RT Report
T1 Smoke on Water: Countering Global Threats from Peatland Loss and Degradation - A Rapid Response Assessment. Revised Edition
T2 De la fumée sur l'eau: Lutter contre les menaces mondiales liées à la destruction et à la dégradation des tourbières - Evaluation en vue d'une intervention rapide. Edition revisée
A1 United Nations Environment Programme, 
A2 Crump, John
A2 Avagyan, Armine
A2 Baker, Elaine
A2 Barthelmes, Alexandra
A2 Velarde, Cisneros
A2 Dargie, Greta
A2 Guth, Miriam
A2 Hergoualc’h, Kristell
A2 Johnson, Lisa
A2 Joosten, Hans
A2 Kopansky, Dianna
A2 Miles, Lera
A2 Minayeva, Tatiana
A2 Montanarella, Luca
A2 Nuutinen, Maria
A2 van Paddenburg, Annawati
A2 Peters, Jan
A2 Rangel, Shaenandhoa Garcia
A2 Richards, Joanna
A2 Salathe, Tobias
A2 Schoolmeester, Tina
A2 Silvius, Marcel
K1 peatland
K1 land degradation
K1 carbon
K1 water pollution
K1 Mongolia
K1 Democratic Republic of the Congo
K1 peat
K1 peat extraction
K1 drainage
K1 Indonesia
K1 biodiversity
K1 climate change
K1 land reclamation
K1 Scotland
K1 Peru
SN 978-82-7701-168-4
YR 2017
FD 2017
LK https://wedocs.unep.org/handle/20.500.11822/22919
UL https://wedocs.unep.org/handle/20.500.11822/22919
NO More than 180 countries have peatlands but we are only just starting to understand their role in both climate change and our efforts to curb it. Peatlands cover less than three percent of the Earth’s surface but are the largest terrestrial organic carbon stock – storing twice as much carbon as in the world’s forests. In fact, greenhouse gas emissions from drained or burned peatlands account for five percent of the global carbon budget. This first report from the Global Peatlands Initiative highlights why the threat to peatlands from agriculture, forestry, resource extraction and infrastructure development is a threat to the climate.
DS UN Environment Document Repository
RD Sep 20, 2026