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Protect and restore peatlands
https://www.imperial.ac.uk/Stories/9-ways-to-remove-carbon-dioxide-from-the-air-1/
Demonstrator Project: GGR-Peat 👉 https://www.youtube.com/embed/dzIpus-1K2c
UK Centre for Ecology and Hydrology
https://www.ceh.ac.uk/sites/default/files/Peatland%20factsheet.pdf
👇 Some Facts:
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Peatlands cover about 12% of the UK, which is one of the highest concentrations in the world.
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Peatlands store vast quantities of carbon: the world’s peatlands store twice as much carbon as the world’s forests.
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But around 80% of UK peatland has been affected due to human activities, turning them from net carbon sinks to net carbon sources.
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The Office for National Statistics estimates fully restoring the UK’s degraded peatlands could cost between £8bn-£22bn over the next 100 years, but would save £109bn in terms of reduced carbon emissions.
The IUCN UK Peatland Programme
https://www.iucn-uk-peatlandprogramme.org/
The IUCN UK has a hub of information & resources, including Videos, VR & Images
Scrollytelling storymaps
- Peatland Monitoring from Space:
https://storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/68ac541504fc4714b371b1a33e540c95
- A Journey Through our Upland Peatlands: A Carbon Connects Storymap
https://storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/1ae5fc048768492fb7c4e63bc2532d0e
Open-source Peatland Data:
https://www.data.gov.uk/search?q=peatland
The first comprehensive research into emissions from peatland areas in the UK:
https://naei.energysecurity.gov.uk/reports/implementation-emissions-inventory-uk-peatlands