Posts Tagged ‘Climate Change’
SWS 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 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 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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