Reports
Policy Brief – How can coastal wetlands help achieve EU climate goals?
The newly published Policy Brief by the RESTORE4Cs project, titled “How can coastal wetlands help achieve EU climate goals?”, underscores the significant role European coastal wetlands play in reducing greenhouse gas emissions when they are well-preserved and restored.
Restoring Mediterranean Wetlands: The new policymaker’s playbook for sustainable management and ecosystem restoration by 2030
This handbook has been prepared in the framework of the project “Strengthening the restoration of Mediterranean Wetlands for nature and people” funded by the MAVA Foundation. It has been coordinated by WWF Spain, MedWet and Tour du Valat in partnership with PIM Initiative and MEDSEA. The project is part of the Wetlands-Based Solutions initiative funded by the MAVA Foundation.
Integrated management for the conservation of Mediterranean wetlands: Economics of Nature-based Solutions
Despite the multiple benefits of NbS and their positive socio-economic benefits, those solutions remain too little implemented. Our aim is to upscale the uptake of NbS, by targeting directly policy decision makers, businesses and both public and private investors demonstrating the concrete implications of NbS on the ground and from a socioeconomic perspective.
Making the right decisions for nature: a practical guide to implement Nature-based Solutions
This document targets policy-decision makers, public and private investors. Its ambition is to convince decision-makers to plan, implement and invest resources in NbS, with a final goal to make them more operational and systematize their uptake. It was developed thanks to the financial support of the MAVA Foundation as part of a project aiming to increase knowledge about the economic and business features of Nature-based Solutions (NbS).
Tools to sustain wetland
restoration efforts in
the Mediterranean
Wetlands are the most productive ecosystems in the world, providing essential ecosystem services both for people and nature. In particular, they are crucial for climate change adaptation and mitigation. But their loss and degradation are three times faster than forests, and in the Mediterranean Basin, one of the major global biodiversity and climate change hotspots, wetlands are disappearing at an alarming rate. Since 1970, 50% of Mediterranean wetlands have disappeared.
Legal use of water in agriculture
The purpose of this guide is to provide auditors and inspectors from agricultural product certification companies, as well as technicians and farmers who require it, with a useful tool to enable them to tackle the complex task of auditing legal water use.
This translated document is based on the Spanish document “Guía de WWF para verificar el uso legal del agua en la agricultura”, published by WWF Spain in 2021 as part of the Mission Possible: Guadalquivir challenge, which is being undertaken by WWF Spain.
The Governance of Coastal Wetlands in the Mediterranean: A Handbook
“This Handbook is designed as a practical guide for the governance of coastal wetlands around the Mediterranean, whether they are formally protected as Ramsar Sites, those designated under national or local legislation, or those lacking any formal protection. It takes into account the principles and practice of Integrated Coastal Zone Management (ICZM), Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM), and the tools offered by the two relevant conventions: the Ramsar Convention on Wetlands and the Barcelona Convention (UNEP/MAP).”
Barcelona COP 21 Policy Position Paper
At Barcelona Convention COP 21, MedWet and Off Your map partners called for urgent action to support Mediterranean coastal areas and wetlands. This policy position paper highlights the critical role coastal wetlands play as resilient Nature-based Solutions in the fight against climate change, and advocates for a more effective conservation of these biodiversity and culture-rich natural habitats.
Saltpans and Ponds: Socio-Ecosystems Connecting Lives
The East Atlantic flyway is made up of a network of saltpans and coastal wetlands, and stretches from the Arctic, through Europe, all the way to South Africa. The flyway provides vital refuge, food and resting grounds for billions of birds migrating between their breeding and wintering grounds.
Outsmart Climate Change: Work with Nature!
While climate change is becoming more and more of a concrete reality, impacting people and places throughout the Mediterranean region, a broad range of Nature-based Solutions are available to enhance society’s resilience in this new, dynamic and highly challenging context.
Nature-Based Solutions in the Camargue’s Former Saltworks
In order to mitigate the consequences of climate change that are predicted to increase in the 21th century, Nature-Based Solutions appear more and more as an efficient answer on a long-term basis, economical for public finances, and positive for natural ecosystems.
Mediterranean Wetlands Outlook 2
The Mediterranean Wetlands Observatory just published the new report “Mediterranean Wetlands Outlook 2: Solutions for Sustainable Mediterranean Wetlands (MWO-2)”.
Water, Wetlands and Nature-Based-Solutions in a Nexus Context in the Mediterranean
Wetlands are among the world’s most productive environments. At the crossroads of key economic sectors, wetlands are wellsprings of biological diversity and provide vital natural resources as well as valuable services to mankind, representing a significant opportunity for “nature-based solutions”.