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40th WEDC International Conference Date 24 – 28 July, 2017 Location: Loughborough University, UK Theme: Local Action with International Cooperation to Improve and Sustain Water, Sanitation and Hygiene Services Papers should focus on innovations, experience, ideas and learning contributing to further thinking about CLTS and other community-wide behaviour change approaches. We are most interested on papers that focus on: • Implementing CLTS at scale • How CLTS programming has ensured equity and inclusion • Challenges to and lessons learnt using CLTS • Ways of linking CLTS to other programming • Using CLTS in different contexts Building learning into CLTS programmes Contact E-Mail: [email protected] Tel: +44 (0)1273 606261; Fax: +44 (0)1273 621202 2nd International Resource Recovery Conference Dates: 5–9 August 2017 Location: New York, New York USA The 2nd International Resource Recovery Conference will host researchers, industry representatives and financial specialists involved in resource recovery from “waste” streams. The overarching goal of the conference is to present an updated outlook of resource, and energy recovery from such “waste” streams and to design better “pipelines” for the manufacture and use of recovered products. Website: https://www.irrc2017.org/about World Water Week in Stockholm 27 August – 1 September 2017 World Water Week in Stockholm is the annual focal point for the global water issues. It is organized by SIWI. In 2017, the World Water Week will address the theme “water and waste – reduce and reuse”. In 2016, over 3,200 individuals and around the world 330 convening organizations from 130 countries participated in the Week. Experts, practitioners, decision makers, business innovators and young professionals from a range of sectors and countries come to Stockholm to network, exchange ideas, foster new thinking and develop solutions to the most pressing water related challenges of today. We Believe water is key to our future prosperity, and that together, we can achieve a water wise world. Contact Ms. Annie Strand Email: [email protected] Water Business Forum 2017 - Second Edition Dates: 20 – 23 September, 2017 Location : Gyeongju HICO Organized by : Co-hosted by the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport (MoLIT), the Ministry of Environment (ME), Daegu Metropolitan City, Gyeongsangbuk-Do Province and K-water of the Republic of Korea. The second edition of WBF 2017 will be held in the Korea International Water Week 2017 (KIWW 2017) Contact e-mail : [email protected] Event website : http://www.kiww.org/ UNFCCC COP 23 Dates: 6-17 November 2017 Location: Bonn, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany The 23rd session of the Conference of the Parties (COP 23) to the UN Convention on Cli mate Change (UNFCCC) will be organized by Fiji and hosted at the headquarters of the UNFCCC Secretariat in Bonn, Germany. Contact: UNFCCC Secretariat Phone: (49-228) 815-1000 fax: (49-228) 815-1999 e-mail: [email protected] www: http://unfccc.int/meetings/unfccc_calendar/ items/2655.php?year=2017 Shaping Our Water Future World Water Congress & Exhibition 2018 16 – 21 SEPTEMBER 2018 / TOKYO / JAPAN The World Water Congress & Exhibition 2018 (WWCE 2018) is one of the world’s largest and most important water congresses, attracting over 5,000 participants from all over the world. The WWCE previous editions took place in e.g. Beijing, Vienna, Montreal, Busan, Lisbon and Brisbane. The 2018 edition will be held in Tokyo, Japan. Match+ is responsible for the full set up and management of the Exhibition component, as well as the integration of this in the entire event. Match+ is partner in the WWCE since the edition in 2004 (Marrakech), onwards. Website: http://www.iwa-network.org/news/tokyo- 2018-first-announcement/ Africa Water, Sanitation & Hygiene • July - August 2017 23