Report on peatland policy in North-West Europe

Well managed and healthy peatlands provide one of the most important opportunities to mitigate and adapt to climate change. Therefore, in these times of climate crisis, peatland’s potential to provide a long-term store and sink for carbon should be utilised as much as possible. Unfortunately, European policies and national policies have failed to protect peatlands,…

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Webinar – Peatlands in the new CAP

On Wednesday 3 June 2020, Wetlands International – Europe, the Greifswald Mire Centre and the National University of Ireland – Galway are co-organising a webinar on peatlands in the new Common Agricultural Policy (CAP). Fully functional and healthy wetlands are the most effective long-term carbon store and sink on the planet. The drainage of peatlands…

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Eurosite supports cross-project cooperation for European peatland conservation

Eurosite is one of the partners in the Care-Peat – Restoring the carbon storage capacity of peatland – project. Within the Interreg North-West Europe (NWE) programme, Care-Peat aims to reduce carbon emissions and restore the carbon storage capacity of different types of peatlands in North-West Europe. The main partnership consists of five knowledge institutes and…

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Open Care-Peat Project Team Meeting

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On September 27th and 28th 2019 Eurosite, as a project partner in charge of the international networking and dissemination, attended the second Care-Peat meeting in Dublin, Ireland. Following a productive project meeting Care-Peat welcomed a public meeting in the afternoon of September 27th. This open session, began with a welcome from Irish project partner Terry…

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