Headline: wpn2030 - Wissenschaftsplattform Nachhaltigkeit 2030. Freshwater as Global Commons. International Governance and the Role of Germany. Report to the Science Platform Sustainability 2030

This study reveals that the current global water governance architecture is a highly fragmented and incoherent regime consisting of numerous norms, paradigms and actors, each covering single aspects of global water governance. Given the diversity of issues, a “classical” formation of one comprehensive international water regime in the form of a framework convention, and equipped with a specific global governance institution (such as for climate stability or biological diversity) has so far not emerged.