Tuesday 23rd October Lunch 13:15 – 14:30 (2) Title: Wetland Conservation and Restoration of China: Urban Wetlands and Small Wetlands China’s latest policies and actions on wetland conservation and restoration. Lead Organization: State Forestry and Grassland Administration of People's Republic of China Language: English Room: 5B (12) Title: Transboundary cooperation on Conservation of the Yellow/West Sea Intertidal and Associated Coastal Wetlands Progress and opportunities for transboundary cooperation. Lead Organization: International Union for Conservation of Nature Language: English Room: 7 (29) Title: Realizing synergies for biodiversity Presentation and discussion of the project “Realizing synergies for biodiversity” for further implementation until 2020 Lead Organization: UN Environment Language: English Room: 5A (62) Title: Celebration for the designation of new Ramsar Sites Commitments to wetland conservation and their wise use. Lead Organization: Ministry of the Environment, Japan (MOE-J) Language: English Room: 8 (70) Title: Designing wetlands conservation solutions: 3 case studies by Danone The protection of water resources by private partnerships. Lead Organization: Danone Language: English Room: 9 (80) From the oldest environmental convention to the most famous one: how do we get there? Enhancing the role of the Convention by increased and more regular participation of all stakeholders. Lead Organization: Swiss Federal Office for the Environment Language: English Room: 4
Wednesday 24th October Evening (45) Title: Assessment of the Implementation of Ramsar Convention and Mainstreaming Wetlands in Planning for Nile Basin Urban Wetlands Challenges, opportunities and lessons. Lead Organization: Rwanda Environment Management Authority (REMA) Language: English Room: 7 (49) Title: Mainstreaming wetland ecosystems in ECOWAS’s Water Infrastructure Directive implementation Reinforcing awareness of West African stakeholders on the issues of sustainable and inclusive development. Lead Organization: IUCN PACO Language: English Room: 8 (67) Title: World Wetlands Network Involvement and work towards establishing a meaningful participation of youth in the Ramsar Convention Lead Organization: A vision for YEW - Youth engaged in wetlands! Language: English Room: 9 (86) Achievements of the National Water Reserves Program in Mexico. A follow up of Resolution XII.12: challenges and advances Strengthening water management and securing natural conditions of wetlands. Lead Organization: World Wildlife Fund Language: English Room: 5B (9)Title: Reporting on the status and trends of the health of the world’s wetlands: the value of “citizen-science” surveys Lead Organization: Ramsar Section - Society of Wetland Scientists Language: English Room: 5A Thursday 25th October Lunch 13:15 – 14:30 (11) Title: Conserving Intertidal Wetlands for Coastal Resilience Lead Organization: Wetlands International Language: English Room: 5A (20) Title: Vulnerability Assessment of Iran Ramsar Sites and the role of the Hamoun wetland Presentation and use of this approach for reducing vulnerability Lead Organization: Department of Environment (Islamic republic of Iran) Language: English Room: 7 (27) Title: Mobilizing Social Resources to Promote Wetland Conservation A shared vision for wetland conservation and the role of the non-government sector. Lead Organization: Shenzhen Mangrove Wetlands Conservation Foundation (MCF), Wetlands (WIC) Language: English Room: 8 (40) Title: The Dugong and Seagrass Research Toolkit – a decision support tool for dugong, seagrass and human communities research Tools or techniques for answering seagrass related research questions Lead Organization: Convention on Migratory Species Dugong Memorandum of Understanding (CMS Dugong MoU)- and Environment Agency – Abu Dhabi Language: English Room: 5B (68) Title: Integrating Multiple Values of Wetlands in Management Planning and Decision Making Pathways for bridging knowledge on wetlands values to decision making for conservation and wise use. Lead Organization: Biodiversity Programme, GIZ India Language: English Room: 9 German
announcements from the United Arab Emirates Identifying important marine and coastal areas for biodiversity conservation and sustainable management. Lead Organization: The UAE government and Emirates Wildlife Society – WWF Language: English Room: # 5A Practical ways in which arts, humanities and social sciences can be used to achieve SDG3 in urban wetlands. Lead Organization: Greenwich Maritime Centre, University of Greenwich Language: English Room: # 7 Integration, awareness and commitments towards wetlands. Lead Organization: Secrétariat Permanent du Conseil National pour le Développement Durable (SP-CNDD) Language: French Room: # 8 Trends and evolution in four priority sites. Lead Organization: Direction des Protégées et du Littoral, Ministère de l'environnement et du developpement durable (MRT) Language: French Room: # 9 Challenges and opportunities associated with integrated resources management. Lead Organization: Direction Nationale des Eaux et Forêt (DNEF) - MALI Language: English Room: # 5B Sunday 28th October Evening (16) Title: Effects of agrochemicals on wetlands biodiversity in Asia: case study Mazandaran (by the Caspian Sea, Iran, (RAMSAR) Raising awareness on the situation of toxic pollution in wetlands and its effects on biodiversity. Lead Organization: University of Teheran Language: English Room: # Room 7 (81) Title: Furthering CEPA for the Conservation and Sustainable Management of Heavily Used Tropical Wetlands Steps an approaches followed that could be applied to other regions. Lead Organization: Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and the Environment (ATREE) Language: English Room: # 5 B 89) Title: Urban wetlands of the City of Kinshasa Province (DRC)-National Programme of integrated management of wetlands in the RDC Lead Organization: Université de Kinshasa Ministère de l'Environnement et Développement Durable / Direction des Ressources en Eau Language: French Room: 5A