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Event Nexus 2014: Water, Food, Climate and Energy Conference

The Water Institute at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill will host the Nexus 2014: Water, Food, Climate and Energy Conference on March 3-7, 2014. The Conference will bring together researchers and practitioners working in government, civil society and business, focusing on the nexus approach. Building on the Water, Food and Energy Nexus Conference held in Bonn, Germany in 2011, this conference aims to address the connected, but distinct, relationships between water, food, climate, energy, security, sustainability and development.

Deadline: 1st November 2013.

More Information is available at the conference website.

Announcements

Adnan Amin, Director General International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA), to speak at the conference

“Renewable energy plays a crucial role in addressing the trade-offs between resources to meet increasing demand without compromising sustainability. This conference provides an opportunity to discuss cross-sectoral approaches for sustainable growth that are now emerging at the forefront of science and policy discussions.” — Adnan Amin

Please see the Plenary Speakers page for more information.

Plenary Sessions

  • Urban Challenges of the Nexus: Local and Global perspectives
  • Nexus perspectives: Water, Energy and Climate
  • Nexus perspectives: Water, Food and Climate
  • Entrepreneurial Environmentalism and Development
  • Nexus Corporate Stewardship: How business is improving resource use
  • Natural Resource Security for People: Water, Food and Energy
  • Financing the Nexus: policy and practice
  • Learning from the past, building a new future: Nexus Scientific Research

Conference Participants Will Aim to:

  • Learn from relevant case studies & examine cutting-edge research
  • Identify future research areas
  • Debate emerging solutions
  • Identify how science can inform policy processes
  • Build new, or strengthen, existing networks
  • Launch the Nexus Academic-Practitioner Network
  • Input to the UN Sustainable Development Goals process

Contact information Katie Donohue at the Water Institute (email: nexus@unc.edu ; donohuek@email.unc.edu)
Event type Conference
File link http://nexusconference.web.unc.edu/
Subject(s) AGRICULTURE , DRINKING WATER , DRINKING WATER AND SANITATION : COMMON PROCESSES OF PURIFICATION AND TREATMENT , ENERGY , FINANCE-ECONOMY , HEALTH - HYGIENE - PATHOGENIC MICROORGANISM , HYDRAULICS - HYDROLOGY , INDUSTRY , INFORMATION - COMPUTER SCIENCES , INFRASTRUCTURES , METHTODOLOGY - STATISTICS - DECISION AID , NATURAL MEDIUM , POLICY-WATER POLICY AND WATER MANAGEMENT , RISKS AND CLIMATOLOGY , TOURISM - SPORT - HOBBIES , WATER DEMAND
Relation http://nexusconference.web.unc.edu/submission-guidelines/
Geographical coverage United States,
Address illiam and Ida Friday Center for Continuing Education,
Organizer The Water Institute at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill: at 100 Friday Center Drive, Chapel Hill, NC 27517, approximately three miles east of the UNC-Chapel Hill campus, just off Highway 54 East (Raleigh Road). The Center is a short distance from Interstate 40 (from Raleigh, I-40 exit 273A; from Greensboro, I-40 exit 273).
Target audience International
Period [03/03/2014 - 07/03/2014]
Status Confirmed
Working language(s) ENGLISH
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