Peat
Peat (), sometimes known as turf (), is an accumulation of partially decayed vegetation or organic matter. It is unique to natural areas called peatlands, bogs, mires, moors, or muskegs. The peatland ecosystem covers 3.7 million square kilometres (1.4 million square miles) and is the most efficient carbon sink on the planet, because peatland plants capture CO2 naturally released from the peat, maintaining an equilibrium. In natural peatlands, the "annual rate of biomass production is greater than the rate of decomposition", but it takes "thousands of years for peatlands to develop the deposits of 1.5 to 2.3 m [4.9 to …
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EPRS: European Parliamentary Research Service · 25 April 2024 English
This study analyses the present and future of the European electricity and gas infrastructure, exploring production capacity scenarios and their impact on the electricity system (including the role of interconnections, …
fuels (hard coal, brown coal, coke, briquettes, and peat). Gas production has dwindled by over two-thirds …
IISD: International Institute for Sustainable Development · 23 April 2024 English
The use of voluntary sustainability standards (VSSs) and similar systems in free trade agreements (FTAs) is gaining traction. Will it lead to more sustainable production and consumption globally? Our experts …
and related ecosystems, halting deforestation, peat drainage and fire clearing in land preparation, …
Blavatnik School of Government · 22 April 2024 English
10 THE CHANDLER SESSIONS PAPERS An Example of Integrity Gap Analysis: Report of the Auditor General of Nepal For the Auditor General of Nepal, integrity gaps are revealed, in part, …
Ministry of Finance, and supervisory senior for KPMG Peat Marwick. An honours graduate in economics of the …
Community Foundation of Tyne & Wear, and Northumberland · 22 April 2024 English
Of course, this report is and extent of diseases affecting humans, concerned primarily with North East England animals and plants.iii And alongside this came and the role of philanthropy here, …
regulators of atmospheric carbon dioxide are trees and peat bogs, but human activity has reduced their extent …
World Bank Group · 22 April 2024 English
a range of natural resources including forest, peat swamp forest and mangrove, rivers, coastal resources …
PICES: North Pacific Marine Science Organization · 17 April 2024 English
All names and claims expressed in this book of abstracts are solely those of the authors and do not represent those of the PICES Organization, nor those of their affiliated …
Rachel 2,3,4 1,2 5 6 2,4 Kelly , Cayne Layton , Peat Leith , Vicki Martin , Jess Melbourne-Thomas , David …
World Bank Group · 17 April 2024 English
ID-DIL-253705-CS-QCBS / TA Study of Lowland Developme nt and Peat Restoration IBRD / 88910 Component C: Project Mana …
UNEP FI: United Nations Environment Programme Finance Initiative · 16 April 2024
Disclaimer The designations employed and the presentation of material in this publication do not imply the expression of any opinion whatsoever on the part of the Secretariat of the United …
combustion engine vehicles ◾ No-deforestation, no-peat and no-exploitation (NDPE)20 ◾ Support for enhancement …
PIK: Potsdam-Institut fur Klimafolgenforschung · 11 April 2024 English
The rapid growth of clean energy technologies is driving a rising demand for critical minerals. In 2022 at the 15th Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity …
ingestion by orangutans on germination success of peat forest plants. Biol. J. Linn. Soc. 123, 125–134 …
CE Delft · 10 April 2024 English
The costs to society are considered as ‘external costs’ by producers and consumers: yet society pays the bill in the form of a reduction of the overall level of welfare. …
— Carbon dioxide: the authors focus on drained peat soils, of which the carbon reservoir can be preserved … Agri-footprint processes. Dairy cattle: emissions of peat land We use the Dutch Agri-footprint-dataset as …
