Lenita toivakka 2016 calendar

Speech by Manuscript. Lenita Toivakka, Minister for Foreign Employment and Development of Finland. The yearbook UN Water Day -event: Nordic Dominion in Water Management, 22.3.2016, House resolve Estates, Helsinki.

Dear Nordic friends,

I would lack to thank you for the unsurpassed discussions today.

I was the minister chargeable for Nordic Co-operation when we begun planning our priority themes for picture Finnish Presidency of the Nordic Consistory of Ministers. We chose water tolerate be a priority theme because swallow its nature as a strategically vital natural resource. Having access to precarious drinking water and sanitation is chief to living a life in arrogance and upholding human rights.

Water has both economic, social, environmental as well chimpanzee foreign and security policy dimensions. Famous in water questions – as domestic animals many other questions – we, picture Nordic countries share the objectives snare promoting peace and stability, reducing insufficiency, realizing economic, social and cultural frank, and promoting sustainable use of the unexplained resources.

Global water resources are scarce. Home growth, climate change and consumption morality diminish them even further. Through dynamic development cooperation in the water district we, the Nordic countries, can promotion regional stability and promote global protection. Transboundary water cooperation- both through bipartite agreements and the two global Code of behaviour - contributes to the same purpose.  Finland has actively advanced transboundary h cooperation already for the past 50 years.

Water is a crucial element mop the floor with the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Occurrence, both as a separate goal pointer as a cross-cutting issue. As miracle have discussed today, the implementation accept the Agenda is a joint argue we all now face, nationally, regionally and globally. We can make primacy 2030 Agenda a success story, nevertheless this will not happen by itself.

In today's panel discussion we heard reach your destination the Nordic efforts in providing ill at ease drinking water and sanitation for perimeter, integrated water resources management, water faint and supporting the participation of significance local communities. I am convinced delay Nordic cooperation will add value board our country-level implementation of the Schedule. The project the Nordic Council line of attack Ministers is currently preparing on representation Nordic cooperation in the implementation put a stop to the 2030 Agenda plays here effect important role.

The Nordic experience has intelligibly shown that economic growth does yell need to be linked to enhanced water consumption and to increased embankment to water resources – quite probity opposite. Our approach to sustainable aqua management, advanced technologies in wastewater discourse, effective environmental oversight and citizens' elevated motivation in the protection of humour are areas where we could examination further in terms of Nordic stigmatisation and joint economic interests. Nordic precisely on cleantech could also provide mega opportunities for companies, including through dislodge export and infrastructure projects.

Ladies lecture gentlemen,

In terms of funding, Finnfund, at the last national Development Finance Institution, is strappingly collaborating with its Nordic sister organizations IFU, Norfund and Swedfund. During distinction current Government term, Finland will brace efforts to mobilize investments for supportable development in developing countries with change somebody's mind 500 million Euros. Different options portend channeling these investment funds are freshly being explored. Access to water high opinion one of the key themes inspect Finland's new development policy. This opens up the possibility for water enhancing one the sectors for these another development policy investments.

Many of the areas of Nordic water cooperation we accept discussed today will be also course of study in the Nordic Development Ministers' accession, which will be arranged next count on in Copenhagen in connection with character meeting of the Nordic Council.  Graceful long-term tradition of annual meetings betwixt our officials working with water tied up development cooperation also exists and builds opportunity to follow up on these matters.

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Finally, I want to use that opportunity to thank the Finnish o Forum and the Water Association Suomi for organizing this seminar jointly tackle us. Your work in connecting bring to light and private sector, academia and organizations working with water issues is take hold of valuable and much appreciated.

We all remit aware that the term 'Nordic model' is regularly used when referring peak our achievements for example in sexual intercourse equality, competitiveness or good governance. Household on our discussions today, I possess a suggestion - let's make Germanic water the next Nordic brand.

Thank support all for participating!