Where and when?
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- Online and in Stockholm, Sweden
Stockholm World Water Week 2025
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World Water Week’s 2025 theme is ‘Water for Climate Action’. The Week will focus on addressing the linked emergencies of climate change, environment degradation and biodiversity loss. A Deltares delegation will be in attendance, including hosting and taking part in several sessions.
Overview of Deltares sessions
Boosting water resilience: integrated approaches to facilitate transformative changes
Sunday 24 August: 9:00 - 10:30, Room 27
To address the actual and future water and climate challenges we need to boost planning and actions towards climate-resilient and sustainable water management to achieve water security for all. This interactive workshop will gather experts, practitioners and policymakers to discuss cases to mainstream water resilience in adaptation planning.
Leveraging Water for Security and Resilience: Tilting Economies, Shifting Hydrologies
Sunday 24 August: 11:00 - 12:30, A4, Level 6
Climate and political shifts have intensified water as a hazard. Do we have strategies to respond to and prepare for political, hydrological, and financial shocks? This session explores how water resilience can prioritize trade-offs between institutions and countries through economic, ecological, and social policies despite expanding political and financial uncertainty.
Failing Forward: reshaping the narrative of water and climate projects
Tuesday 26 August: 14:00 - 15:30, Room 26, Level 2
This workshop explores the uncomfortable, often untold stories of struggles, dilemmas and systematic failures in project-based interventions for water management and climate adaptation. Rather than showcasing 'best practices', it creates safer spaces for conversations on how donor-driven, technocentric projects often fail and/or cause short-term, unanticipated impacts to ecologies and societies, particularly in the Global South.
By sharing personal experiences through storytelling, the workshop also invites participants to reimagine short-term, project-based interventions, often implemented under limiting and unjust funding criteria that can privilege Global North driven solutions and the engagements of 'formally' recognized water experts.
Just transitions: climate secure futures built on water secure foundations
Wednesday 27 August: 11:00 - 12:30, C1 Level 2
A ‘just transition’ is a common concept in the climate world- creating a social, environmental and economic future where everyone benefits and no-one is left behind. Water security is pivotal to climate justice- so how do we create just transitions to water security, upon which safe climate futures are built?
A Source to Sea dialogue: Shared values and coherent action along the water continuum
Wednesday 27 August: 11:00 - 12:30, C3 Level 2
This interactive session connects global policy and local action to build climate resilience from source to sea. Through lightning talks and a moderated panel debate with Q&A, panellists and participants will co-create solutions to scale up source to sea action. Outcomes will feed into the Source to Sea Action Platform, strengthening partnerships and follow-up action.
From Warning to Action: Ensuring inclusive and sustainable Early Warning
Wednesday 27 August: 16:00 - 17:30, C1 Level 2
As the donor landscape shifts, accelerating climate action and reducing disaster risk is more urgent than ever. This interactive session explores how to strengthen Flood Early Warning through social inclusion, water governance, and transboundary cooperation. Panellists and participants will co-create practical next steps to turn early warning into early action.
Global hydrological cycle, a common good requiring systemic cooperation
Thursday 28 August: 14:00 - 15:30, A2, Level 6
The session highlights the Global Commission on the Economics of Water’s call to govern the hydrological cycle as a global common good. It emphasizes systemic water and land-use management—including Green Water—and the need for scientific, practical, and policy collaboration to restore the full water cycle and inform 2026 UN Water conference and post-2030 and agendas.
Deltares delegation
- Toon Segeren, Director International at Deltares
- Harm Duel, strategic advisor water resources management
- Shahnoor Hassan, expert water governance, planning and politics of development
- Sonja Pans, senior advisor environment and climate, IPDC Secretary
- Audrey Legat, senior advisor water governance and international water cooperation, global development lead
- Martijn Kwant, advisor Flood Early Warning and Impact Forecasting
- Åse Johannessen, senior adviser systems ecology