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Realizing such projects typically requires mobilising multiple stakeholders, representing
different value-streams. The potential of green funding, including carbon and biodiversity

credits, needs enhancement as a motivational factor, where the multifarious benefits flowing

from environmental and cultural assets become more visible and impactful through a more
potent and more collaborative effort.

IV: CALL FOR ACTION GOING FORWARD

Drawing and extending from the above, in looking ahead, the Muscat Call:
Notes the historical significance of well-developed responses by communities and

governance systems of the past when it comes to managing scarce water resources,
Underlines the systemic, cross-horizontal nature of these challenges, calling from new forms

of collaboration in support of sustainability, cross-sectorally, cross-disciplinary and by way of

cross-geographical and cross-jurisdictional border issues,
Takes note of the shifting planetary environmental, socio-economic and geopolitical

dynamics, in view of the limitations of contemporary policy frameworks, accountability, and

underpinning tools to address humanity’s fundamental needs within the context of climate
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change, resource scarcity, biodiversity, and disrupted water cycles ,
Considers the presence of huge disparities in incomes and access to information, also

reflected in markedly varying access to clean and safe water across communities and regions,
as well as when it comes to exposure to aging and inadequate treatment and distribution

infrastructure, Stresses the importance of linking and engaging diverse competences,

authorities, and interests, to harmonise and align key concepts, perceptions and approaches of
relevance to water management so to realise sustainable resolutions and actions,

Bears in mind the multiplicity of efforts by governments, scientists, businesses,

communities, and various manifestations of stakeholders and other special groupings, to cast
light on the challenges brought by accelerating global crises such as those associated with

Climate Change and the destruction of biodiversity, while achieving important guidance for
collective action, such as the Sustainable Development Goals of the United Nations,

17 Prof Juha Alatalo, Qatar University, Doha, and Prof. Olof Lindén, Linnaeus University, Växjö, and senior
advisor, World Maritime University, Malmö.

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