Global Peatland Hotspot Atlas: The State of the World's Peatlands in Maps - Key Messages

This key messages document outlines eleven major findings on the condition, importance, and threats facing global peatlands. It highlights their critical role in carbon storage, biodiversity conservation, and water regulation, while identifying major pressures from drainage, agriculture, infrastructure, and fire. The document points to peatland degradation hotspots and calls for urgent action through better data, stronger policies, restoration investment, international cooperation, and recognition of Indigenous Peoples and local communities as key stewards of peatland ecosystems.