The
Ramsar ArchivesSpeeches and Interviews from the Convention on Wetlands
2008
Anada Tiéga, Secretary General, Opening address to the 6th European Ramsar Meeting, Stockholm, Sweden, 3 May 2008
Anada Tiéga, Secretary General, 54th Ordinary Session of the Council of Ministers, Lake Chad Basin Commission, Abuja, Nigeria, 26 March 2008
Nick Davidson, Deputy Secretary General, Address to the CBD's SBSTTA-13, Rome, Italy, 20 February 2008
Anada Tiéga, Secretary General, Address to World Wetlands Day celebrations, Maun, Botswana, 2 February 2008
Anada
Tiéga , Secretary General, Address
to the Beijing International Conference on Combating Desertification, Beijing,
China, 22 January 2008
2007
Anada Tiéga , Secretary General, Address to the high-level segment of the UNFCCC COP13, Bali, Indonesia, 14 December 2007.
Peter Bridgewater, Secretary General, "Biodiversity, Climate Change, and the Influence of Wetlands," International Day for Biodiversity, Montreal, Canada, 22 May 2007.
2006
Peter Bridgewater, Secretary General, address to first meeting of the Parties to the Carpathian Convention, Kyiv, Ukraine, 13 December 2006.
Margarita Astrálaga, Senior Advisor for the Americas. Wetland conservation in Latin America: Interview by Katiana Murillo, Rainforest Alliance, April 2006, reprinted from Eco-Index. English and Spanish versions.
Peter Bridgewater, Secretary General. Brief interventions on "Cooperation with other conventions" and to the high-level segment, CBD COP8, Curitiba, Brazil, 28 March 2006
Nick Davidson, Deputy Secretary General. "The Ramsar Convention: wetlands and livelihoods", CBD COP8 side event on Wetlands, water & livelihoods, Curitiba, Brazil, 23 March 2006.
Margarita Astrálaga, Senior Advisor for the Americas. "La Convención Ramsar y los Ecosistemas de Manglar" -- presentation to the IV Taller Internacional CONyMA (Contaminación y Protección del Medio Ambiente), Campeche, México, 13-17 March 2006.
2005
Spyros Kouvelis, MedWet Coordinator. "Collaboration between CBD and the Ramsar Convention on wetlands: progress in the development of ecological assessments and indicators" -- Address to the CBD's SBSTTA10, Bangkok, Thailand, 8 February 2005.
2004
Tobias Salathé, Senior Advisor for Europe. Transboundary River Basin Management, Chisinau, Republic of Moldova, 16 September 2004
Peter Bridgewater, Secretary General. Signing of a Protocol of Cooperation with the Danone Group, Paris, France, 22 March 2004
Peter Bridgewater, Secretary General. Address to the opening session of the CBD's COP7, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, 9 February 2004
Nick
Davidson, Deputy Secretary General. Address
to the MedWet celebration event, World Wetlands Day, Athens, Greece, 2 February
2004
Peter Bridgewater, Secretary General. World Wetlands Day address at the Universidad de Guadalajara, Zapopan, Jalisco, 2 February 2004 [traducción en español]
Abou
Bamba, Senior Advisor for Africa,
World Wetlands Day address in Mopti,
Mali [français]
2003
Peter Bridgewater, Secretary General. Opening address to the Parliamentarians' meeting for West and Central Africa, Cotonou, Benin, 27 November 2003
Nick Davidson, Deputy Secretary General. Address to CBD's SBSTTA-9 on the STRP and Joint Work Plan, Montreal, Canada, 10 November 2003
Peter
Bridgewater, Secretary General. Keynote
address: 25th anniversary celebration of the Trilateral Wadden Sea Cooperation,
Wilhelmshaven, Germany, 22 October 2003.
Tobias Salathé. Climate change and wetlands: impacts, adaptation, and mitigation, Comacchio, Italy, 8 October 2003.
Margarita Astrálaga, Regional Coordinator for the
Americas. Declaración de la Convención
Ramsar sobre Humedales, COP6 of the UN Convention to Combat Desertification,
Habana, Cuba, 4 September 2003 (en Español).
Nick Davidson, Deputy Secretary General. Address to the 18th meeting of the UNFCCC's Subsidiary Body on Scientific and Technological Advice, Bonn, Germany, June 2003
Nick Davidson, Deputy Secretary General. Address to the 8th meeting of the CBD's Subsidiary Body on Scientific, Technical and Technological Advice, Montreal, Canada, March 2003
Delmar Blasco, former Secretary General. Address to the Governing Council of UNEP, Nairobi, Kenya, 4 February 2003
2002
Tobias
Salathé, Regional Coordinator for Europe. Address
to the Launch of A Strategy for the Heritage Management of Wetlands (Europae
Archaeologiae Consilium), Brussels, 22 January 2002
2001
Delmar
Blasco. Address to the 3rd
Board of Members meeting of Wetlands International, Wageningen,
The Netherlands, 29 November 2001
Spyros Kouvelis, Ramsar's MedWet Coordinator. Ramsar statement to UNFCCC's Subsidiary Body for Scientific and Technological Advice, 2001, Marrakesh, Morocco, 30 October 2001.
Anada Tiéga, former Regional Coordinator for Africa. Address to the 5th Conference of the Parties to the UN Convention to Combat Desertification, Geneva, Switzerland, 10 October 2001
Nick
Davidson. Statement
on cultural heritage of wetlands, European Archaeological Council,
2nd General Assembly, 22 March 2001
Delmar Blasco. Address to the 21st Session of the UNEP Governing Council / Global Ministerial Environment Forum, Nairobi, Kenya, 7 February 2001
Delmar Blasco. Addresses in Uganda during World Wetlands Day celebrations: Kampala, 1 February 2001 ("Launching of Uganda's Wetlands Sector Strategic Plan 2001-2010"), Lutembe Bay Wetlands, 2 February 2001
2000
David
Pritchard, RSPB and BirdLife International, on behalf of the Ramsar Convention.
