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T1 Science Policy Bridges Over Troubled Waters: Making Science Deliver Greater Impacts in Shared Water Systems - Synthesis Report
A1 United Nations Environment Programme, 
A1 Global Environment Facility, 
A1 United Nations University, 
A2 Mee L., 
A2 Adeel, Z.
K1 water resource
K1 shared water resource
K1 water policy
K1 environmental policy
SN 92-808-6034-8
YR 2012
FD 2012
LK https://wedocs.unep.org/handle/20.500.11822/32437
UL https://wedocs.unep.org/handle/20.500.11822/32437
NO The Global Environment Facility (GEF) has catalysed the largest investment of its kind in human history into shared water bodies. The GEF has catalysed more than US$7 billion of investment in managing shared waters – fresh and marine – in almost every part of our planet, above and below its surface. The crucial role for science and scientific discovery in determining the nature and priority of investments has largely been taken for granted and its role and full potential have not previously been scrutinised. The present report is the culmination of a process that seeks to raise the profile of use and generation of science in the GEF International Waters (IW) portfolio and ensure that scientific advice is truly fit for purpose, gives greatest added value and that the science emerging from GEF projects contributes to our global knowledge base. In the IW:Science process, we have examined projects focussing on transboundary ground waters, rivers, lakes, coastal areas, large marine ecosystems and the global ocean and distilled the lessons learned in a series of synopsis reports and finally into the present document.
DS UN Environment Document Repository
RD Sep 22, 2026