First International Environment Forum for Basin Organizations - Freshwater Governance Beyond Rio + 20: Meeting the Sustainability Challenge

The Conference will bring together key stakeholders in the management of transboundary basins, such as heads of basin organizations and country heads of delegations to basin organizations, UN Agencies and other relevant international institutions, international fi nancial institutions, MEA Secretariats, civil society and academia. The Ministerial segment will gather Ministers of Environment and Water Resources as well as high level civil servants especially involved in basin organizations’ ministerial commissions.

The forum is organized into four interrelated themes:

1. Ecosystems and Biodiversity Conservation:

2. Adapting to Climate Change:

3. Environmental Laws and Regulations: 

4.  Institutional Challenges: