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Mariana Mazzucato and Johan Rockstrom
— Mariana Mazzucato, founding director of the UCL Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose, is co-chair of the Global Commission on the Economics of Water and co-chair of the Group of Experts to the G20 Taskforce for a Global Mobilization Against Climate Change.
— Johan Rockstrom, director of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research and professor of Earth system science at the University of Potsdam, is co-chair of the Global Commission on the Economics of Water.
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Global freshwater supplies in the balance
While the world’s attention has been on the US election, the rising number of extreme weather events — from disastrous flooding in Spain to southern Africa’s worst drought in a century — highlights the need to remain focused on climate change, biodiversity loss and a changing water cycle.