This year started with renewed hope: vaccines to stop a deadly pandemic and increased global cooperation to repair the economic damage. As governments around the world deploy trillions of dollars in stimulus spending we have a unique opportunity to build a better, more inclusive future to tackle an existential threat even bigger than COVID-19: climate change.
With less than 10 years to reach the UN Sustainable Development Goals there is one key investment which will get right to the heart of the problems we face, and which can help provide solutions: water. Water is the thread that links the diverse impacts of our health and climate crises. Changing the way that we value this critical resource will unlock its potential to bring about better health, reduced migration, better food security, and more effective climate action.
That is the aim of the Valuing Water Initiative (VWI), launched by Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte at the World Economic Forum in 2019. Since then, the...
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