Amsterdam International Water Week 2021

Monique Bekkenutte, Nupur Jain, Eline Anvik

Blue-Green deals with Integrated Solutions

The sixth edition of the Amsterdam International Water Week (AIWW), which takes place on the second till fifth of November, is a global movement towards a sustainable water environment. This biennial event gathers experts from cities, industries, and utilities from all over the world to combine real-life water cases with innovative solutions. And so creating a circular and resilient water environment in high-density living areas. Changing the way we look at our water-related risks – finding new approaches – is something that cannot be achieved overnight. Case owners, experts, suppliers, and investors signing an Amsterdam Agreement, pledge to continue their work in the coming years until they have reached their goals, in order to achieve real breakthroughs.

The central theme is Blue-Green deals with integrated solutions, including the four sub-themes: Clean Water and Ecosystem Restoration, Reuse, Recycle and Recover, Risk and Resilience and Community engagement and inter-sectoral collaboration. Click on 'more information' for further explanation of the central theme and sub-themes.

In this collection you will find the abstracts submitted via the Call for Abstract. You can also watch the recordings of the various programs within the AIWW 2021.

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AIWW 2021 theme is aligned with global blue-green deals like European Union’s Green Deal programme, Green New Deal (GND), US environmental resolution, EU-China Summit 2020 resolutions on de-carbonization and green recovery, World Bank Green Bond programme and Blue economy programme. The main theme provides a push to accelerate the achievement of UN-SDG Global Agenda 2030 goals.

The sub-themes are based on the main theme AIWW 2021 ‘Blue green deals with integration solutions’ and the AIWW Horizon 2030 with a focus on SDG’s with special focus on 2 (Zero Hunger), 6 (Clean Water & Sanitation), 9 (Industry, Innovation & Infrastructure), 11 (Sustainable Cities & Communities) and 13 (Climate Action). The theme and sub-themes for AIWW 2021 recognize the inter-connectivity of water challenges and solutions with other sectors.

Underlying sub-themes concretize the agenda for AIWW 2021 focusing on three pillars for catalyzing change: social, technical and ecological.

There are three sub-themes and 3 cross-cutting topics which are enablers for sustainable change.

Subthemes include: