GLOBAL VOICES FOR WETLANDS
Dr Musonda Mumba Secretary General of the Convention on Wetlands
Tony Juniper Chair of Natural England
“Wetlands can help to keep rivers flowing, even when rain is scarce, thereby protecting the living, shimmering threads that bring life to the landscape. Water standing on the land also helps recharge the aquifers that underpin much of our public water supply. Holding more water in the environment through the restoration of wet ecosystems can reduce flood peaks and protect us from the misery of the flooding that periodically affects communities across the country.”
“The science is clear, any scenario of meeting our global climate goals means radical protection and restoration of wetlands – the fastest disappearing ecosystem on the planet. Take peatlands, our most efficient land-based carbon store, we need to restore 25 million hectares of lost peatlands before 2030 to achieve the level of mitigation action we need to keep the Paris goal in reach.”
Professor Johan Rockström Joint Director of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research
Annie Proulx American novelist, short story writer, and journalist
“To tackle the climate, food, nature, and energy crises, water availability is of the essence. It is urgent that the world focuses all attention on the double facts that water is the number one challenge for climate adaptation due to droughts and floods, and a key challenge for mitigation, as there is no safe climate future well below 2 degrees Celsius without a functioning hydrological cycle.”
“The problem with destroying the fens, bogs and swamps is they are holding in carbon dioxide and methane gas. And the more we rip them up, the more carbon dioxide and methane comes floating into the atmosphere and the faster the Earth will be warming.”
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https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/aug/12/ britain-wetlands-drought-wildfires-floods-climate-change
https://www.npr.org/2022/10/11/1127959575/annie- proulx-book-wetlands
https://www.sciencedaily.com/ releases/2022/11/221109085743.htm
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Wetlands International Annual Review 2022
Wetlands International Annual Review 2022
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