There is a “mismatch” between the importance of peatlands and their current level of protection, a new study warns.

Peatlands are important — the UN Environment Programme estimates as much as 600 billion tonnes of carbon are stored there, as decaying organic material gets trapped inside a water-rich environment.

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Conserving and restoring Southeast Asia’s carbon-rich peatlands and mangroves could mitigate more than 50 per cent of the region’s land-use carbon emissions, according to a new international ...

SINGAPORE, Feb. 10, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Conserving and restoring Southeast Asia's carbon-rich peatlands and mangroves could mitigate more than 50 per cent of the region's land-use carbon emissions, ...

said that what needs to be done on the ground is to map out the completely intact peatlands, slightly degraded sites, and completely degraded ones under threat. “Prioritise the easy ones first ...

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