Launch of “Guidelines for a minimum methodological standard for global reporting” on how to incorporate environmental flows into SDG “water stress” indicator 6.4.2. The guidelines intend to assist countries in the assessment on water stress by contributing data on environmental flows (EF) which are necessary for the calculation of SDG 6.4.2, indicator on water stress. Assessing environmental flows improves water management by ensuring a sustainable water supply that meets the needs of people, agriculture, energy, industry and the environment within the limits of availability.

FAO is the custodian agency for the two indicators for SDG 6, Target 4, defined as “by...

Speaker: Sunay Demircan, Foundation of Nature Conservation Centre / Turkey

 In Latin, “cultura” means the processing of the earth. The metaphorical meaning of the abstract concept is the processing of the human and intellectual mind. What makes this process powerful and even passes through generations is the nature itself.

The basic material of production is nature. As the relationship between production and consumption changes throughout the human history, the relationship with nature has changed, therefore the concept of nature has changed.

During the hunter-gatherer periods, the nature was sanctified by humans; with the first settlements, the nature was tried to be managed in...