Address to COP4 of the Convention to Combat Desertification, Bonn,
Germany, 20 December 2000
Delmar Blasco. Statement to the 6th COP of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, The Hague, The Netherlands, 20 November 2000.
Delmar Blasco. Address to the graduation ceremony, 7th International Course on Wetland Management, Lelystad, The Netherlands, 11 October 2000
Nick Davidson. Remarks on IUCN and climate change, World Conservation Congress, Amman, Jordan, 7 October 2000
Nick Davidson. MedWet 2000: The Mediterranean Wetlands Initiative at the dawn of the 21st century, INTECOL Symposium, Québec, Canada, 10 August 2000
Nick Davidson. Keynote address to the opening plenary of the Quebec 2000, the Millennium Wetland Event, Québec, Canada, 7 August 2000
Nick Davidson. Address to the 12th meeting of the UNFCCC's Subsidiary Body on Scientific and Technological Advice, Bonn, June 2000
Delmar Blasco. Address to the 5th COP of the Convention on Biological Diversity, Nairobi, Kenya, 15 May 2000
Bill Phillips, former Deputy Secretary General. Address to the 10th World Water Congress, Melbourne, Australia, March 2000
1999
Delmar Blasco. Address to the 3rd COP of the Convention to Combat Desertification, Recife, Brazil, 17 November 1999
Delmar Blasco. Address to the 5th COP of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, Bonn, Germany, 2 November 1999
Bill
Phillips. Address
to the 11th Session of the SBSTA, UN Framework Convention on Climate
Change, Bonn, Germany, 27 October 1999
Bill Phillips. BirdLife International World Conference, Malaysia, October 1999
Delmar Blasco. Address to Eurosite ceremony, The Netherlands, 24 September 1999
1998
Bill Phillips. 1st Oceania Ramsar Regional Meeting, Hamilton, New Zealand, December 1998
Delmar Blasco. Address to the 2nd COP of the Convention to Combat Desertification, Dakar, Senegal, 1 December 1998
Bill Phillips. Statement to the final plenary, 2nd International Conference on Wetlands and Development, Dakar, Senegal, November 1998
Bill Phillips. Keynote paper for Wetlands International Board, Dakar, Senegal, November 1998
Delmar Blasco. Statement to the SWS Symposium on Arctic to Tropical Peatlands, conveyed to the Society of Wetland Scientists symposium, Anchorage, Alaska, 9 June 1998
Delmar Blasco. Statement on the status of and prospects for the Convention on Wetlands, 3rd Pan-European Regional Meeting, Riga, Latvia, 3 June 1998 [version française]
Delmar
Blasco. Address
to the Opening Session, COP4, Convention on Biological Diversity,
Bratislav
a,
4 May 1998
Delmar Blasco. Address to plenary, International Conference on Water and Sustainable Development, Paris, France, 19 March 1998
Bill Phillips. Second Statement to the Commission on Sustainable Development Intersessional Ad hoc Working Group on Strategic Approaches to Freshwater Management, New York, 24 February 1998
Bill Phillips. Opening Statement to the Commission on Sustainable Development Intersessional Ad hoc Working Group on Strategic Approaches to Freshwater Management, New York, 23 February 1998
Delmar Blasco. "Discours du Secrétaire général sur l'initiative d'Evian" -- Paris, France, 27 January 1998 [English version]
1997
Bill Phillips. Ramsar's Intervention to the 1st COP of the Convention to Combat Desertification -- Rome, Italy, 10 October 1997
Delmar Blasco. "Wetlands and People: the Vital Link" -- interview with World Birdwatch (BirdLife International), v.19, no.3 (September 1997)
Mike
Smart, former Senior Policy Advisor. Opening
Statement -- delivered at the 3rd meeting of the CBD's Subsidiary
Body for Scientific, Technical, and Technological Advice, Montreal, Canada,
2 September 1997
Delmar Blasco. "The Potential of the Ramsar Convention on Wetlands" -- delivered to the International Conference "Naturschutz [inter]national", Vienna, Austria, 15 May 1997
Delmar Blasco. Welcoming Statement -- delivered to the West Africa Subregional Meeting, Dakar, Senegal, 12 May 1997 [version française]
Delmar Blasco. "Let's Listen to the Secrets of the Water" -- delivered to the Communities Working for Wetlands Conference, Alexandria, USA, 8 May 1997
Mike Smart. Interview with Maria José Viñal, Sehumed, vol. 1, no. 1 (March 1997)
1996
Delmar Blasco. "La Conservación de la Zonas Humedas" -- XIII Jornadas Ornitologica Españolas, Figueres (Girona), España, 4 de diciembre de 1996
Delmar Blasco."Ramsar in the Mediterranean" -- delivered at the Mediterranean Wetlands Conference, Venice, Italy, 5-9 June 1996
Delmar Blasco."Working Together for Wetlands" -- delivered at the 25th Anniversary Celebration, Washington, D.C., 25-26 April 1996
Delmar Blasco.Welcoming Statement -- delivered to the Opening Plenary Session of the 6th Ramsar COP, Brisbane, Australia, 19 March 1996
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Posted 19 March 1996, most recently updated 5 May 2008, Dwight Peck, Ramsar.
