Water must be mainstreamed into climate mitigation planning. Sustainable water management across key sectors is essential to achieve the Paris Agreement mitigation targets. Freshwater can make or break our ability to successfully implement many climate change mitigation solutions.

This Executive Summary details the main areas of the research undertaken by SIWI, and highlights the key messages on why, where, and how freshwater should be integrated into climate change mitigation plans and activities, to enable effective transition to net-zero greenhouse gas emissions.