Ramsar Convention on Wetlands
The Ramsar Convention on Wetlands provides the framework for the conservation and wise use of all wetlands through local and national actions and international cooperation, as a contribution towards achieving sustainable development throughout the world.
Under the Convention Strategic Plan 2016-2024 a series of actions are directly related to sustainable development including water, livelihoods, biodiversity, disaster risk reduction, resilience and carbon sinks. Also Parties have adopted a specfic framework on water including river basin management, water allocation and ground water. The Secretariat is engage in the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), as co-custodian with UNEP of indicator SDG 6.6.1 and Goals 14 and 15. It participates actively at the meetings of the Inter-Agency and Expert Group on Sustainable Development Goals (IAEG-SDGs).
National reports
The Secretariat has collected and analysed the data submitted by Contracting Parties through national reports (Goal 6 Indicator 6.6.1 and 6.3.1).
2 February: World Wetlands Day UN-Water World Wetlands Day occurs annually on 2 February, marking the date of the adoption of the Convention on Wetlands on the same date in 1971. “Wetlands and climate change”, the theme for 2019, aims to highlight the important role played by wetlands, as natural so … Read more
Countering global threats from peatland loss & degradation UN-Water UNEP and Ramsar launch the revised edition of Smoke on Water – Countering global threats from peatland loss & degradation. A Rapid Response Assessment. More than 180 countries have peatlands but we are only just star … Read more
The relationship of indigenous peoples and local communities with wetlands UN-Water Today, there are an estimated 370 million indigenous peoples across the world. Although they represent a relatively small portion of the global population, they account for the largest portion of linguistic and cultu … Read more
The Global Wetland Outlook UN-Water Wetlands – world’s most valuable ecosystem – disappearing three times faster than forests, warns new report from the Ramsar Convention on Wetlands. Approximately 35 per cent of the world’s wetlands were lost between 1970-2015 with annual rates of loss accelerating … Read more
New policy brief series on wetlands UN-Water Wetlands are the link between land and water, and play a number of roles in the environment, principally water purification, flood control, carbon sink and shoreline stability. Wetlands are also considered the most biologically diverse of all ecosystems, … Read more
