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The report describes the negative environmental impacts (greenhouse gas emission) caused by peatland drainage and presents the practical management system to reduce these negative impacts with several case studies.

A 2007 study by Susan Page of the University of Leicester found that one ton of palm oil produced on peatland generates 15 to 70 tons of carbon dioxide, largely the result of deforestation and draining of peatlands, making palm oil - based - biofuels produced by peatlands conversion worse for climate than burning of conventional fossil fuels.

Not exact matches

RSPO's plans for 2018 build on a milestone 2017, where the first ever RSPO Next — that is, a stricter variation of RSPO rules that prohibit deforestation and peatland development, among other things — was attained by Malaysian firm United Plantations and Colombian company Daabon; and zoos and aquariums all over the world started a movement to educate consumers on sustainable palm oil.

«These new members will continue to support the transformation of the palm oil sector by demonstrating innovation to implement RSPO existing standards as well as additional critical requirements, such as ending deforestation, the development of peatlands and gross labour and human rights violations.»

Nevertheless, forest conversions should be avoided by all means when it comes to peatland, which is especially prevalent in oil palm - growing regions.

«The first full year of measurements on a peatland showed that it is losing twice as much mercury gas back to the atmosphere as is being deposited on the peatland by the rain.

The study, which involved collaboration with British Trust for Ornithology, Aberystwyth University and the University of Leeds and part - funded by the RSPB, showed that the humble crane fly, more commonly known as «daddy longlegs», is a crucial link in determining the impact of climate change on these peatland bird species.

Based on a peatland model developed at the University of York and latest climate change predictions, the researchers warn that by 2051 - 80 the dunlin could see a 50 % decline in numbers, with the golden plover down 30 % and the red grouse down by 15 %, all driven by declining abundance of the birds» crane fly prey.

«Large - scale peatland restoration projects such as the Sustainable Catchment Management Project run by United Utilities and RSPB are crucial in helping to make our blanket bogs resilient to climate change.»

The worst smoke, like that in Riau, is caused by smouldering peatlands, which can burn for weeks or months.

In compiling its report, the commission drew on data from the National Peatland Resource Inventory, drawn up by Richard Lindsay of the Nature Conservancy Council for Scotland to conclude that there are 67 000 hectares of surviving raised peatland in Britain, but that no more than a tenth of this is close to pristine condition, with a full range of plants and animals and water tables undamaged by drainage.

This assumption, however, was contradicted by scientists from the University of Eastern Finland a decade ago, when they discovered that bare peat surfaces in permafrost peatlands are releasing high amounts of N2O, despite the general nitrogen limitation of tundra ecosystems.

* Report of Commission on Inquiry into Peat and Peatlands, published by Plantlife, Natural History Museum, London.

Sommerville told the International Peatlands Convention in Edinburgh last week that by damming the drains and removing trees from these areas it would be possible to restore the original flow of water through the bogs — and their original flora and fauna.

Ecological responses to forest age, habitat, and host vary by mycorrhizal type in boreal peatlands — Peter G. Kennedy — Mycorrhiza

A the press - conference in honor of the World Day to Combat Desertification, the Head of Biological and Landscape Diversity of the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environmental Protection of the Republic of Belarus Ms. Natalia Minchenko noted that the experience of Belarus with rewetting as a one of the elements of ecological rehabilitation of degraded peatlands is being picked up by other countries of Central and Eastern Europe.

Recent drone footage shot by Greenpeace in Indonesia shows devastation on an astounding scale — combusted rain forest and peatlands smoldering to the horizon.

• Suspension of natural forest clearance which applies to all suppliers • Protection of all forests, including those on peatland • Adoption of international best practice for rights of indigenous peoples and local communities • Independent monitoring by NGOs

Without the safeguard, REDD monies projected to help developing countries protect their remaining forests and reduce the 25 percent of global greenhouse gas emissions caused by deforestation, forest degradation and peatland destruction could instead allow industrial - scale logging and replacement of tropical forests with pulp or palm oil plantations.

Research commissioned by RAN in 2010 estimated that APP's emissions from paper production on peatlands were 16 — 21 tons of carbon dioxide per ton of paper, or 500 times the figure put forth by the company at the time.

This threatens food security in poor countries and is also likely to contribute to higher emissions, as farmers respond to higher prices by expanding production, sometimes into rainforest or peatland.

Simply by not draining peatlands — and around 780,000 hectares a year of these are lost to plantations — humans could conserve 678 million tonnes of carbon a year by 2030, which would be much the same as taking 145 million cars off the roads.

This negligence led to forest clearing and peatland destruction and helped trigger global warming, «causing material and immaterial losses to all the residents of Riau Province who have been affected by the impacts of climate change,» Suryadi said.

«By incentivizing local economies, having strong community empowerment and increasing knowledge on sustainable peatland management we can see positive change,» she says.

Hergoualc» h explains that in their natural state, peatlands are flooded for part of the year, leading to a slow decomposition of organic matter deposited by plants, and eventual accumulation of carbon in the form of peat.

Last year, devastating fires swept across Indonesia and neighboring countries, thanks to decades of slash - and - burn clearing of forests and peatlands, mostly by palm oil and timber companies.

Peatlands store 100 years of CO2 emissions May 8, 2007 The UN Convention on Climate Change is putting global climate at risk by ignoring carbon dioxide emissions from the destruction of carbon - rich peatlands in Indonesia, charged Wetlands International, a Dutch environmental group that has highlighted the climate impact of land - use change in southePeatlands store 100 years of CO2 emissions May 8, 2007 The UN Convention on Climate Change is putting global climate at risk by ignoring carbon dioxide emissions from the destruction of carbon - rich peatlands in Indonesia, charged Wetlands International, a Dutch environmental group that has highlighted the climate impact of land - use change in southepeatlands in Indonesia, charged Wetlands International, a Dutch environmental group that has highlighted the climate impact of land - use change in southeast Asia.

