1. QUANTIFYING TROPICAL WETLAND BIOMASS AND CARBON STOCKS
SWAMP is a USAID-funded climate change program implemented by the Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR) and USFS
SWAMP provides management agencies, policy makers, and scientists with credible scientific information needed to make sound decisions relating to the role of tropical wetlands in climate change adaptation and mitigation strategies.
QUANTIFYING TROPICAL WETLAND BIOMASS AND CARBON STOCKS

2. Sustainable Wetlands Adaptation and Mitigation Program (SWAMP)
Goal:
Provide management agencies, policy makers, and scientists with credible scientific information needed to make sound decisions relating to the role of tropical wetlands in climate change adaptation and mitigation strategies.
Objectives:
Quantify GHG emissions and C-stocks and changes
Develop models of ecosystem C-dynamics
Assess the roles of tropical wetland ecosystems in climate change adaptation
Build capacity and awareness among stakeholders
Inform restoration and conservation strategies

3. Why Wetlands? Wetlands are crucial in global C cycles
Sustainable Wetlands Adaptation and Mitigation Program (SWAMP)
Why Wetlands?
Wetlands are crucial in global C cycles
Some of the highest C stocks on the planet
Highest deforestation in tropics  GHG emissions
Wetlands provide numerous ecosystem services
Provisioning: food, fuel, fiber/wood
Supporting: production of terrestrial & aquatic life, nutrient accumulation
Regulating: climate, fresh water cycles, pollution
Cultural: aesthetic, recreational, educational, spiritual

4. Sustainable Wetlands Adaptation and Mitigation Program (SWAMP)
Geographic Scope
40 countries engaged to date
Note that the map does not include all the countries. You could say that some of the key partner countries are noted on this map

5. Sustainable Wetlands Adaptation and Mitigation Program (SWAMP)
The SWAMP Protocol
A proven technical approach for measuring, monitoring, & reporting mangrove carbon
Adopted internationally:
2013 Supplement to the IPCC Guidelines for National GHG Inventories: Wetlands
Adapted locally in multiple countries:
E.g., regional field guide for East Africa

6. SWAMP Addresses: Science gaps Resource management issues
Sustainable Wetlands Adaptation and Mitigation Program (SWAMP)
SWAMP Addresses:
Science gaps
Carbon stocks and dynamics
Mapping and monitoring
Prescriptions for sustainable management and restoration
Resource management issues
Threats
Sound policies
Science-based restoration of peatlands and mangroves
Science gaps: SWAMP conducts collaborative research with in-country partners
Resource management issues: SWAMP raises awareness of the importance of tropical wetlands to address threats and influence global and country-level policies
Restoration: SWAMP promotes science-based restoration of peatlands and mangroves

7. Sustainable Wetlands Adaptation and Mitigation Program (SWAMP)
Follow-Up Info
USFS Contacts
Beth Lebow,
Alex Moad,
Sasha Gottlieb,
Moses Jackson,
Website