South African President Calls for Global Focus on Water
(MENAFN) Water must take center stage in global discussions on climate change and financial strategy, South African President Cyril Ramaphosa declared Wednesday during the opening of the African Union Water Investment Summit in Cape Town.
Ramaphosa outlined four key objectives for the summit. First, participants are expected “to endorse a summit declaration that commits us to scale up investments to improve governance and to increase accountability in the water sector.”
Second, the event aims to “showcase a pipeline of 80 priority investment projects from 38 countries” and to “facilitate matchmaking between governments, financiers, and various partners.”
Third, the summit aims to elevate water to the forefront of global political and financial priorities, spanning forums like the G20, COP30, the UN 2026 water conference, and beyond, he explained.
Ramaphosa also underscored the urgency of putting water at the forefront of climate and finance deliberations: “We can clearly say that water must no longer be an afterthought at climate and finance discussions. It must be at the center of discussions. It must be financed; it must be tracked in terms of whether progress is being made or not.”
“We can no longer treat water as an afterthought in climate and finance discussions. It must be at the core of these talks. It must be funded, and we must track whether progress is being made,” the president emphasized, adding that water has the potential to become a “driver of economic transformation, innovation, and peace.”
He also called for a world “where water is viewed as a human right, not as a tool to be weaponized against women, children, and communities.”
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