News story and press release
news story
The Global Wetland Outlook 2025: Valuing, conserving, restoring and financing wetlands
This new 2025 Edition from the Convention on Wetlands highlights the importance of wetland services for sustainable development.
Read the news story here
press release
Vanishing wetlands put $39 trillion in global benefits on the line
Nairobi, Kenya, 15 July 2025 – Launched today, the new Global Wetland Outlook 2025: Valuing, conserving, restoring and financing wetlands from the Convention on Wetlands 2025, warns that without urgent action, one fifth of the world’s remaining wetlands could vanish by 2050—an ecological loss with massive social and economic consequences.
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Launch of the Global Wetland Outlook 2025
Twentieth Session of the African Ministerial Conference on the Environment (AMCEN-20)
The Global Wetland Outlook 2025: Valuing, conserving, restoring and financing wetlands was launched at a press event at the United Nations Office at Nairobi (UNON) on 15 July during the Twentieth Session of the African Ministerial Conference on the Environment (AMCEN-20).
Watch the launch here