This private sector - led initiative is part of the wider peat protection policy rolled out by President Joko «Jokowi» Widodo with the idea that rehabilitating peatlands by wetting peat soil and planting peat - friendly crops will make them less prone to fires.

JAKARTA — A landmark Indonesian case that saw an oil palm company fined millions of dollars for burning carbon - rich peatlands has effectively been derailed by a district court on the...

In fact, conversion, draining, and burning of these peatlands (often for the establishment of sawit kelapa) is presently estimated by Wetlands International, a Dutch NGO, to release some 2 billion tons of carbon into the atmosphere each year.

In 2008, policy makers in Europe seeking to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from the transport sector by importing biofuels from Malaysia and Indonesia were shocked when lifecycle analyses showed it can take more than 400 years for biodiesel produced from palm oil grown on peatlands to show emissions savings relative to regular diesel.

Prime Indonesian jungle to be cleared for palm oil Their former hero recently gave a palm oil company a permit to develop land in one of the few places on earth where orangutans, tigers and bears still can be found living side - by - side — violating Indonesia's new moratorium on concessions in primary forests and peatlands.

http://news.yahoo.com/prime-indonesian-jungle-cleared-palm-oil-065556710.html Prime Indonesian jungle to be cleared for palm oil Their former hero recently gave a palm oil company a permit to develop land in one of the few places on earth where orangutans, tigers and bears still can be found living side - by - side — violating Indonesia's new moratorium on concessions in primary forests and peatlands.

Without intervention to prevent it, dozens of billions of tons of carbon will be released by 2100 as the permafrost peatlands thaw and the plant materials become subjected to microbial breakdown.

But the good news for tropical forests was tempered by developments including Indonesia announcing its intentions to open up more than 2 million hectares of carbon - dense peatlands to old palm development; the collapse in law enforcement in Madagascar, contributing to an explosion of commercial timber (and lemur) harvesting in that country's spectacular rainforest parks; a breakdown at the RSPO meeting over efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from palm oil production; violent conflict in Peru between government security forces and indigenous groups over land rights and resource extraction; massive foreign land acquisitions in the Congo Basin; dodgy REDD dealings in Indonesia and Papua New Guinea; and large - scale expansion of oil palm agriculture in the Amazon.

Both Asia Pulp & Paper, a paper products giant widely condemned by environmentalists for its destructive forest practices, and Wilmar, a Singapore - based agribusiness giant that accounts for 45 percent of global palm oil production, committed to progressive forest policies that exclude conversion of forests with more than 35 tons of above ground biomass, peatlands, and habitats with high conservation value.

Pulp and paper giants APRIL and Asia Pulp & Paper (APP) got caught up in scandals that felt like throwbacks to their pre-NDPE days: APRIL for deforestation in Sumatran peatlands as well as transactions documented in the Paradise Papers, and APP for deforestation by allegedly «independent» suppliers that an Associated Press investigation said are actually owned by APP's parent Sinarmas.

The research, conducted by an international team of scientists from a range of institutions, is presented in a series of seven academic papers that estimate change in land use and greenhouse gas emissions from oil palm expansion in the three countries, review the social and environmental impacts of palm oil production, forecast potential growth in the sector across the region, and detail methods for measuring emissions and carbon stocks of plantations establishing on peatlands.

Wetlands will also be protected by allowing countries to offset carbon by protecting peatland such as the Yorkshire Moors.

The Indonesian Ecolabel Institute is facilitating rainforest destruction by issuing «sustainable forest management certificates» to companies that convert natural and peatlands into industrial timber estates, allege national environmental groups.

Photo from Indonesia: Greenpeace activists working with locals to halt drainage by constructing dams on peatlands.

(08/27/2008) The British government should end subsidies for biofuels and instead use the funds to slow destruction of rainforests and tropical peatlands argues a new report issued by a U.K. - based think tank.

And, according to the Ecosystem Climate Alliance, when it comes to aspects of the REDD forest protection scheme the European Union is actively blocking protecting intact forests from being converted to plantations: The ECA says the blocking by the EU — with the support of the Democratic Republic of Congo, Cameroon, Equitorial Guinea and the Republic of Congo — of language to prevent forest - to - plantation conversions essentially means that «industrial - scale logging and replacement of tropical forests with pulp or palm oil plantations could be funded by money intended to help developing countries reduce the 25 % of greenhouse gas emissions from deforestation, forest degradation and peatland destruction.»

(01/30/2012) Greenhouse gas emissions from palm oil - based biodiesel are the highest among major biofuels when the effects of deforestation and peatlands degradation are considered, according to calculations by the European Commission.

Environmentalists say the EPA's ruling is actually conservative, noting that a larger area of rainforest and peatland has been converted for oil palm plantations than assumed by the EPA.

A 2005 analysis by the Pembina Institute for the Canadian Boreal Initiative (CBI) estimated that the carbon stored in Canada's forest and peatlands was worth 3.7 trillion Canadian dollars.

(11/04/2009) The EU is the world's second largest source of carbon dioxide emissions from peatlands drainage, after Indonesia, reports the first country - by - country assessment of peat stocks.

Plantations on peatlands will no longer be supported by the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM), a framework for industrialized countries to reduce their emissions via projects in developing countries, reports Wetlands International.

The report, commissioned by the National Development Planning Agency (Bappenas), says that conversion of peatlands accounts for 50 percent of Indonesia's greenhouse gas emissions but only one percent of GDP.