Monitoring Wetlands for Sustainable Development - Dr. Ania Grobicki Acting Secretary General of the Ramsar Convention GEO Round Table, 7 March ...
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Monitoring Wetlands for Sustainable Development Dr. Ania Grobicki Acting Secretary General of the Ramsar Convention GEO Round Table, 7 March 2016
Ramsar Convention: the first major
international environmental treaty
• Aims to promote the conservation and wise use of wetlands, as well as
international cooperation on these issues
o Signed in 1971 in Ramsar, Iran
• 169 Contracting Parties
• Commits member states to wise use of all wetlands, and naming and
protecting “Wetlands of International Importance”
• 2,231 Ramsar Sites worldwide cover a total area of 215 million
hectares or 2.15 million km² (i.e. an area larger than Indonesia)
• Number of designated Ramsar Sites is up from 2,021 in 2000
The Ramsar Definition of Wetlands • Article 1.1: ‘For the purpose of this Convention wetlands are areas of marsh, fen, peatland or water, whether natural or artificial, permanent or temporary, with water that is static or flowing, fresh, brackish or salt, including areas of marine water the depth of which at low tide does not exceed six metres.’ • Article 2.1 provides that wetlands: ‘may incorporate riparian and coastal zones adjacent to the wetlands, and islands or bodies of marine water deeper than six metres at low tide lying within the wetlands’
Wetlands in the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) Under the Water Goal (Goal 6) : Target 6.6 : Protect and restore water-related ecosystems, including mountains, forests, wetlands, rivers, aquifers & lakes Indicator 6.6 : % change in extent of water-related ecosystems over time Under the Biodiversity Goal (Goal 15) : Target 15.1 : Ensure conservation, restoration and sustainable use of terrestrial and inland freshwater ecosystems and their services, in particular forests, wetlands, mountains and drylands, in line with obligations under international agreements
Multiple collaborating partners for an innovative and flexible monitoring
system…
GLOBAL WETLANDS OBSERVATION SYSTEM (GWOS)
Overall responsibility for the objective of GWOS, linking it to the monitoring of the Sustainable Development Goals, the Aichi
Biodiversity Targets and the Ramsar Strategic Plan for Wetlands 2016-2024. Formal endorsement, strategic positioning.
Ownership level
Ramsar
CBD UNEP GEO WMO
Convention
Giving input into the directions taken, supporting projects, facilitating linkages with existing projects, establishing user
interfaces.
Major stakeholders, funders, champions, enablers.
Global Governance
/User Interface
Ramsar
Wetlands Conservation Convention
UNEP GRID GEO BON UNEP-WCMC IUCN IWMI GEMI Consortium GEO Water
International International Secretariat
Operational Partnerships: Steering the delivery.
Project leads, expert advisors, data providers, end users, other
stakeholders.
Operational Partnerships
Ramsar Contracting
Space Agencies River
Parties (169 NGOs Corporate
(JAXA, ESA, Basin
countries' National s
Authoritie
NASA) Focal Points)
s
• Kick-off meeting took place at Ramsar offices on 10 November 2015 • Users Advisory Committee : 20+ users in-country represented by regional representatives from North Africa, West Africa, Central Africa and East Africa • Seamless toolbox integration with GlobWetland II • Future integration with outputs from Satellite-based Wetland Observation System (SWOS) • Needs to provide national wetland inventories for pilot countries, providing a baseline measurement of the extent of wetlands area in square km in 2017
Global Mangrove Watch (GMW) • GMW is an international collaborative project, led by JAXA, Univ. of New South Wales (AU) and Aberystwyth Univ. (UK) and WI, with contribitions from IWMI and WCMC. • As part of collaboration between JAXA and the Ramsar Wetlands Convention, GMW was (@ STRP-17) selected as a Pilot Project to the Ramsar Global Wetlands Observation System (GWOS) • GMW is to provide a tool for Ramsar, NGO’s and the public to obtain geospatial information at 25m resolution about mangrove extents and changes at national to global scales.
Key message : Consider a GEO Wetlands that links both to GEO BON and to GEO Water Thank you! Dr. Ania Grobicki Acting Secretary General of Ramsar Convention Email : grobicki@ramsar.org Website : www.ramsar.org
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