Editing Wetland (section)

=== Climate change adaptation ===
{{Further|Climate change adaptation}}

The restoration of coastal blue carbon ecosystems is highly advantageous for [[climate change adaptation]], coastal protection, food provision and biodiversity conservation.<ref name=":6" />

Since the middle of the 20th century, human-caused [[climate change]] has resulted in observable changes in the global [[water cycle]].<ref name=":8">Arias, P.A., N. Bellouin, E. Coppola, R.G. Jones, G. Krinner, J. Marotzke, V. Naik, M.D. Palmer, G.-K. Plattner, J. Rogelj, M. Rojas, J. Sillmann, T. Storelvmo, P.W. Thorne, B. Trewin, K. Achuta Rao, B. Adhikary, R.P. Allan, K. Armour, G. Bala, R. Barimalala, S. Berger, J.G. Canadell, C. Cassou, A. Cherchi, W. Collins, W.D. Collins, S.L. Connors, S. Corti, F. Cruz, F.J. Dentener, C. Dereczynski, A. Di Luca, A. Diongue Niang, F.J. Doblas-Reyes, A. Dosio, H. Douville, F. Engelbrecht, V.  Eyring, E. Fischer, P. Forster, B. Fox-Kemper, J.S. Fuglestvedt, J.C. Fyfe, et al., 2021: [https://www.ipcc.ch/report/ar6/wg1/downloads/report/IPCC_AR6_WGI_TS.pdf Technical Summary] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220721021347/https://www.ipcc.ch/report/ar6/wg1/downloads/report/IPCC_AR6_WGI_TS.pdf |date=2022-07-21 }}. In [https://www.ipcc.ch/report/ar6/wg1/ Climate Change 2021: The Physical Science Basis. Contribution of Working Group I to the Sixth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210809131444/https://www.ipcc.ch/report/ar6/wg1/ |date=2021-08-09 }} [Masson-Delmotte, V., P. Zhai, A. Pirani, S.L. Connors, C. Péan, S. Berger, N. Caud, Y. Chen, L. Goldfarb, M.I. Gomis, M. Huang, K. Leitzell, E. Lonnoy, J.B.R. Matthews, T.K. Maycock, T. Waterfield, O. Yelekçi, R. Yu, and B. Zhou (eds.)]. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, United Kingdom and New York, NY, USA, pp. 33–144. doi:10.1017/9781009157896.002.</ref>{{rp|85}} A warming climate makes extremely wet and very dry occurrences more severe, causing more severe floods and droughts. For this reason, some of the ecosystem services that wetlands provide (e.g. water storage and flood control, groundwater replenishment, shoreline stabilization and storm protection) are important for climate change adaptation measures.<ref name=":52">{{Cite web |title=Fact Sheet: Blue Carbon |url=https://www.american.edu/sis/centers/carbon-removal/fact-sheet-blue-carbon.cfm |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210428062528/https://www.american.edu/sis/centers/carbon-removal/fact-sheet-blue-carbon.cfm |archive-date=April 28, 2021 |access-date=2021-04-28 |website=American University |language=en}}</ref> In most parts of the world and under all [[Climate change scenario#Emissions scenarios|emission scenarios]], water cycle variability and accompanying extremes are anticipated to rise more quickly than the changes of average values.<ref name=":8"/>{{rp|85}}