Climate Change
SWS Oceania Chapter Held Fire in Wetlands Forum
SWS Membership Benefits On September 8-9, 2021, the SWS Oceania Chapter held a Fire in Wetlands Forum which brought together scientists and managers from across Australia and covered topics including overviews and case-studies of fire management in and around a range of wetland types, wetland fire paleo-histories in Australia, cultural burning and wetland responses to…
Read MoreSWS Climate Change Initiative collaborates to bring global leaders together for plenary panel discussion at SER 2021 World Conference
SWS Membership Benefits World leaders in wetlands, peatlands and biodiversity conservation and restoration and climate change met (virtually) at the Society for Ecological Restoration’s (SER) 2021 World Conference Plenary Panel on June 22nd to discuss the importance of restoring and conserving wetlands including peatlands, and other ecosystems as a critical element in our response to…
Read MorePublication of paper on the Universal Rights of Wetlands
SWS Membership Benefits A new paper entitled “Towards a Universal Declaration of the Rights of Wetlands” was published (online early) in the journal Marine and Freshwater Research. It is available and downloadable through open access. The manuscript was prepared as part of the Rights of Wetlands Initiative of the Society of Wetland Scientists. Categories Biofuel CASS Chapter News Clean…
Read MoreWorld’s leading aquatic scientific societies urgently call for cuts to global greenhouse gas emissions
SWS Membership Benefits Dire consequences for freshwater and marine resources without significant and fast action Bethesda, MD (September 14, 2020). In an unprecedented statement released today, 110 aquatic scientific societies, including SWS and representing more than 80,000 scientists across the world, joined forces to sound a climate change alarm. The societies call for drastically curtailed global greenhouse…
Read MoreIntergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is seeking reviewers
SWS Membership Benefits The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is seeking reviewers for its first order draft of the 2019 Refinement to the 2006 IPCC Guidelines for National Greenhouse Gas Inventories, as indicated in this outline. Wetlands and wetland management are relevant in several places: Volume 1, chapter 1; Volume 4, chapter 7; and Volume 5,…
Read MoreSWS San Juan Statement on Climate Change and Wetlands
SWS Membership Benefits SWS issued the Society of Wetland Scientists San Juan Statement on Climate Change and Wetlands at the 2017 SWS Annual Meeting in San Juan, Puerto Rico, on June 5 – 8, 2017. Over 200 attendees signed the statement in support. The Statement reads as follows: “The following participants at the Society of Wetland Scientists…
Read MoreSWS tells Congress amendment 3140 to Energy Policy Modernization Act would make climate change worse
SWS Membership Benefits Dear Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, Minority Leader Harry Reid, Chairwoman Lisa Murkowski, and Ranking Member Maria Cantwell: We are 65 research scientists and practitioners who study energy, soils, forested and wetland ecosystems and climate change. We are writing in our individual capacities to express our concern over the implications of a “forest biomass carbon neutrality”…
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