Session 6 - Revision and clarification of the guidance concerning Implementing arrangements (Section II, questions 4-13)

Second meeting of the drafting group on the guide to reporting under the water convention and as a contribution to SDG indicator 6.5.2 Geneva, Switzerland, 3-4 September 2019 11. What are the measures implemented to prevent or limit Notes included in the Draft Guide on question 11 the transboundary impact of extreme weather events and [65] Examples of what extreme weather events and climate change? [65] impacts of climate change might include according to the Watercourses Convention. Notification and communication □ [66] A co-ordinated or joint alarm system for Coordinated or joint alarm system droughts might include basin States defining a for floods □ common “drought of record” for the basin. Coordinated or joint alarm system for droughts [66] □ [67] Reference to Guidance on Water and Adaptation Joint climate change adaptation to Climate Change (ECE, 2009). strategy [67] □ [68] Other measures might include joint monitoring Joint disaster risk reduction of low water levels. strategy□ [BOX] Joint Finnish-Russian Action Programme. Other (please list): [fill in] [68] No measures □ Comments : Netherlands: “Joint disaster risk If not, why not? What difficulties reduction strategy” Reference could be made to the does your country face in putting Words into Action guide. in place such measures?: [fill in] Finnish-Russian Risk Management Plan for extreme weather events

• Joint hydrological monitoring and forecasting • Inclusion of rural and urban planning • Flood risk mapping • Joint assesment methodology for potential damages • Development of discharge practice according to Discharge Rule (water allocation rule), minimising the dmages and optimising the benefits in bouth sides of the border Schedule for measures and responsible bodies (examples) MEASURE FREQUENCY RESPONSIBLE BODY RUSSIA FINLAND Flood and drought risk assessment

Description of the flood and drought risk by the end of 2016 Neva-Ladoga Basin Water Agency, Emergency ELY Centre for S-E Finland, assessment methods in use in Finland and Russia Ministry unit for Leningrad Region Finnish Environment Institute SYKE

Flood maps on Lake Saimaa and River Vuoksi by the end of 2019 Committee on Natural Resources of Leningrad ELY Centre for S-E Finland, regional administration, agencies of Vyborg and Finnish Environment Institute SYKE Priozersk districts, Northwest Russian Hydrological and Meteorological Institute, Emergency Ministry unit for Leningrad Region, Northwest Russian Environmental Control Agency

Developing a joint assessment method for flood completed by 2021 Committee on Natural Resources of Leningrad ELY Centre for S-E Finland, risk and damage on the basis of the best methods Region, agencies of Vyborg and Priozersk districts, Finnish Environment Institute SYKE of the two countries. Testing of the assessment Northwest Russian Hydrological and method in River Vuoksi and Lake Saimaa area Meteorological Institute, Emergency Ministry unit for Leningrad Region, Northwest Russian Environmental Control Agency, Neva-Ladoga Basin Water Agency