Call for UN Science Body for Water
Published on by Water Network Research, Official research team of The Water Network in Government
The UN should set up a high-level expert body akin to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) to help modernise its response to water and sanitation issues, an expert panel says
In a final report, the UN Secretary-General’s Advisory Board on Water and Sanitation (UNSGAB) says the UN needs a scientific body similar to the IPCC for water and sanitation issues that are relevant to much of the post-2015 development agenda, including health, food production and climate change issues. 
“At the moment, the relevant international architecture is not fit for purpose” to monitor and improve water issues in a coordinated manner, says co-author Judith Rees, vice-chair of the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment at the London School of Economics in the United Kingdom. Rees is a member of UNSGAB, which has now reached the end of its 11-year mandate.
During the past decade, the board has written policy briefs and analyses of UN actions, encouraged better scientific input in policy decisions and worked to improve disaster risk reduction, the report says.
Source: Scidev
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