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5 CJEL 1 (2021)

handle is hein.journals/chjevl5 and id is 1 raw text is: CtI CHINESE JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL BRILL LAW 5 (2021) 1-10 C...... N IJ H O F F brill.com/cjel Editorial 1 Interconnectedness and Transnational Cooperation Recent times have brought a new awareness of the fact that the world is an interconnected one. Such a description is true in a variety of ways. By their very nature, viruses respect no political or geographical boundaries, and, as is becoming better understood, they often do not recognize borders between the human species and other animal species. This is a salient reminder that micro and macro ecosystems are all physically connected. The years 2020-2021 show that, for people to cope with the COVID-19 pandemic, and maintain at least a modicum of normality, myriad international meetings and literally billions of human communications have taken place only via electronic means. These virtual platforms have become vital for all types of meetings, but especially when many of them cannot take place physically. An underlying theme of each of the Conferences of the Parties and meetings discussed below is that the world's governments, as well as UN and other intergovernmental organisations and non-government bodies, must now, more than ever, factor the awareness of interconnectedness into their decisions, especially when drafting globally applicable policies and laws on the environment. This means that all members of the international community should put aside their political, economic, and cultural differences in a renewed spirit of transnational environmental coop- eration for the good of all life on the planet. 2 UN Water and SDG 6 (Clean Water and Sanitation) In its role of providing support to UN Member States for the sustainable management of water and sanitation, UN Water held its 34th meeting in mid- March of this year. Drawing together more than 120 representatives (Members, Partners, Observers), the meeting examined various means and methods for advancing progress of Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 6 on clean water and sanitation in this context. It canvassed a range of actions undertaken to date on the key areas recognised by the SDG 6 Global Acceleration Framework: financing, data and information, capacity development, innovation, and © BEN BOER ET AL., 2021 I DOI:10.1163/24686042-12340061 This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the CC BY 4.0 license.

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