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Waterproof 6: From Financing Green to Greening Finance

Geschreven door Tracy Metz op . Gepost in Podcast, Water, Waterproof.

“Climate adaptation and water investments have huge economic benefits, but it’s hard to translate that into financial revenue streams”, says International Water Envoy of the Netherlands Meike van Ginneken in this sixth and last episode of Waterproof. “You need ‘patient capital’. And that very quickly gets you to public finance. Governments have a very important role in this, in organizing climate adaptation.”

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Waterproof 4: Build. Neglect. Repair. Repeat.

Geschreven door Tracy Metz op . Gepost in Podcast, Water, Waterproof.

This fourth episode of Waterproof is all about breaking the Build-Neglect-Repair Cycle. As we have called it: Build. Neglect. Repair. Repeat. With the best intentions, countries from the global north often spend a bundle of money building something that people in developing countries need, or that the donor thinks they need. Then the locals can’t maintain it, or can’t afford to, or they don’t know how. It falls apart, and the donor either has to come back to repair it – or doesn’t come back at all. It’s a vicious circle. 

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Waterproof 3: Locals in the Lead

Geschreven door Tracy Metz op . Gepost in Podcast, Water, Waterproof.

Once upon a time, Europeans would turn up in emerging countries with mega-infrastructure projects meant to help people. They were well-meaning, but often deaf to what the local populations wanted or needed. Times have changed and, as you’ll hear in this third episode of Waterproof, more and more, the locals run the show! More about the people you’ll hear in the show below:

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Waterproof 2: The Salty Intruder

Geschreven door Tracy Metz op . Gepost in Podcast, Water, Waterproof.

This second episode of Waterproof is all about ‘The Salty Intruder’. All over the world, arable land is becoming more and more saline, threatening farmers’ livelihoods and our food security. But there are smart, innovative people looking for solutions – and the Dutch are helping, for example with a new Virtual Reality game to teach farmers to plant salt tolerant crops. I played it – but I wasn’t very good at it, I have to admit. Listen here:

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