CGIAR Research Program on Water, Land and Ecosystems (WLE)

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN (FAO) and partners are conducting online consultations on how “water accounting” can be used to address water scarcity. WLE, IWMI and other partners helped develop the water accounting methodology known as WA+, based on global-scale datasets in the public domain.

The International Council for Science (ICSU) organized a side event at the High-Level Political Forum (HLPF) to present its recently launched publication, titled ‘A Guide to SDG Interactions: From Science to Implementation.’ Claudia Ringler of WLE and the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) contributed to the publication and was present at the event. The ICSU publication is based on the work of a consortium of scientific research organizations that applied a seven-point scale to quantify synergies and conflicts among the SDGs and their targets.