﻿ Ramsar Convention - Speeches  Climate change and deltas --
seminar in Italy, 8-9 October 2003    "Climatic change and
foreseeable impacts on deltas: a new challenge for the
conservation of protected areas"  Comacchio, 8 October 2003 -
Delta chiama Delta Association/MedCoast  Climate change and
wetlands: impacts, adaptation, and mitigation  by Dr Tobias
Salathé, Convention on Wetlands Ramsar Bureau, 28 rue Mauverney,
CH-1196 Gland, Switzerland, salathe@ramsar.org  This
presentation conveys some key messages elaborated over the last
few years by the contracting parties (currently 138 countries
throughout the world) to the Convention on Wetlands (adopted in
Ramsar, Iran, 1971). So far, managers of water and protected
areas have paid little attention to the expected impacts of
climate change on future water resources and the consequences
for the management of downstream wetland ecosystems. However,
climate change is here and will be with us for a long time to
come. We are faced with a great destabilization and