This event highlights projects from around the world selected for Expo 2020's Global Best Practice Programme, that showcase successful and scalable models for delivering sanitation and ecosystem services and promoting sustainable water management approaches.

Charting a Course for Sustainable Development

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Spotlighting development solutions that have demonstrated impacts for improved water management outcomes - highlighting Best Practice Programme projects from around the world.

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Jennifer Comer, Senior Manager, Dispensers for Safe Water, Evidence Action speaks during the Best Practice Programming - Spotlighting Solutions Around Water Management at the Best Practice Area, Speakers Corner m68653

Junaid Ghulam, Petroleum Engineering Manager, Petroleum Development Oman speaks during the Best Practice Programming - Spotlighting Solutions Around Water Management at the Best Practice Area, Speakers Corner m68648

Sunil Lalvani, Founder & CEO, Project Maji speaks during the Best Practice Programming - Spotlighting Solutions Around Water Management at the Best Practice Area, Speakers Corner m68652

Zoë Cuthbert, Senior Manager, Programme for People and Planet at Expo 2020 Dubai speaks during the Best Practice Programming - Spotlighting Solutions Around Water Management at the Best Practice Area, Speakers Corner m68646

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Water fuels our sustenance but also moves money, goods and people around the world, provides a valuable source of renewable energy, and enables the world’s food to grow. This week will help us understand how to preserve and sustainably manage this precious finite resource for infinite uses. The programme will highlight the true value of water, as well as progress and best practice in ensuring clean and adequate water for people, industry and the planet.

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 How will we protect our most precious resource today, for tomorrow?

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Best Practice Programming | Spotlighting Solutions Around Water Management: Session 2

Back in 2015, United Nations unveiled the Sustainable Development Goals as a means to work towards a better future. Expo 2020 Dubai’s purpose embodies the two main pillars of these goals: sustainability and opportunity. The global COVID-19 pandemic has further proved the urgency of this global agenda. As this mega-event takes place, Expo 2020 Dubai will become the center of commitment and action in ensuring that no one is left behind. The Leave No One Behind Track of Expo 2020 Dubai's Programme for People and Planet features a tapestry of event series that spotlight the importance of opportunity for all, gender equality and much more.

Catalysing Opportunity for All

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Leave No One Behind

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Cultural connections and knowledge were forged through maritime trade over centuries, shaping our cultural identities and belief systems. Water has symbolised freedom and exploration through tales of adventure, or it has represented the wrath of nature through shifting rivers, drowning bodies and historic ﬂoods. As much of the planet faces water scarcity and damage to marine ecosystems, what can we learn from the respect that our ancestors had for the elixir of life? How does the past connect with the water crises and water conﬂicts we face today?

The Silencing of Water

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A session that examines the connections and knowledge forged by water over centuries and explores how the past connects with the water challenges and crises we face today.

Inside Expo: Sustainability I: The World’s Oldest Innovator

Inside Expo: Sustainability II: Harnessing the Sun

The Powerhouse Pavilions

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At Expo 2020, sustainability is an urgent, attainable reality, and Terra – The Sustainability Pavilion is the proof. Both immersive exhibition space and exemplar of environmental self-sufficiency, Terra is a pioneering piece of architecture that pushes the limits of renewable design.

The pavilion’s 130-metre-wide solar canopy – so vast that you could park 10 city buses head-to-tail atop it – converts sunshine into electricity for the exhibits below. Artfully funnelled natural light and local plant species, together with technologies that can reduce water consumption by 75 per cent, show the way to a sustainable future.


Inspiring experiential journey through our shared sustainable future

Two immersive paths to choose from: beneath a forest and beneath an ocean

LEED Platinum environmental features, including solar power and water recycling

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Terra is a super-sized marvel of forward-thinking design. The pavilion’s technology generates enough energy in a year to power a Nissan Leaf to drive halfway to Mars, while another system captures moisture from the air you breathe and turns it into drinkable water. Enter and take a fantastical journey through the wonders of nature, humanity’s challenges and the promise of our shared future. 


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Terra is home to five thought-provoking art installations from artists around the world, with each piece demonstrating a response to the issue of sustainability.

Terra Art Installations

Young visitors can explore a fantastical world inspired by Terra's very own octopus, Octavia.

Octavia's Playground

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Dr Vikrom Mathur, speaks during the Cultures in Conversation - The Silencing of Water at the Terra Auditorium m69481

Nada Raza, Director, Alserklal Arts Foundation speaks during the Cultures in Conversation - The Silencing of Water at the Terra Auditorium m69478

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Cultures in Conversation | The Silencing of Water

World Expos have always been meeting places for people across cultures and geographies; an opportunity to come together and celebrate human ingenuity and forge meaningful human connections. As the first World Expo to be held in the Middle East, Africa and South Asia (MEASA) region, and with the participation of more than 192 countries, Expo 2020 Dubai looks to take this legacy even further. The Build Bridges track of Expo 2020 Dubai’s Programme for People and Planet features a tapestry of event series and experiences that celebrate our common humanity and the vital connections that can help us prosper together as a worldwide community.

