JAKOB GRANIT, DIRECTOR, SIWI KNOWLEDGE SERVICES, STOCKHOLM INTERNATIONAL WATER INSTITUTE 

This article appeared in Outreach, a multi-stakeholder magazine on environment and sustainable development published at COP17. View it here.

With growing demand for energy and the need to decarbonise the energy supply chain with new power producing technologies, there is an urgent need to better understand the demand for water for energy production and include this into the existing mechanisms under the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC).