News and Stories

Jul 8, 2020

Time for Stockholm Junior Water Prize 2020

Jul 7, 2020

Welcome to WWWeek At Home!

Feature.Jul 6, 2020

Building back better, greener, and bluer through water

SIWI is participating in the highly anticipated, virtual edition of the United Nations High-Level Political Forum for Sustainable Development (HLPF) from Tuesday, 7 July, to Thursday, 16 July 2020

News.Jul 1, 2020

Human rights at stake in planned hydropower scheme

New study analyses the human rights and obligations at stake in the case of a planned hydropower scheme, the Pancheshwar Multipurpose Project. Dams can provide clean, renewable energy, irrigation opportunities for improved food security, and reduced risk of devastating floods, but come at a cost.

Feature.Jun 24, 2020

It’s time to change how we think about food

Among growing fears of a global hunger pandemic, the weaknesses in the international food system have been laid bare. For the world to emerge more resilient after Covid-19 we must change how we think about food and recognize the close links between nutrition, health, water and human behaviour.

News.Jun 22, 2020

Building water governance capacity for water security

With mounting pressure on the world’s water resources, good water governance is increasingly seen as key to a sustainable future. To meet the growing demand for capacity in this field, SIWI is developing new training programmes with local stakeholders to improve water security.

News.Jun 18, 2020

S2S Marine Litter Framework presented as solution on World Oceans Day

The PREVENT Waste Alliance invited Stockholm International Water Institute (SIWI) to present solutions for preventing plastic pollution to their members in recognition of World Oceans Day.

News.Jun 11, 2020

Hästgödselns kretslopp

Under ett webbinarium för Åtgärdssamordnare i projektet LEVA på ämnet hästar och övergödning lyftes flertalet intressanta perspektiv. Seminariet hölls i digitalt format den 10e juni och anordnades av SIWI och Race For The Baltic, i samarbete med Havs- och vattenmyndigheten (HaV).  Hästar är en viktig del av det svenska samhället, både socialt, kulturellt och ekonomiskt. Sveriges 355 500 hästar producerar årligen 2,7 miljoner ton gödsel, vilket innehåller värdefulla näringsämnen för växter, men som kan ha en negativ påverkan på våra vattendrag när det inte [ ]

News.Jun 11, 2020

People and Planet: Inclusive partnerships towards the SDG Agenda

In a new report, SIWI together with UNEP, Sida and the Swedish Environmental Protection Agency, highlight the role of building and supporting inclusive and innovative partnerships to achieve the 2030 Agenda, with a focus on faith-based actors and organizations.

News.Jun 8, 2020

Havens välbefinnande

På webbinariet som SIWI anordnade den 27 maj diskuterades ”källa-till-hav-ansatsen” utifrån både ett nationellt och ett internationellt perspektiv.   Helen Ågren, Sveriges havsambassadör, resonerade kring inriktningen på Sveriges breda internationella havsarbete och framtida behov inom området. Utgångspunkten för arbetet är de globala mål och överenskommelser som Sverige har undertecknat, men dessa är ej tillräckliga utan måste utvecklas och förbättras. Helen [ ]

News.Jun 8, 2020

Ur ett vattenperspektiv

Som ett delmoment i Stockholm Universitets kandidatprogram i global utveckling tog SIWI emot 32 studenter på ett webinarium den 8 maj 2020. I kandidatprogrammet deltar studenterna i en seminarieserie vid namn “Global Agenda”, inom vilken de träffar representanter från olika organisationer och företag som arbetar med frågor relaterade till global utveckling. Det var inom temat [ ]

News.Jun 4, 2020

Diversity in both nature and knowledge

To meet global climate and water-related challenges, we need to look beyond western-centric perspectives on nature and on management of resources, writes SIWI’s Kristina Johansson in this blog post. World Environment Day 2020, celebrated on 5 June, reminds us of the importance of biodiversity.

News.Jun 1, 2020

Looking through the lens of water

As part of Stockholm University’s Bachelor’s Programme in Global Development, SIWI hosted 32 students through a webinar on 8 May 2020. Within the Bachelor’s Programme, the students are enrolled in a seminar series called “Global Agenda” in which they meet with representatives from different organizations and companies that work with issues related to global development. Under [ ]

News.May 25, 2020

From Virtual Jobs to Sustainable Livelihoods: Investing in Soil and Water Management

Despite the devastating impacts of the Covid-19 pandemic, investing in African soil and water management is more important than ever. This was the key message from a SIWI-hosted webinar to launch a report that demonstrates how Africa could become less dependent on food imports.