Knowing One Another Better

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Water is the most precious resource on the planet - essential for healthy lives, economies and communities. With the world's water resources increasingly under stress and threat, it is more important than ever to harness the power of partnerships, innovation, and technology to ensure that this priceless substance is accessed, managed and distributed in a sustainable manner, with a view towards restoring the health of water sources and ecosystems, and creating new opportunities for communities and economies to prosper. 

The Value of Water

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This forum highlights business opportunities and cutting-edge technologies relevant to the water sector, focusing on how we can protect our most precious resource today, for tomorrow.

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With its stunning mountain peaks, thick forests and medieval castles, Slovakia may seem like the setting of a fairy-tale, but a closer look reveals a modern manufacturing power crackling with innovative energy, from hydrogen-fuel research to aerospace design. The Slovakia Pavilion celebrates this nation’s speedy pace of development with an immersive 360-degree adventure that gives visitors a playful peek under the hood of its innovative projects. Discover a hydrogen-powered car and bus, Slovak-manufactured planes, touch-free technologies and more.


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Co-curated with the UAE Minister of State's Office for Food and Water Security and UN Water, Expo 2020 Dubai celebrates World Water Day exploring different ways in which water resources can be reserved. This year's theme is "Making the Invisible Visible".

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Connecting the business community with a world of possibilities in the most dynamic city in the Middle East.

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As an Official Partner for Expo 2020 Dubai, Dubai Chamber is playing a key role in creating new connections and fostering cross-border collaboration. The Chamber is providing a platform for UAE companies and their international counterparts to network at its on-site facility at Expo 2020. It is also hosting a number of high-profile events during Expo, including the Global Business Forum (GBF) Africa, GBF Latin America, GBF ASEAN, the 12th World Chambers Congress and the 5th edition of the Global Islamic Economy Summit.

Creating an Expo of business opportunities

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Dubai Chamber

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World Expos have long been inflection points for global progress and innovation where governments and citizens have united to form enduring partnerships and generate opportunities in business. We have built an exciting offering through which entities such as governments, the private sector and others can harness the power of global trade and exchange to shape a better world. 

The Thrive Together Track of Expo 2020 Dubai’s Programme for People and Planet features a tapestry of event series and experiences that focus on building a resilient global economy, one that enables strong economic growth and partnerships. 

Enabling Economic Growth and Partnerships

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This event taking place in a hybrid format (physically hosted at the Spain Pavilion of Expo 2020 Dubai and broadcasted) aims at building bridges between the Green Tech innovation ecosystems in both the EU and Arab Countries by creating connections among the three critical stakeholders in such innovation ecosystems: top researchers (Minds); driven entrepreneurs (Management) and smart capital investors (Money).

Fostering Innovation in Green Tech: Connecting Minds, Scaling up Strategies and Funding

Be inspired by sustainable projects in science, technology, education and art.

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Developing connections among critical stakeholders in innovation ecosystems from across the EU and Middle East. 

Creating a Cultural Renaissance

EXHIBITOR Magazine Announces World Expo Award Winners

EXHIBITOR Magazine's World Expo Awards

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The Spain Pavilion at Expo 2020 is an open, eco-friendly exhibition that seamlessly blends ancient heritage and cutting-edge innovation.

An airy ground floor features several small, naturally cooled plazas that are ideal for relaxing or snacking on tapas. Venture underground into aroomy basement, and you’ll explore a “forest of the future” filled with thought-provoking exhibits on Spain’s contributions to global sustainability.


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Inspired by Spain’s age-old links to the Arab world, the Spain Pavilion takes the shape of a lively field of sheer, conical towers in hues of brick, orange, and saffron yellow. Visitors venture under this vast canopy of peaks, built from reusable materials including wood, iron and fabric, to explore a series of breezy plazas. The underside of each airy dome is decorated with unique textures that reflect their exhibits: swirls of woven straw, a green canopy of plants, falls of digital water, and more. One dome also shelters a tasty tapas restaurant.

Best Practice Programming | Spotlighting Solutions Around Water Management: Session 2

Charting a Course for Sustainable Development

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Water Week .

This event is part of the
Leave No One Behind.

Charting a Course for Sustainable Development

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Water Week .

This event is part of theLeave No One Behind.

This event is part of the
Leave No One Behind.