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What are the course deliverables?
  • What you'll learn
  • Recognize the challenges that urban water and sanitation utilities face regarding climate change and sustainability.
  • Identify strategies to assess climate risks, greenhouse gas emissions, and energy consumption using tools like ECAM.
  • Identify strategies to reduce greenhouse gas emissions for water and sanitation utilities to transition to low-carbon operations.
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  • The objective of this course is to support urban water and sanitation utilities in transitioning to climate-resilient management by reducing their carbon emissions. This course, consisting of 4 modules, addresses the concept of climate change, its impacts, risks, and actions that can be employed for its mitigation, specifically within water and sanitation utilities. In this context, an introduction to climate financing is provided, explaining how companies can secure funding for projects that yield climate-related benefits.
  • Furthermore, a roadmap is developed, focusing on actions that water and sanitation companies can undertake to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions. To assess the carbon footprint, measure energy efficiency, and identify opportunities for performance improvement in the urban water sector, the course introduces the first holistic tool in the sector called ECAM, which stands for Energy Performance and Carbon Emissions Assessment and Monitoring Tool.
  • Part of] the material was produced by the Water and Wastewater Companies for Climate Mitigation (WaCCliM) project (2013-2022), a joint initiative between GIZ and the International Water Association (IWA). This project was part of the International Climate Initiative (IKI), financed by the Federal Government of Germany.
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Module 1: Climate Change in the Urban Water Sector

1.1.2 Greenhouse Effect and Climate Change

1.1.5 What is Meant by a Water Crisis?

1.1.1 What is Climate Change?

1.1.3 The United Nations’ Paris Agreement to Limit Global Warming

1.1.6 Water Availability and Quality

1.1.7 How are Water, Energy, and Climate Change Related?New Reading

1.1.8 Climate Change – Mitigation and Adaptation

1.2.1 Introducing Climate Finance

1.2.2 Additional Climate Benefits

1.2.4 Exercise: Financing Sources

1.3.2 Module Conclusion

1.3.3 Readings and Other Optional Resources

1.3.1 Evaluation Questionnaire

1.1.4 Water and Climate

1.1.9 Activity: Differences Between Mitigation and Adaptation Measures

1.1.10 Opportunities for Climate Change Mitigation in the Urban Water Sector

1.2.3 Activity: Getting Financial Resources for an Adaptation Measure

Module 2: Roadmap to a Low-Carbon Urban Water Utility

2.1.1 Low-Carbon Urban Water Utility

2.1.8 Recap of the 5 Steps

2.1.2 How Can Decarbonization Be Integrated into the Urban Water Sector?

2.1.5 Step 3 - Identify Opportunities for Improvement

2.1.10 How Likely Are You to Implement the Roadmap in Your Organization?

2.2.2 Module Conclusion

2.2.1 Evaluation Questionnaire

2.1.3 Step 1 - Motivate Action to Decarbonize

2.1.4 Step 2 - Assess your System with ECAM

2.1.6 Step 4 - Implement Solutions

2.1.7 Step 5 - Monitor Progress

Module 3: Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Fundamentals of Calculating

3.2.2 ECAM Tool

3.1.1 The Impacts of Climate Change in the Urban Water Sector

3.1.3 Types of GHG Emissions Sources within the Urban Water Cycle

3.1.4 Fundamentals of GHG Accounting in the Urban Water Sector

3.2.1 Introduction to ECAM

3.2.3 Benefits of Using ECAM

3.2.4 How to Use ECAM?

3.2.5 Assessing of Reduction Opportunities with ECAM

3.2.6 Example of an Initial Assessment

3.2.7 Initial GHG Assessment

3.2.8 Initial Evaluation of Pump Efficiency of Saint George

3.3.2 Module Conclusion

3.1.2 Knowledge Check: Types of GHD Emissions and Their Sources

3.3.1 Evaluation Questionnaire

3.1.5 Calculation Exercise

Module 4: Climate Risks in the Water and Sanitation Sector

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