Urgent need to focus on wetlands as natural solutions to global
water crisis Malheureusement, il n'y a pas de version française
de ce document. Geneva, Switzerland | 1 February 2013. A report
on the Economics of Ecosystem and Biodiversity for Water and
Wetlands urges a major shift in our attitudes to wetlands, to
recognise their value in delivering water, raw materials and
food, essential for life, and crucial for maintaining people’s
livelihoods and the sustainability of the world’s economies. The
report, The Economics of Ecosystem and Biodiversity (TEEB) for
Water and Wetlands, was launched today on the occasion of World
Wetlands Day by the Ramsar Convention Secretariat, the United
Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), the Institute for European
Environmental Policy (IEEP), the International Union for
Conservation of Nature (IUCN), Wetlands International and the
Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research (UFZ), with the
support of the Swiss Federal Office for the Environment (FOEN)
and the Geneva Environme