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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.

Download the Press Release here

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

 
 
 
 
 

Briefing Note

Find out more about the Global Wetland Outlook 2025

 
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Briefing Note

Find out more about the Global Wetland Outlook 2025: Valuing, conserving, restoring and financing wetlands.

The Global Wetland Outlook 2025 is the most recent and comprehensive assessment to date of the state, value and trajectory of wetlands worldwide.

The report summarises the latest empirical data on wetland extent, loss and degradation trends, the economic value of ecosystem services and the investment scale required to meet international restoration and conservation targets.

Download the Briefing Note here:

 

Key Messages

Key messages are available in English, French and Spanish

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Read key messages from the Global Wetland Outlook here.


Lisez les messages clés des Perspectives mondiales des zones humides ici.


Lea mensajes clave de la Perspectiva mundial sobre los humedales aquí.

 

Join the conversation

Join the launch of the Global Wetland Outlook 2025 and share the latest status, trends and pressures on wetlands – and critical actions to reverse their decline.

 
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Hashtags and key handles

convention on wetlands’ social media accounts to tag

 
 

hashtags

#GlobalWetlandOutlook2025


Key handles of the convention

Bluesky: ‪@ramsar.org‬

X: @RamsarConv

LinkedIn: Ramsar Convention on Wetlands

Facebook: @RamsarConventionOnWetlands

Instagram: @convention_on_wetlands

Convention website: www.ramsar.org

Social media posts

 
 

🌍 Wetlands are vanishing—22% lost since 1970, with degradation accelerating worldwide.

New @RamsarConv #GlobalWetlandOutlook2025 is a call to act now for nature, climate, and people.

🛑 Delay doubles the cost.

#RestoreWetlands

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#Wetlands host 40% of global biodiversity - yet they’re disappearing faster than any other ecosystem.

@RamsarConv #GlobalWetlandOutlook2025 shows urgent action is needed to conserve & restore these life-support systems.

#ForNature #KMGBF

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 🌿 Wetlands lock up 1/3 of the world’s soil carbon. But they’re being lost at 0.52% per year.

New @RamsarConv #GlobalWetlandOutlook2025 shows restoring wetlands is essential for staying under 1.5°C.

#ClimateAction #NatureBasedSolutions

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💰 Wetlands generate up to $39 trillion/year in benefits. That’s nearly 36% of global GDP—yet they’re underfunded & undervalued.

@RamsarConv #GlobalWetlandOutlook makes the case: it’s time to invest in wetlands.

#InvestInNature #RestoreWetlands

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 💸 Degraded wetlands have already cost the world $5.1 trillion in lost services since 1970.

📉 These losses are mounting—but avoidable.

New @RamsarConv #GlobalWetlandOutlook2025 shows the cost of doing nothing is far higher than acting now.

#RestoreWetlands #InvestInNature

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 📈 To meet global goals, we must restore >350 million ha of degraded wetlands & conserve 428 million ha more.

@RamsarConv #GlobalWetlandOutlook2025 shows this is possible—but only with scaled-up funding & political will.

#RestoreWetlands #Wetlands2030

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 🌐 It will take $275–550 billion/year to restore and conserve wetlands globally.

Yet, nature conservation funding = just 0.25% of global GDP.

@RamsarConv #GlobalWetlandOutlook2025 calls for a new financing paradigm for wetlands.
#NatureFinance #RestoreWetlands

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🏞️ Wetlands provide critical services to people—flood protection, clean water, food, carbon storage & recreation.

But 25% of remaining wetlands are now degraded.

@RamsarConv #GlobalWetlandOutlook2025 shows urgent need for scaled-up restoration.

#WetlandsForPeople

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