COP13 Resolutions
The Conference of the Contracting Parties adopted 25 Resolutions at its 13th meeting.
The meeting documents, including draft resolutions, daily reports and information documents, can be accessed here. Full proceedings of the meeting will be published shortly.
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29 October 2018
Resolution XIII.1: World Wetlands Day
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Resolution XIII.2: Financial and budgetary matters
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Resolution XIII.3: Governance of the Convention
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Resolution XIII.4: Responsibilities, roles and composition of the Standing Committee and regional categorization of countries under the Convention
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Resolution XIII.5: Review of the fourth Strategic Plan of the Ramsar Convention
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Resolution XIII.6: Language strategy for the Convention
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Resolution XIII.7: Enhancing the Convention’s visibility and synergies with other multilateral environmental agreements and other international institutions
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Resolution XIII.8: Future implementation of scientific and technical aspects of the Convention for 2019-2021
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Resolution XIII.9: Ramsar Regional Initiatives 2019-2021
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Resolution XIII.10: Status of Sites in the Ramsar List of Wetlands of International Importance
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Resolution XIII.11: Ramsar Advisory Missions
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Resolution XIII.12: Guidance on identifying peatlands as Wetlands of International Importance (Ramsar Sites) for global climate change regulation as an additional argument to existing Ramsar criteria
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Resolution XIII.13: Restoration of degraded peatlands to mitigate and adapt to climate change and enhance biodiversity and disaster risk reduction
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Resolution XIII.14: Promoting conservation, restoration and sustainable management of coastal blue-carbon ecosystems
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Resolution XIII.15: Cultural values and practices of indigenous peoples and local communities and their contribution to climate-change mitigation and adaptation in wetlands
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Resolution XIII.16: Sustainable urbanization, climate change and wetlands
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Resolution XIII.17: Rapidly assessing wetland ecosystem services
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Resolution XIII.18: Gender and wetlands
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Resolution XIII.19: Sustainable agriculture in wetlands (Corrected on 15 February 2019 by addition of footnote)
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Resolution XIII.20: Promoting the conservation and wise use of intertidal wetlands and ecologically-associated habitats
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Resolution XIII.21: Conservation and management of small wetlands
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Resolution XIII.22: Wetlands in West Asia
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Resolution XIII.23: Wetlands in the Arctic and sub-Arctic
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Resolution XIII.24: The enhanced conservation of coastal marine turtle habitats and the designation of key areas as Ramsar Sites
29 October 2018