The connections between water and energy have been explored to some degree through economic and planning approaches such as the water-food-energy nexus. This session will approach the topic from a climate policy and finance context, so that we can ensure that our energy and carbon sequestration transitions recognize that water resource management is a tool to help all sectors achieve climate mitigation targets. Water should be: explicitly recognized in carbon management and sequestration; considered explicitly in tradeoffs relative to other sectors; managed for uncertainty, adaptation, and resilience; and connected to WASH, agriculture, and utility operations for carbon storage and low-carbon operations.

The Water Initiative for Net Zero (WINZ) shared insights gained from a global review of water-related actions to reduce global heating, highlighting the ways in which policy-makers and the finance community can better identify and support effective, long-term sequestration strategies.