A report on the policy options to include peatlands in UN-climate policies. Produced as input for Wetlands International’s policy activities during the UNFCCC climate summit […]

Film of Wetlands International on peatland loss, CO2 emission, and how to restore the degraded wastelands. This film shows our restoration work in Kalimantan (Borneo), […]

In this paper, Wetlands International presents its agenda for the new climate treaty that is being discussed in Accra, Ghana (August 2008). The paper focuses […]

This booklet provides you with a all the most recent facts and figures about peatlands, with a focus on tropical peatlands. Subjects that are explained […]

This paper presents our views on the issues on the agenda of the Convention of Biological Diversity, COP 9, in Bonn, May 2008. Wetlands International […]

This is the submission of Wetlands International to the “Ad Hoc Working Group on Long-Term Cooperative Action under the Convention”; the working group working on […]

Short movie in which NGO Wetlands International alerts that the destruction of the world’s peatlands leads to huge CO2 emissions and that it is therefore […]

Cartoon depiction of Wetlands International’s concerns on the degradation of tropical peatlands and the importance of UNFCCC in tackling this issue.

In this article we publisch the findings of the Peat-CO2 study of Delft Hydraulics, Wetlands International and Alterra for the 12th UN-FCCC summit, Nairobi 2006. […]

This report presents shocking figures on CO2 emissions from drained peatland areas. These areas were once swamp forests. Due to extensive drainage for logging, palm oil plantations […]