustainable Solutions\u201d.\r\n\r\nThe briefing from the IGS gave us a bedrock of scientific knowledge, a basis for unfolding this crucial negotiation process \u2013 and I would very much like to continue in this spirit.\r\n\r\nThat is why the second scientific informal plenary briefing will focus on \u201cBeyond GDP\u201d, \u201cFood Security and Sustainability Transformation\u201d and \u201cA Scientific Support System for the Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ\u201d.\r\n\r\nIt will take place on 12 April at 10am in the Trusteeship Council Chamber.\r\n\r\nI invite you all to join us there.\r\n\r\nAs part of my commitment to hear from the civil society and motivate them to bring their contributions to the SDG Summit, I will convene my second Town Hall meeting with CSOs on 20 April at 10am.\r\n\r\nThe focus of this townhall will be on the need for accelerated progress towards the achievement of the SDGs by 2030.\r\n\r\nLet me thank the co-facilitators for kindly agreeing to participate in this Town Hall meeting.\r\n\r\nDear Friends,\r\n\r\nI wish you a fruitful discussion today and count on your support to ensure that we have a truly ambitious outcome.\r\n\r\nAn outcome that really helps us jointly transform the world.\r\n\r\nI thank you.\r\n\r\n\u00a0","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[111],"tags":[575,561,562],"class_list":["post-251657","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-statements","tag-ceo-roundtable-discussion-on-a-gender-equal-future-of-work-in-the-digital-age","tag-commission-on-the-status-of-women","tag-csw","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"yoast_head":"\n