Webinars Fri 13th June 2014 Thurs 20th June 2014 Time to be confirmed (GMT+2 : Paris) Time to be confirmed (GMT+2 : Paris) Presentation made by Jean-Daniel Rinaudo, BRGM, FR. Presentation made by Jochem Kial, IGB, DE. TO REGISTER: contact [email protected] or [email protected]. For more information visit the website www.iwrm-net.eu. Previous presentations will be put online and updates regarding dates and times will be made available via the website. Still to come: IWRM-net SCP final workshop and science-policy interface event. Brussels, September 2014 Water Cap and Trade IMPACT Water Market scenarios for Southern Europe: new solutions for dealing with water scarcity and drought risk. (France, Italy, Spain) http://www.capandtrade.acteon-environment.eu/ home Structural water deficits and drought risk are expected to become more frequent, putting at stake the current mechanisms of water management and allocation. The establishment of water markets or systems of tradable abstraction quotas could represent a possible alternative. The use of a “cap and trade” approach could simultaneously guarantee environmental protection as required by the Water Framework directive and enhance flexibility in allocation to maximize water use utility and possibly reducing conflicts. could be proposed for Southern Europe? The basic idea of the IMPACT project is to assess the relative importance of anthropogenic pressures at different spatial scales, to identify the main bottlenecks for river biota, and to answer the following research questions: • What can be expected from local reach-scale restoration given the remaining pressures at larger spatial • How important are discharge changes due to Climate Change compared to other anthropogenic pressures? • Will Climate Change have a major influence on natural reference conditions?