There is limited time to save the world’s wetlands and mitigate the impact of climate change, environmental leaders warned at the opening to a worldwide conference on wetlands.

Wetlands are being destroyed at three times the rate of forests, even though they can store twice as much carbon.

Wetland loss will have heavy economic, security and social consequences, cautioned Martha Urrego, the Secretary General of the Ramsar Convention on Wetlands.

“If we lose wetlands we lose our possibility to achieve sustainable and equitable development,” said Ms Urrego. “We know that the demand for water is increasing, that we have a predicted gap in water supply and that if we don’t take care of wetlands we are going to endanger the possibility of achieving solutions that benefit all.”
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