""From 28-30 May 2019, government officials from Cambodia, Lao PDR, Myanmar, Thailand and Viet Nam gathered in Bangkok to discuss the status and progress of wetland policies in the region. The discussion was part of a regional dialogue organised by the Indo-Burma Ramsar Regional Initiative (IBRRI), for which IUCN acts as the secretariat, and the Ramsar Regional Center East Asia (RRC-EA). “This event provided countries in the lower Mekong Region the opportunity to share experiences on current national and regional policy frameworks, and to understand how to mainstream ecosystem services provided by wetlands, into various sectoral policies, including ones related to climate change. During the development of the IBRRI strategic plan, all five countries suggested that regional policy dialogues were key to establishing effective wetland policies, ” said Mr. Raphaël Glémet, Senior Programme Officer on Water and Wetlands at IUCN Asia. The regional dialogue in Bangkok was organised following a series of ten climate change vulnerability assessments, implemented by IUCN and partner organisations under the Mekong WET project, to highlight climate change impacts on wetlands in the region. The assessments engaged community members, local NGOs, wetlands managers and governments to analyse species, ecosystem, and community vulnerabilities under future climate change projections. Assessment results highlighted that there are limited effective wetland policies in the region, thus threatening the long-term stability of these fragile ecosystems..."