The Convention on Wetlands is central to our work. We aim to influence and enable the convention and its meetings every three years
- We base our strategy on the three-year cycle between Ramsar COPs.
- We communicate with the Ramsar Secretariat and the Ramsar Regional Initiatives and Centres.
We started our preparation for COP15 in April 2024, with a visioning workshop. See the agenda and summary.
News about WWN and the Convention
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Path to COP15, 2024 phase
Wetlands COP15 is to be hosted by Zimbabwe at the town of Victoria Falls, in the last week of July 2025. It will be followed five months later by UNFCCC COP 29 in Baku, and may be a useful input to that for IOPs and WWN members, especially in Central Asia. We held two visioning workshops…
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Support a youth focal point!
A new role was created at the last wetland COP: Youth Focal Point. The Youth Focal Point can be from government or civil society. We hope you feel able to contact your National Focal Points and encourage them to appoint someone. This may be a young person in your NGO. If the government appoints one…
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Planning for COP15
The next Conference of Parties to the Convention on Wetlands, COP15, will be held in July 2025 in Zimbabwe. WWN will start preparations with an online workshop on 16 April 2024. Register for 07.00 UTC, 16 April 2024 (timezone converter here). Register for 16.00 UTC, 16 April 2024 (timezone converter here). We invite WWN members…
What is Ramsar and how does WWN work with it?
See 2022 resources on the COP14 page.
Learn about our 2018 activities at COP13.