The 2020 edition of the United Nations World Water Development Report (WWDR 2020) is entitled ‘Water and Climate Change’. Climate change will affect the availability, quality and quantity of water for basic human needs, threatening the effective enjoyment of the human rights to water and sanitation for potentially billions of people. The alteration of the water cycle will also pose risks for energy production, food security, human health, economic development and poverty reduction, thus seriously jeopardizing the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals. The WWDR 2020 focuses on the challenges, opportunities and potential responses to climate change, in terms of adaptation, mitigation and improved resilience that can be addressed through improving water management.

On 28 May 2020, the Biosphere Reserve Alpi Ledrensi and Judicaria is organising, with the support of Punto 3, an online conversation on UNESCO opportunities from/for/with young people. It will be an informal discussion between UNESCO contacts and young people from youth associations.

On 28 May 2020, the International Sava River Basin Commission (ISRBC) jointly with the UNESCO Regional Bureau for Science and Culture for Europe and SHELTER partners will hold online the second Open Lab workshop in the framework of the SHELTER EU Horizon 2020 project (Sustainable Historic Environments hoListic reconstruction through Technological Enhancement and community based Resilience).

Within the overall scope of the project 570RER2000, “Design and testing of a multi-purpose transboundary groundwater monitoring network in the Extended Drin River Basin”, that aims at designing and testing a multi-purpose transboundary groundwater monitoring network in the Extended Drin River Basin (Albania and Montenegro) as well establishment of a systematic monitoring of groundwater resources state (quantity and quality) in the project focus area. The UNESCO Regional Bureau for Science and Culture in Europe invites the skilled companies to submit their offers for the provision of services for Water quality Monitoring in Albania at a location to be identified in coordination with the Albanian Geological Survey and near the Belaj, Velipoje-Qerret and Samrishit existing wells (as per the information’s given in the Annexes 1 and 2). The project is being implemented as a part of the overall Drin pilot project in Albania , related to groundwater monitoring in the transboundary aquifers located within the Skadar/Shkoder - Buna/Bojana area shared by Albania and Montenegro.

Possible Conversation #5: Francesca Thyssen-Bornemisza, Founder and Chair of Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary (TBA21), activist, philanthropist and patron of the arts, and Vladimir Ryabinin, Executive Secretary of the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC-UNESCO) and Assistant Director General, on "The ocean, an ally against the virus" Live on Instagram 12 May 2020 at 6pm CET