Peatlands [electronic resource] : guidance for climate change mitigation through conservation, rehabilitation and sustainable use / Hans Joosten, Marja-Liisa Tapio-Biström & Susanna Tol (eds.)
"Peatland drainage - mainly for agriculture, grazing and forestry - and peat fires are responsible for almost one quarter of carbon emissions from the land use sector. Peatlands and organic soils contain 30 percent of the world's soil carbon but only cover 3 percent of the Earth's lan...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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[Rome] :
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations : Wetlands International,
2012.
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| Edition: | 2nd ed. |
| Series: | Mitigation of climate change in agriculture series ;
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- Implementation. Keep wet peatlands wet: conservation
- Keep wet peatlands wet: paludiculture
- Rewetting and restoration of drained peatlands
- Adapted management of drained peatlands in productive use
- Hazard control on abandoned drained peatlands
- Conflicts and synergies
- Finance options. Reducing emissions from peatlands within the UNFCCC framework
- Climate initiatives for peatlands under the European Union
- Voluntary carbon market
- Global Environmental Facility (GEF)
- Policy recommendations to overcome obstacles to finance options
- MRV and practical solutions. What are peatlands and organic soils
- Recent reviews of peatland emissions
- IPCC guidance
- Guidance provided by the voluntary market
- Practical solutions for challenges
- Practical solutions for meeting REDD+ safeguard commitments in peatland areas
- Country-wide overview of opportunities. Southeast Asia: Indonesia and Malaysia
- European Union: Poland and the United Kingdom
- Eastern Europe: Belarus, the Russian Federation and Ukraine
- Central Asia: China and Mongolia
- Africa: Congo Basin and Uganda
- Amazon Basin: Brazil, the Guyanas and Peru
- References.