Ramsar Convention Secretariat

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environmental governance body international organization secretariat treaty secretariat

The Ramsar Convention Secretariat is the administrative body that coordinates and supports the implementation of the international treaty for the conservation and wise use of wetlands worldwide.

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All labels observed (4)

Label	Occurrences
Ramsar Convention Secretariat canonical	3
Ramsar Secretariat	2
Ramsar Convention on Wetlands	1
Secretariat of the Ramsar Convention	1

Statements (51)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	environmental governance body ⓘ international organization secretariat ⓘ treaty secretariat ⓘ
abbreviation	Ramsar Convention Secretariat self-linksurface differs ⓘ surface form: Ramsar Secretariat
administers	Ramsar Convention ⓘ surface form: Convention on Wetlands of International Importance especially as Waterfowl Habitat Ramsar Convention ⓘ
alsoKnownAs	Ramsar Convention Secretariat ⓘ surface form: Secretariat of the Ramsar Convention
appliesToJurisdiction	Contracting Parties to the Ramsar Convention ⓘ
cooperatesWith	Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity ⓘ surface form: Convention on Biological Diversity Secretariat UNEP/CMS Secretariat ⓘ surface form: Convention on Migratory Species Secretariat Food and Agriculture Organization ⓘ surface form: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations UNESCO Man and the Biosphere Programme ⓘ World Heritage Centre ⓘ surface form: UNESCO World Heritage Centre United Nations Environment Programme ⓘ
coordinatesImplementationOf	Ramsar Convention ⓘ
country	Switzerland ⓘ
fieldOfWork	biodiversity conservation ⓘ international environmental governance ⓘ multilateral environmental agreements ⓘ wetland conservation ⓘ wise use of wetlands ⓘ
governedBy	Conference of the Contracting Parties to the Ramsar Convention ⓘ
hasHeadquartersLocation	Gland, Switzerland ⓘ
hasOffice	Gland, Switzerland ⓘ
hasParentOrganization	Conference of the Contracting Parties to the Ramsar Convention ⓘ
hasPart	Administrative, Finance and Communications units ⓘ Ramsar Regional Initiatives support unit ⓘ Science and Policy unit ⓘ
hostedBy	IUCN ⓘ surface form: International Union for Conservation of Nature
language	English ⓘ French ⓘ Spanish ⓘ
locatedIn	Canton of Vaud ⓘ Lake Geneva region ⓘ
name	Ramsar Convention Secretariat self-link ⓘ
purpose	to assist Contracting Parties in meeting their obligations under the Ramsar Convention ⓘ to coordinate and support the implementation of the Ramsar Convention ⓘ to facilitate international cooperation on wetlands ⓘ to promote the conservation and wise use of wetlands ⓘ
reportsTo	Conference of the Contracting Parties to the Ramsar Convention ⓘ
responsibleFor	coordinating technical and scientific work under the Ramsar Convention ⓘ day-to-day administration of the Ramsar Convention ⓘ maintaining the List of Wetlands of International Importance ⓘ organizing meetings of the Conference of the Contracting Parties ⓘ providing guidance on the wise use of wetlands ⓘ servicing the Ramsar Standing Committee ⓘ supporting national focal points of the Ramsar Convention ⓘ supporting the designation of Ramsar Sites ⓘ
sector	intergovernmental environmental organization ⓘ
supportsImplementationOf	Ramsar Convention ⓘ
website	https://www.ramsar.org ⓘ

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Instruction

You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10.

# Requirements
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- If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list.
- Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf".
- Do not get too wordy.
- Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.

Input

Subject: Ramsar Convention Secretariat
Description of subject: The Ramsar Convention Secretariat is the administrative body that coordinates and supports the implementation of the international treaty for the conservation and wise use of wetlands worldwide.

Referenced by (7)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Gland, Switzerland → headquartersLocationOf → Ramsar Convention Secretariat ⓘ

Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services → cooperatesWith → Ramsar Convention Secretariat ⓘ

this entity surface form: Ramsar Convention on Wetlands

Ramsar Wetland of International Importance → monitoredBy → Ramsar Convention Secretariat ⓘ

this entity surface form: Ramsar Secretariat

Ramsar Convention Secretariat → name → Ramsar Convention Secretariat self-link ⓘ

Ramsar Convention Secretariat → alsoKnownAs → Ramsar Convention Secretariat ⓘ

this entity surface form: Secretariat of the Ramsar Convention

Ramsar Convention Secretariat → abbreviation → Ramsar Convention Secretariat self-linksurface differs ⓘ

this entity surface form: Ramsar Secretariat

Ramsar Convention → secretariat → Ramsar Convention Secretariat ⓘ