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Peat dam to prevent Indonesia Forest Fire (DCIM\219MEDIA) RESEARCHERS FROM Scotland’s Rural College are taking part in an international project to tackle climate risks to tropical peatlands. Emissions from damaged peatlands account for 5% of the global carbon budget, with the majority coming from tropical peatlands which are recognised as “the world’s most important terrestrial carbon store”. Co-led by the United Nations Environment Programme’s (UNEP) Global Peatlands Initiative and Scotland’s Rural College (SRUC), new research aims to understand how governments, researchers and local communities can work together to tackle climate risks to peatlands in Indonesia, Peru and the Congo Basin. ....
A Synthesis and Way Forward 17 December 2020, 02.00-04.30 PM (GMT+7) Home » Events » A Synthesis and Way Forward Menu Introduction The global extent of tropical peatlands and peat swamp forests is relatively small, yet these ecosystems play an important role in the global carbon (C) cycle. Peatlands cover only 3% of earth’s land surface, however, peatland can store twice as much C as all the world’s forests. Peatlands also provide numerous ecosystem services ranging from regulating (climate, flood, and pollution abatement), provisioning (food, fibre, water, genetic resources), supporting (biodiversity, primary production, nutrient cycling), and socio-cultural (cultural use, recreation, education). Despite their importance, peatlands have been degraded, drained and burned, mainly for agricultural and forestry purposes. Peatland degradation contributes ~ 2 billion metric tons of carbon dioxide per year to the atmosphere. Indonesia has pledged to rest ....