World Wetlands Day is a day where people around the world celebrate wetlands and raise awareness about the importance of wetlands. Wetlands are known for their incredible ability to provide habitat for species, filter water, reduce or prevent flooding, serve as buffers for wildfires, and sequester carbon, making them critical for both climate change mitigation and adaptation, and biodiversity preservation.

I was very fortunate to be sponsored by BoyneClarke LLP, the law firm that hired me for my articles, to work at East Coast Environmental Law for the summer.  As a summer research student at ECEL, I had the opportunity to research what legal and policy tools are available to Nova Scotia’s municipalities to steward wetlands. Working at ECEL this summer made me more hopeful for Nova Scotia’s climate future, as I began to learn about opportunities available to protect our climate and natural areas that were previously unknown to me.