Bordeaux, France – March 8, 2024 – Dilek Kaya, Seda Karakaya & Enes Kılıç
The World Impact Summit 2024, a forum dedicated to the future of global water resources, kicked off today in Bordeaux. Convening key economic, environmental, and public policy stakeholders, the summit provides a vital platform to advance sustainable and resilient water management solutions.
Against the backdrop of climate change and mounting environmental challenges, the conference’s opening session highlighted the urgent need for action. Experts emphasized a range of measures, from promoting water-use efficiency to implementing innovative storage and optimization strategies. The importance of water audits in both summer and winter months was underscored, with projections of enhanced urban water resilience.
Sustainability and resilience take center stage
The summit stressed the critical need for economic actors to reshape business models for water and sanitation service resilience. The importance of community collaboration and engagement was highlighted, with a call to tailor solutions to specific community needs and account for regional variations.
The newly introduced European directive on sustainability reporting was acknowledged as a potential challenge for businesses, underscoring the importance of adaptation efforts. Collaboration and dialogue were identified as key to mitigating environmental impacts and embracing sustainability principles.
A call to action for global water security
By focusing on water sustainability and resilience, the World Impact Summit 2024 fosters vital collaboration among communities to tackle environmental and climate challenges. The summit’s clarion call resonates with the global community, urging collective action to bequeath a more sustainable world to future generations. Such events are of paramount importance in safeguarding water resources for the benefit of present and future generations.
Former US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and former French President F. Hollande are also scheduled to address the summit.
