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HomeProceedings of the Workshop on Water-Energy-Food-Ecosystems (WEFE) Nexus and Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)
Brussels (Belgium) January 25-26, 2018
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In recent years, the Nexus concept has become widely used in the international development community, not least since the Bonn 2011 Nexus Conference. While the Millennium Development Goals did not include a goal on energy and had no focus on the WEFE Nexus, the global development policy context was significantly changed with the 2030 Agenda and its Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs, 2015), the Paris Agreement on Climate Change (2015), the Addis Ababa Action Agenda on Financing for Development (2015), the New Urban Agenda (2016), the New European Consensus on Development – “Our world, our dignity, our future” (2017) that underline the importance of policy coherence and integrated approaches across traditional development sectors. Current EU development policy provides a general frame and background that justifies a Nexus approach and methodology. Thus, the new European Consensus on Development: “Our World, our Dignity, our Future” (June 2017) emphasises an integrated approach to development and strongly supports the 2030 Agenda with its 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) that were adopted in September 2015 as a global framework for sustainable development action. The 2030 Agenda itself emphasises an integrated approach that can facilitate a Nexus methodology. As stated by the DEVCO Director General Stefano Manservisi in an interview on 14 June 2018 with DEVEX: “The SDGs are obliging us to work in an integrated way and not in silos”. DG DEVCO and JRC have been supporting works on the Nexus and originally addressed the water-energy-food security (WEF) Nexus, but it soon became clear that ecosystems represent essential conditions for ensuring the sustainability of the development solutions. Thus, Water, Energy, Food security rely on resources and services provided by healthy ecosystems, and, consequently, these should therefore be integrated into the NEXUS approach. In the following sections, the terms “WEFE Nexus” or “Nexus” in short refers to this concept unless otherwise stated. DG DEVCO and JRC jointly organised a consultation of international experts on the Water-Energy-Food-Ecosystems Nexus (”WEFE Nexus”) that was held in Brussels on 25-26 January 2018. This NEXUS experts’ consultation was oriented towards moving forward on the implementation and operationalisation of the Nexus approach with the objective of improving the sustainability of intervention projects and programmes involving water–energy–food security, and therefore, to contribute to simultaneous achievement of related SDGs. The work presented here outlined the importance and benefits of the WEFE Nexus as an approach and methodology for the implementation of the EU development policies and cooperation. It aimed at integrating governance and management across water, energy and food security areas while attempting to balance different uses of ecosystem resources and services.
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- Corporate author(s): Joint Research Centre (European Commission)
- Personal author(s): Biedler, M ; Dondeynaz, C ; Barchiesi, S ; Carmona-Moreno, C
- Themes: Development policy , Scientific and technical research
- Subject: conference proceedings , critical infrastructure security , decision-making , development policy , ecosystem , energy policy , EU policy , food production , food security , governance , renewable energy , sectoral planning , sustainable development , water resources , water treatment
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| ISSN | ISBN 978-92-79-99562-0 | DOI 10.2760/867467 | Catalogue number KJ-01-19-078-EN-N |
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