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T1 Peatlands Rewetting, Restoration and Conservation Offers a low-cost, Low-tech, High Impact Nature-Based Solution for Climate Action
A1 United Nations Environment Programme, 
K1 peatland
K1 nature conservation
K1 ecosystem
K1 wetland
K1 land-based resource
K1 climate change
K1 Land
YR 2019
FD 2019
LK https://wedocs.unep.org/handle/20.500.11822/28893
UL https://wedocs.unep.org/handle/20.500.11822/28893
NO The Global Peatlands Initiative is a partnership of 28 organizations aiming to reduce global greenhouse gas emissions and save thousands of lives by protecting peatlands, the world’s largest terrestrial-soil organic carbon stock. Despite the growing momentum to mobilize governments, international organizations and academia in a targeted effort to protect peatlands, there is still a need for more countries, policy makers and senior level government technical advisors to become aware of the urgency of action to prevent the loss of peatlands to fires, degradation through drainage or disturbance and agricultural conversion. The protection of permafrost and other boreal and temperate peatlands is extremely important, yet has been a somewhat overlooked area for climate action.
DS UN Environment Document Repository
RD Sep 18, 2026