Peatlands, climate change mitigation and biodiversity conservation - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Peatlands, climate change mitigation and biodiversity conservation write by Hans Joosten. This book was released on 2015-04-27. Peatlands, climate change mitigation and biodiversity conservation available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Did you know that • peatlands hold more carbon than all forests of the world combined? • drained peatlands are responsible for 25% of total CO2 emissions in the Nordic and Baltic countries? • rewetting of peatlands substantially reduces these emissions? This policy brief pleads for increased commitments to conserving and rewetting peatlands; for abolishing regulations that drive peatland drainage; for changing drained peatland use to paludicultures; and for setting up good practice demonstration projects. It stresses the need for better communicating the benefits of wet peatlands and the costs arising from damaged ones. Finally it highlights the role of peatland rewetting and restoration in reaching national and international policy targets for climate change mitigation, water quality improvement and biodiversity conservation.
Peatlands, climate change mitigation and biodiversity conservation
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Synergy in conservation of biodiversity and climate change mitigation: Nordic peatlands and forests
Synergy in conservation of biodiversity and climate change mitigation: Nordic peatlands and forests - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Synergy in conservation of biodiversity and climate change mitigation: Nordic peatlands and forests write by Dinesen, Lars. This book was released on 2021-04-22. Synergy in conservation of biodiversity and climate change mitigation: Nordic peatlands and forests available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Available online: https://pub.norden.org/temanord2021-510/ We are facing two global environmental crises, the loss of biodiversity and climate change. Both crises should be handled within the forthcoming decades. Actions implemented to mitigate one challenge should not worsen the other. The two crises are interlinked. Biodiversity, together with geophysical and climatic factors form and maintain ecosystems, which contribute to climate change mitigation by capturing CO2 and store carbon. But the current climate change worsen the negative impact of the main drivers causing biodiversity loss. This leads to further degradation of ecosystems, which in turn may weaken the functionality of ecosystems that reduce the ability of nature to capture and store carbon. The project identified eight cases related to nature-based solutions enacted in the Nordic countries and identifies synergies between biodiversity conservation and climate change mitigation.
Peatlands
Peatlands - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Peatlands write by Hans Joosten. This book was released on 2012. Peatlands available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "Mitigation of Climate Change in Agriculture (MICCA) Programme, October 2012."
Peatlands and Climate in a Ramsar context
Peatlands and Climate in a Ramsar context - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Peatlands and Climate in a Ramsar context write by Alexandra Barthelmes. This book was released on 2015-06-09. Peatlands and Climate in a Ramsar context available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Peatlands in the Nordic Baltic region and elsewhere in the world store large amounts of carbon and are at the same time important for conservation of biodiversity. Thus peatlands are space-effective carbon stocks, but when drained carbon and nitrogen are released as greenhouse gases to the atmosphere and as nitrate to the surface water, while methane will be released when rewetting. New knowledge reveals that one of the most efficient means to mitigate emissions of greenhouse gases to the atmosphere are the restoration of drained peatlands by reestablish former high water tables on organic soils.This project on synergies between climate change mitigation and the restoration of peatlands has been conducted under a regional Ramsar initiative covering the Nordic and Baltic countries (NorBalWet), with support from the Nordic Council of Ministers. The report contains chapters on peatlands and their role in climate change mitigation, individual country chapters and the role of the Ramsar Convention.
