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Wetlands for water and life

To sustain and restore wetlands, their resources and biodiversity


Wetlands International works to sustain and restore wetlands, their resources and biodiversity for future generations. Wetlands include river delta, lakes, peatswamps, lagoons, estuaries and reefs.

Our latest news:

REDD forest agreement hits new low, missing basic elements Friday, November 06, 2009
Barcelona – Prospects for a robust agreement to reduce emissions from deforestation and degradation in developing countries (REDD) are on a knife-edge. This state forest and climate experts from the Ecosystems Climate Alliance - of which Wetlands International is part - as the United ...

RSPO fails to address greenhouse gas emissions Thursday, November 05, 2009
The Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO) meeting this week in Kuala Lumpur has been unable to develop any clear criteria on greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. This means that there are no credible criteria for sustainable palm oil at this moment. Some hope does exist for the future thanks to the a...

Report on peatland emissions changes global picture Wednesday, November 04, 2009
Wetlands International in cooperation with Greifswald University has presented the first ever overview of peatland emissions and peat stocks per country. The overview presented today turns the official emission figures of many countries upside down.

Presentation of first ever peatland emission data per country Friday, October 30, 2009
Wetlands International and Greifswald University will present the first ever overview of peat carbon stocks and drainage related carbon dioxide emissions of all 170 peat-containing countries world wide at the UN climate talks (UN-FCCC) Barcelona on Wednesday 4 November. Splitting the globa...

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Film: restoring Indonesia's peatswamp forests

 

This video tells the story how peatlands are degraded in Indonesia and how this contributes to CO2 emissions. Wetlands International works to restore the degraded peatswamps of Southeast Asia.

On the video pages you can find more short films on adapting to climate change, reducing CO2 emissions from peatlands, poverty reduction and much more. Furthermore, visit our YouTube Channel (Wetlandsint) to see all our videos.

                

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Our latest publication

The Global Peatland CO2 Picture
The report presents the first overview ever of peatland carbon data for all countries and regions of the world. This overview has been produced to facilitate the UNFCCC climate negotiations in response to a call by countries for emission data caused by the Land Use Change and Forestry sector. For every country/area informat... Read more...



For all our publications go to Watch & Read.

 

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