Posts Tagged ‘peatlands’
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…
Read MorePosition Paper: Preserve peatlands in post-2020 CAP
A consortium of 23 organisations, lead by the Greifswald Mire Centre, the National University of Ireland, Galway and the Wetlands International European Association, call on the preservation of peatlands in the post-2020 Common Agricultural Policy. Peatlands have been drained extensively for agriculture, forestry and peat extraction, which has lead to emissions of substantial amounts of…
Read MoreThird Care-Peat meeting: science, soil and sunshine
The third meeting of the Care-Peat project took place on 4 and 5 February 2020 in Deurne, the Netherlands. Following a productive project meeting, during which the the progress and future of the project was discussed, the meeting transformed into a public workshop with presentation, discussions and an excursion to the Deurnsche Peel-Mariapeel. The open…
Read MoreEurosite has joined the global peatlands initiative
Eurosite has officially become a member of the Global Peatlands Initiative (GPI), a partnership of now 34 organisations! The Global Peatlands Initiative was formed in 2016 in an effort to save peatlands as the world’s most important stock of terrestrial carbon. It aims to protect and conserve peatlands, and prevent them from becoming carbon sources instead…
Read MorePolicy Brief Peatland Strategies in Europe
On 28 and 29 October, the Federal Agency for Nature Conservation (BfN) and the Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety (BMU) of Germany, together with the Ramsar Convention Secretariat and the Michael Succow Foundation, organised a best-practice exchange workshop on European Peatland Strategies. Experts and peatlands stakeholders from over 12 EU…
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